Suddenly Autumn (in Birch Forest)
This is the roughly translated title of this piece
Title Information | | Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
| jīng | Sudden |
| qiū | Autumn / Fall |
This is a very popular piece according to the artists. This one is somewhere between fantasy and
reality as with most paintings by this team of artists. Several cranes are enjoying a very peaceful Autumn day in a colorful birch forest scene.
The idea of "jīng" is beyond the idea of "suddenly" it is more as if Autumn came by "surprise" with a burst of color in this scene.
This is painted on special xuan paper (rice paper) with then mounted with a silk border.
Shipped to you in ready-to-frame condition.
This hand-painted artwork is from the
Xiao Meng Asian Art Collection
The artists of this collection are actually a married couple who travel around China together looking for subjects to paint. Their real names are Chen Yong Ping and Chen Wei Ling but they sign all of their work under the single pen name Xiao Meng.
They work as a team on most of these paintings. One of them does the background and the other will handle the detail work on each painting.
The artists take great pride in the fact that they have developed their own unique painting style which they call "hazy painting" (this is roughly translated - it sounds better in Chinese).
They use a combination of "freehand style" and "elaborate style" in their paintings. The background is done using broad fast strokes and spray with very thin paint. The foreground (cranes) are done with a lot of detail using a delicate technique with a very fine brush.
