Cloud Poetry VI
Yanyan Huang
黃彥彥
Production date
2018
Object Detail
Media
ink, gouache and acrylic on canvas
Measurements
240.5 x 180.5 cm
Notes
Yanyan Huang says of her dynamic abstract canvases: “I see every gesture as embodying past, present and future—a line is a single distillation of years of practicing similar lines, a brushstroke is a distillation of years of practicing similar brushstrokes.” Inflected by her art education in the USA and traditions of Euro-American abstraction as much as by xie yi ink painting, her works appear joyfully spontaneous, but this belies the deep knowledge and surety that lies behind her mark-making. Huang plays with varying viscosities and degrees of transparency, with stencilled hard-edges intersecting with her curving, fluid sweeps of lilac, crimson and green. These paintings are filled with lyrical, flowing movement. Huang told an interviewer that her art education began with her study of ballet and classical piano; she began to paint after deciding it was the closest form to music.
Accession number
2018.114