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  • Spring in Wuling (detail)
  • Spring in Wuling (detail)
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Spring in Wuling

  • Description

    Ho Fung-lin studied painting under the prominent Lingnan School artist Zhao Shao’ang (1905-1998). Her painting style emulates Zhao’s principles of innovation within tradition, and she writes on contemporary Chinese art with particular reference to the Lingnan School. She is expressive in her use of colour as well as ink. By varying the tones of ink she is able to achieve a colourful composition. Her paintings often include her own poetry.

    The subject of this painting is the ‘Peach Blossom Spring’, a famous literary episode in which a scholar comes across an idyllic land inhabited by people of China’s distant golden age. This poem is the artist’s own composition and it reads ‘Amid misty spring cloud and pale mountains, the landscape of Wuling fills this world. Countless peach blossoms bloom on both banks, with the help of the fishing boat, I hope to travel it every day.’

  • Details

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    Associated place
    Asia › China (place of creation)
    Date
    1999
    Artist/maker
    Ho Fung-lin (born 1944) (artist)
    Ho Fung-lin (born 1944) (calligrapher)
    after Tao Yuanming (died AD 427) (author)
    Material and technique
    ink and colour on paper
    Dimensions
    mount 45.5 x 181 cm (height x width)
    painting 30.5 x 131.5 cm (height x width)
    Material index
    processed material › paper
    Technique index
    decorated › painted,
    painted,
    covered › coated › painted,
    marked › painted,
    drawn (image) › line drawing › brush drawing
    Object type index
    visual representation › painting,
    visual representation › scroll,
    visual representation › calligraphy,
    communications equipment › art/writing equipment › scroll
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Presented by Ho Fung-lin, 1999.
    Accession no.
    EA1999.43

  • Further reading

    Vainker, Shelagh, Chinese Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2000), no. 38 on p. 63, illus. pp. 62-63 fig. 38

Past Exhibition

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Location

    • currently in research collection

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Publications online

  • Chinese Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford by Shelagh Vainker

    Chinese Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

    Ho Fung-Lin studied undet the prominent Lingnan School artist Zhao Shao'ang (1905-1998; see Reyes Catalogue). As well as painting in accordance with Zhao's principles of innovation within tradition, she writes on contemporary Chinese art with particular reference to the Lingnan School. Her paintings often include her own poetry. The subject of the painting is 'Peach Blossom Spring', a famous literary episode in which a scholar comes across an idyllic land inhabited by people of China's distant golden age. This poem is the artist's own composition.

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