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Details
- Alternative title
- 雙禽圖
- Place where the work was made
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China
- Cultural origin
- China
- Date
- 1987
- Media categories
- Scroll , Painting
- Materials used
- ink on paper
- Dimensions
- 59.0 x 47.0 cm image; 167.8 x 59.0 cm scroll
- Signature & date
Signed and dated u.l, in Chinese, inscribed in black ink "丁卯春月 繼先墨" [In the Spring of the Dingmao year (1987) painted by Jixian], stamped in red seal, "龔" [Gong]
- Credit
- Bequest of Edmund Capon AM OBE 2023
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 193.2023
- Copyright
- © Gong Jixian
- Artist information
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Gong Jixian 龚继先
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About
Gong Jixian once said, ‘The best state of painting is to let nature take its course. I never work with any draft, either in my mind or on paper, instead I follow the brush, the line and ink, wherever they take me is where my heart goes. Paintings created like this can truly represent me’. The expressions in the eyes of the pair of birds and the inner energy executed through the strong brushwork that created their bodies attests to the artist’s spontaneous style.
Gong Jixian was born in Beijing and received his training in Chinese ink painting at the Central Academy of Fine Art. He studied flower-and-bird painting under the master painter Li Kuchan (1899–1983) who followed the spontaneous xieyi style (literally writing ideas or emotions) of Qi Baishi (1864–1957) in which apparently simple compositions appear against plain grounds.
A&L, June 2023
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Where the work was made
China