Lotus at Night
Huang Yongyu absorbed the diverse styles he encountered while working for a newspaper in Hong Kong. He first earned a reputation as a woodblock artist. After the 1960s he concentrated on painting, using a wide variety of materials.
Lotus at Night combines the painterly values of abstract expressionism with Chinese elements of gestural art and the reduction of an image to felt essentials. Huang's broad experimentation, like that of the generation that is succeeding him in China, is a natural response to a vast array of new choices.
Lotus at Night combines the painterly values of abstract expressionism with Chinese elements of gestural art and the reduction of an image to felt essentials. Huang's broad experimentation, like that of the generation that is succeeding him in China, is a natural response to a vast array of new choices.
Artwork Details
- 近代 黃永玉 夜荷圖 軸
- Title: Lotus at Night
- Artist: Huang Yongyu (Chinese, born 1924)
- Date: dated 1979
- Culture: China
- Medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper
- Dimensions: 59 1/2 x 22 5/8 in. (151.1 x 57.5 cm)
- Classification: Paintings
- Credit Line: Gift of Robert Hatfield Ellsworth, in memory of La Ferne Hatfield Ellsworth, 1986
- Object Number: 1986.267.436
- Curatorial Department: Asian Art
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