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Four Views of a Landscape – Summer
Catalog Entry
Su Chung-ming’s landscapes give the viewer a sense of freshness, and the same is true of Four Views of a Landscape – Summer. The circular album leaf format sets the scale of the composition. The painting captures the fine details of a mountain, focusing in on a steep cliffside. The brushwork is non-traditional and is comprised of a network of rectangular lines. When viewed up close, the lines appear highly textural, while at a distance, they form the structure of a mountain.
Su Chung-ming, Four Views of a Landscape – Summer, 2023 © Su Chung-ming
Calling to Mountains
Essay
Su Chung-ming’s landscapes leap off the paper and call to the mountains outside
Seemingly speaking a thousand words, but spoken in solemn silence
The worries of the world are lost beyond the sky
Aesthetic theorist Zong Baihua (1897–1986) introduced in An Aesthetics Anthology that the most profound sentiment in Chinese painting is “to silently be molded by and thus become one with the infinite reality of nature and space.”
Su Chung-ming, Misty Valley (detail), 2021 © Su Chung-ming