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The Red Tide Landscape, Na Wei, 2014

Bamboo and Tide (Jiang Shan) Landscape No.2 and No.3 (竹潮江山图 第二号和第三号) by Na Wei (那危). 2016.

An award-winning artist, Na Wei (那危) is a native of Northern China. He earned both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts in Shenyang, China, where he was a student of oil painting. Na has been creating and exhibiting works worldwide for over ten years.

Many of Na Wei’s recent works are connected to the tradition of Chinese landscape painting, from which he derives some inspiration. In his landscapes, Na utilises primary colors - muted blues and yellows contrast the bright, bold red of his waves. These serve to accentuate further the largely monochromatic bamboo, as well as the other details of the natural environment. The stripes that cut across the surface are created with a silk-screening technique, providing a grid through which the landscape must be viewed. Na, in abstracting historically familiar subject matter, employs the concept of xieyi - freehand calligraphic brushwork that emphasises resemblance in spirit, rather than reality - paradoxically departing from and returning to the traditional.