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Summer, from the series The Four Seasons
2008
29 3/8 x 31 1/2 in. (74.68 x 80.01 cm)
Huang Yan (Jilin, Jilin Province, China, 1966 - ) Primary
Initial Public Offering: New Works from SJMA’s Permanent Collection, March 1, 2014 - August 24, 2014, New Wing, First floor, Gibson Family Gallery and Plaza Gallery, San José Museum of Art.
Initial Public Offering: New Works from SJMA’s Permanent Collection (2014)
Internationally acclaimed artist Huang Yan is best known for photographs of his face painted with traditional Chinese landscapes. These deceptively simple images actually encompass numerous media: painting, the human body, performance, and photography. His series “The Four Seasons” has sparked lively critical debate as to the nature of his art. Is it the body itself? The painting on the body? The act of painting on the body? Or the final photograph?
“The Four Seasons” is part of the ongoing series “Body Landscape.” Each work features a new landscape. Fall and Summer both reference tenth-century landscape painting from the Tang Dynasty—considered the golden age of China’s long history by many of today's Chinese. Here, Huang embraced traditional Tang Dynasty landscape painting as a visual signifier of China's shared culture.
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Summer, from the series The Four Seasons
Photograph
200829 3/8 x 31 1/2 in. (74.68 x 80.01 cm)
Huang Yan (Jilin, Jilin Province, China, 1966 - ) Primary
Object Type: Photograph
Medium and Support: Chromogenic print on paper
Credit Line: Museum purchase with funds contributed by Tad Freese and the Acquisitions Committee
Accession Number: 2013.10.02
Exhibition
Initial Public Offering: New Works from SJMA’s Permanent Collection, March 1, 2014 - August 24, 2014, New Wing, First floor, Gibson Family Gallery and Plaza Gallery, San José Museum of Art.
SJMA Label Text
Initial Public Offering: New Works from SJMA’s Permanent Collection (2014)
Internationally acclaimed artist Huang Yan is best known for photographs of his face painted with traditional Chinese landscapes. These deceptively simple images actually encompass numerous media: painting, the human body, performance, and photography. His series “The Four Seasons” has sparked lively critical debate as to the nature of his art. Is it the body itself? The painting on the body? The act of painting on the body? Or the final photograph?
“The Four Seasons” is part of the ongoing series “Body Landscape.” Each work features a new landscape. Fall and Summer both reference tenth-century landscape painting from the Tang Dynasty—considered the golden age of China’s long history by many of today's Chinese. Here, Huang embraced traditional Tang Dynasty landscape painting as a visual signifier of China's shared culture.
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- Image Dimensions: 29 3/8 x 31 1/2 in. (74.68 x 80.01 cm)
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