Jiyou Liu: Manchurian Tigers

Artist: Liu Jiyou
1918 -
Nationality: Chinese
Artwork Year: 1979
Image Size: 13.625 by 15.25 inches
Overall Size: 13.625 by 15.875 inches
Medium: Water Color on Rice Paper

In Chinese legend, it is said that an artist one day painted a horse so vividly that it galloped off the page. This delightful story illustrates why so many people around the world love and admire Chinese painting. Because it is so fresh, so swift and clear in statement, that it seems to possess a life of its own. And many are the artists that have tried, over the centuries, to capture the rare spirit that moves the tiger's strike. But only a few artists have explored the mystery of the tiger in a fresh, intriguing way. Such an artist today is Liu Jiyou, one of China's greatest living masters. A feeling of movement, spontaneity, and freedom from confinement -- essential in great Chinese painting -- are particularly clear in the paintings by Liu Jiyou who has captured the tiger, emblem of strength and courage in Chinese legend. Seeking to understand and record the essence of the tiger's silent presence, rather than his external appearance, Liu Jiyou worked from his imagination formed by sketches and memory. The result is this painting with beauty so mysterious that one can keep rediscovering it over and over again.

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