Bird-and-flower painting: An introduction to a traditional Chinese art
Professor Zhang Yongjing, Nankai University
11am, Thursday 25 November
Online lecture via Zoom.
Registration required: https://uofglasgow.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0rceGsrzguGdH91uGZduFLTYTImkZYzROp
Among the various forms of traditional Chinese painting is so-called bird-and flower painting, which considers vignettes of such subjects as flowers, birds, insects and fish. This lecture will use classical examples of the genre to consider its modes of conception and expression. It will introduce how the use of the brush and ink on paper produces lively and vivid images of birds and flowers and discuss the insight gained by painting from nature in this form.
Professor Zhang Yongjing currently teaches in the Department of Oriental Arts in Nankai University. She obtained her masters degree in Chinese painting from Tianjin University. Her works vary in subject, giving full play to the freehand brushwork of traditional Chinese painting and have been praised as “delicately graphic and vividly expressive”. Her bird-and-flower paintings have been exhibited from the late 1970s and acquired by collectors and organizations both at home and abroad. She has been the recipient of various awards, including from the First Minority Nationality Arts Exhibition and the Lu Xun Literature and Arts Prize. Her studio name is “Nanyelu”, or “Cottage of the Southern Wilds”.
This presentation will be delivered in Chinese with English translation.
First published: 16 November 2021
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