Untitled - Seascape
Ding Li
丁力
Production date
2013
Object Detail
Media
oil on canvas
Measurements
60 x 80 cm
Notes
On his return to China from studies in Paris, Ding Li began to re-assemble his earlier works, juxtaposing multiple paintings to become single artworks, breaking the original composition and visual balance, aiming to develop a new visual language. Later, he expanded his practice to include photography and computer graphics and developed collages that combined painting and installation. In 2017, he returned to oil painting, his most familiar medium, and his focus became the brush-stroke. Ding's work is based on repeated experiments with the expressive possibilities of paint, creating a new and idiosyncratic visual language of form that draws on popular culture as much as upon traditions of portraiture in western art history. Using oil paint, spray paints, various brushes and frames in novel and somewhat tongue-in-cheek ways, Ding Li references the world of street art, computer graphics, and contemporary design. Here, he juxtaposes the language of Chinese literati shan shui painting with the idiom of the Romantic painters and their love of dramatic seascapes.
Accession number
2013.229