How Liang Kai paints with metaphor

"He’s playing on the idea of the deceptive nature of what can be seen on the surface."

"He's playing on the idea of the deceptive nature of what can be seen on the surface."

Curator Shi-yee Liu on "Poet strolling by a marshy bank," a painting by Liang Kai.

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Shi-yee Liu
Assistant Research Curator of Chinese Art, Department of Asian Art

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Poet strolling by a marshy bank, Liang Kai  Chinese, Fan mounted as an album leaf; ink on silk, China
Liang Kai
early 13th century