[Digital Exhibition 網上展覽] Clouds of Ink, Pools of Colour: Paintings by Hou Beiren 墨雲彩池：侯北人畫展

[Digital Exhibition 網上展覽] Clouds of Ink, Pools of Colour: Paintings by Hou Beiren 墨雲彩池：侯北人畫展 “Clouds of Ink, Pools of Colour: Paintings by Hou Beiren” ExhibitionThe Chinese ink painter Hou Beiren has lived and worked in northern California for the last sixty years. "Clouds of Ink, Pools of Colour: Paintings by Hou Beiren" is the first exhibition of his splashed ink landscape paintings in Hong Kong.Splashed ink painting can be traced to the Tang (618–907) and Southern Song (1127–1279) dynasties. After the fourteenth century, with changes in artistic taste, literati brushwork and painting dominated. But splashed ink remained popular in Japan, in ink wash painting of the Muromachi Period (1333–1578).In the 1950s, splashed ink experienced a revival at the hands of the great Chinese painter Zhang Daqian (1899–1983) who saw in it a response to the Abstract Expressionist paintwork then prevalent in Western modernist art. Zhang personally inspired Hou, who has since developed his splashed ink landscape painting into his own unique painting idiom.Hou’s landscapes rework the tropes of the traditional literati Chinese landscape, combining animated vortices of ink with swathes of colour into atmospheric meditations on both the practise of ink painting and the inheritance of traditional ink painting.The Hong Kong University Museum and Art Gallery wishes to gratefully acknowledge the support and cooperation of the Hou Beiren Art Gallery (侯北人美術館) in Kunshan, Jiangsu province in arranging and lending this exhibition.View the virtual exhibition here: https://tipeslowly.github.io/HBR/過去六十載，中國水墨大師侯北人一直在北加州居住與工作。《墨雲彩池：侯北人畫展》是香港首個展示侯北人的潑墨山水畫的展覽。潑墨畫源自唐代 (六一八至九零七) 和南宋 (一一二七至一二七九) 的山水畫。十四世紀後，潑墨畫雖因着文人品味愛好的轉變和文人畫的興起而衰落，但潑墨技法卻得傳於日本室町時代 (一三三三至一五七八) 的墨染畫。上世紀五十年代，國畫大師張大千 (一八九九至一九八三) 復興了潑墨畫，並以此為回應風靡西方現代藝術的抽象表現主義之藝術手法。侯北人深受張大千啟發，自此孜孜不倦地鑽研繪畫潑墨山水畫，最終自成一家。侯北人筆下的山水畫重塑了傳統中國文人山水的意象，糅合一抹抹鮮艷奪目的色彩和如漩渦流動般朝氣勃勃的水墨，將之融入對創作水墨和傳承傳統水墨畫的獨特沈思之中。香港大學美術博物館衷心感謝江蘇省崑山市侯北人美術館的大力支持，惠借館藏及合作籌辦是次展覽。 Date/Time: 01/07/2025 to 30/06/2026 00:00-23:59 Venue: Online Organized by: University Museum and Art Gallery

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