Huang Yan
Chinese Landscape–Tattoo 6

Chinese Landscape–Tattoo 6
Chinese Landscape–Tattoo 6
Chinese Landscape–Tattoo 6
ArtistChinese, born 1966
CultureChinese
Titles
  • Chinese Landscape–Tattoo 6
  • from the series Chinese Landscape–Tattoo 6
Date1999
MediumChromogenic print
DimensionsFrame: 35 × 45 3/4 × 1 3/8 in. (88.9 × 116.2 × 3.5 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the S. I. Morris Photography Endowment
Object number2007.27
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description

The body is the
canvas for the painter and poet Huang Yang. Here, he first covered a model’s
torso with white powder, then painted a landscape of ink in the manner of the literati, the historical Chinese
scholar-artists. The expressive brushstrokes were characteristic of the
Southern School of Chinese painting.



In China, the body emerged as the primary medium
of contemporary Chinese art in the 1980s. Huang Yang dynamically transforms the
art of the past into the present by translating a two-dimensional painting
style onto a three-dimensional body.


Provenance[LIMN Gallery, San Francisco]; purchased by MFAH, 2007.
Exhibition History"Texas Collects Asia: Contemporary," The Trammell & Margaret Crow Collection of Asian Art, Dallas, October 18, 2008–January 6, 2009.

"Ruptures and Continuities: Photography Made after 1960 from the MFAH Collection," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, February 21–May 9, 2010.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Marked in silver pen on recto lower right: "(signature?) 1/12 ... (?). 1979."
Signature in Chinese characters in silver ink on recto lower right. (photo in TMS media file and photocopy in Acc. file)

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