After Shitao's Landscape Album: Shitao–Van Gogh, from the series Ongoing Shan Shui
Zhang Hongtu, After Shitao's Landscape Album: Shitao–Van Gogh, from the series Ongoing Shan Shui, 2002, oil on canvas, Gift of Judith B. Anderson, © Zhang Hongtu, 2017.31.1
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- Title
After Shitao's Landscape Album: Shitao–Van Gogh, from the series Ongoing Shan Shui
- Related Titles
original language: 倣石濤山水畵冊, 石濤–梵高
series (original language): 山水再製系列
series (translated): Ongoing Shan Shui
series (transliterated): Shanshui zaizhi xilie
translated: After Shitao's Landscape Album: Shitao–Van Gogh
transliterated: Fang Shitao shanshuihuace, Shitao-Fangao
- Artist
- Related People
inspired by: Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, active France, 1853-1890)
- Date
2002
- Medium
oil on canvas
- Dimensions (H x W x D)
48 in x 36 in
- Collection Area
Asian Art; Modern and Contemporary Art
- Category
Paintings
- Object Type
painting
- Culture
Chinese
- Credit Line
Gift of Judith B. Anderson
- Accession Number
2017.31.1
- Copyright
© Zhang Hongtu
- Terms
- Location
Zhang's Ongoing Shan Shui series, a project spanning several years, explores categories of "East" and "West" in a distinctive way, reflecting his own life lived in two cultures. Here, he reimagines an album leaf by the great seventeenth-century artist Shitao—a small work in ink on paper—in the brilliant colors and brushwork of the Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh.
At the top, Zhang faithfully recorded the inscription and seals of Shitao's original painting. At left, he added his own comments: "If Shitao's original painting is a night landscape, then I apologize. What my mind wanted to do was paint a bright Shitao. Shitao painted as he liked, so I am also, like Shitao, painting as I wish."
- Exhibitions
2018 Straddling Borders, Embracing Cross-Cultural Identities Portland Art Museum
2023 Throughlines: Connections in the Collection Portland Art Museum
