Yang Yongliang's works
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Title
Yang Yongliang's works
Subject
Yang Yongliang; Digital print; Chinese landscape
Description
The digital prints of contemporary Chinese artist Yang Yongliang.
Creator
Alexandra Mickle
Source
yangyongliang.com
Publisher
Yang Yongliang
Date
2006-2014
Rights
© Yang Yongliang
Format
Digital Print
Language
Chinese
Type
Still Image
Collection Items
Phantom Landscape II - No. 1
The composition of this work was taken from Qu Ding’s "Summer Mountains", a hand scroll from the Northern Song Dynasty. With this recognizable infusion of history, the work expresses an apocalyptic foreboding for the China of today
Phantom Landscape II - No. 3
The imagery and composition for this work was taken from Xu Daoning’s Fisherman’s Evening Song, a Northern Song hand scroll.
View of Tide
This composite photograph takes the form of a panoramic handscroll that presents a succession of towering mountains wreathed in mist and surrounded by expanses of open water. But upon closer examination, the majestic mountains are revealed to be…
Travelers Among Mountains and Streams
Yang Yongliang's reinterpretation of Fan Kuan's work of the same title.
Horse Training
This print comes from the Peach Blossom Colony series, which was Yang’s initial foray into placing human figures into his works, using actors as stand-ins for members of the literati class. Rather that attempting to recreate a landscape painting,…
The Mind Landscape of Xie Youyu
An example from the Peach Blossom Colony series, this work follows in the style of Zhao Mengfu’s handscroll of the same title. The subject of the scene is Xie Youyu, a scholar-official who is portrayed seated across from a stream in a landscape of…
Artificial Wonderland 1
This work Artificial Wonderland takes reference from Yan Wengui’s Buildings Among Mountains and Rivers from the Song Dynasty. Yang’s work reinterprets the landscape of the old master, following the traditional mode of referencing past works.
Viridescence No. 2
The second print in a larger series, Viridescence focuses specifically on the short lived tradition of blue-green landscape painting, that emphasized bright, vivid hues of blue and green. This work shows Yang Yongliang experimenting with the…
Phantom Landscape I No. 1
The earliest of Yang’s works in the exhibition, this piece represents the beginnings of Yang’s stylistic experimentation. In viewing his earlier work, it becomes apparent how his later works more strongly exemplify the aesthetic and emotional…
Artificial Wonderland 2
This print is the second in the Artificial Wonderland series and is an example of the vertical landscape style. In this work, Yang has copied the imagery of the traditional master but has removed all of the calligraphic elements. By removing the…