Mountains Clearing after Rain
Zhang's exposure to Western abstract art played a crucial role in the development of his new style. His acquaintance with Zao Wou-ki (b. 1921), a Chinese expatriate painter working in Paris, was particularly important. In the early 1950s Zao often saturated his canvases with overlapping layers of color onto which he would draw houses, boats, and other figurative motifs. His integration of the abstract with the figurative and the sense of atmospheric expansiveness through nuanced use of color may have inspired Zhang Daqian's splashed painting in both concept and approach.
Artwork Details
- 現代 張大千 峰晴隔雨圖 軸
- Title: Mountains Clearing after Rain
- Artist: Chang Dai-chien (Chinese, 1899–1983)
- Date: ca. 1965–70
- Culture: China
- Medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper
- Dimensions: Image: 36 1/2 x 16 7/8 in. (92.7 x 42.9 cm)
- Classification: Paintings
- Credit Line: The Lin Yutang Family Collection, Gift of Hsiang Ju Lin, in memory of Taiyi Lin Lai, 2005
- Object Number: 2005.510.5
- Curatorial Department: Asian Art
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