Monochrome Foliage
You Si
游思
Production date
2004
Object Detail
Media
acrylic ink on rice paper
Measurements
247.5 x 124 cm
Notes
Having spent twenty years living in the United States before he returned to China, You Si has fused the technique of traditional Chinese painting with influences from western abstract painting. A bold use of kaleidoscopic colours and patterns on rice paper characterises his large mural paintings, which are filled with gigantic flowers, mysterious organisms, swirls and distorted body parts. Here, uncharacteristically subdued, subtle shades of sepia dominate – swirls, curlicues and fern-like fronds appear to wave as if underwater, a microcosmic universe.
Accession number
2013.212