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Imitating "Wind in Pines Among a Myriad Valleys" by Li Tang of the Song Dynasty
Chen Chun-Hao
陳浚豪
Production date
2012
Object Detail
Media
nails on canvas on board
Measurements
264 x 195 x 7 cm
Notes
In Chen Chun-Hao’s adaptation of this misty landscape the tonal variation is created by dense clusters of nails, imitating the specks, strokes and washes of ink in Song Dunasty shan shui paintings of the beauties of the natural world. More than a million nails were needed for Imitating “Wind in Pines Among a Myriad Valleys” by Li Tang of the Song Dynasty (2012). From the collection of the National Palace Museum in Taipei, the twelfth century ink painting is dominated by dramatic, towering mountain peaks. Li Tang, who escaped to the south after the fall of the Northern Song, represents a link between Northern Song painters such as Fan Kuan, and the southern school. He perfected a particular technique of ‘axe-cut’ textured brush strokes to accurately represent rocky imaginary landscapes. With dense groupings of tiny nails, Chen Chun-Hao simulates the diagonals of square-edged brush marks on the jagged rocks in traditional Song Dynasty ink painting. Areas of blank canvas stand in for the puffs of cloud and water in the original.
Accession number
2012.004