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DiaporamaThe Yellow Mountains (Huangshan)
1980
139.0 x 67.0 cm
li huasheng (? – ?)
Discover Li Huasheng (1944–2018), a renowned Chinese artist celebrated for traditional ink paintings. Explore his landscapes & cultural impact.
Li Huasheng made this impressionistic image of the Heavenly Capital Peak (Tiandu feng) of the Yellow Mountains (Huangshan) after he visited the site in 1980. Though Li’s sketchbooks from that time indicate that he found Huangshan inspiring, the inscription on this painting reveals his discomfort with the rise of tourism and the economic inequality it brought with it. The poem reads (in part):Thousands of steps climbing to Heaven’s gate.Tourists sit around, suffering from food too rich;In the workers’ mouths: dry biscuit crumbs,Their calloused hands painfully drawing water from the mountain stream,Their dark sleeves sweat-drenched, by their own salt whitened.— Translation after Jerome Silbergeld and Gong Jisui
About this artwork
- Title: The Yellow Mountains (Huangshan)
- Artist: li huasheng
- Year: 1980
- Original dimensions: 139.0 x 67.0 cm
- Format: Tall
- Copyright status: Under copyright
- Color palette: Neutrals
- Color hue: Green Spectrum
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