The Return

Hong Zhu An is a renowned modern ink painter whose artistic career reached a breakthrough in its evolution after he migrated to Singapore in 1993. Before that, he spent a few years as an exile in Australia after leaving China in the late 1980s. Since the 1990s, Hong has become one of the most significant ink painters in the Singapore art scene. The painting 归 (The Return) was created in 1993 soon after the artist settled in Singapore. Completed with the watercolour medium, the sketchy representation of the landscape scene by loose and spontaneous brushstrokes indicates the aesthetic qualities of the xieyi (idea-writing) style of ink painting that are in line with Hong’s early ink practice.

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