| "Ten Thousand Plum Blossoms Studio" by Professor Chow. As a native of Suzhou, Professor Chow was deeply influenced by the art of the Wu school from an early age. His early paintings, distinguished by the use of steady and smooth brushwork as well as a celestial atmospheric presence, conveyed a strong sense of the Wu style and conformed to the aesthetic ideal of the literati. As he gradually developed his own technique, his work surpassed the meticulousness characteristic of the Wu school. Instead of adapting a traditional format of landscape painting, he created a unique style with a semi-abstract expression intent on exploring the fluid movement of ink and each painting's intellectual and emotional elements. |
