Woman Artist Depicts Spiritual Landscapes

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Chinese artist Meng Liping shows an obsession with the line in her several series of paintings.

She explores the possibilities of the line as a basic component of painting by outlining various shapes on different types of paper. She uses pen, black and color pencils and carbon pens to present the flowbility and complexity of the line. The intricate details in her works reveal a feminine sensibility.

Valley, Lattice and Detector, Meng's solo exhibition now on at Beijing's Ici Labas gallery through March 9, brings together 40 paintings she produced between 2008 and 2015.

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Her brushwork had rendered the line a strong feeling of rhythm. In some paintings, the lines extend out in a comfortable manner to remind the audience of a peaceful horizon one would see at the seaside; in other works, the lines circle and layer to reveal the rise and fall in one's emotion.

Meng also revisits the motifs of classic landscapes and crossed lines. She juxtaposes them in one painting to examine the Eastern and Western cultural traditions. Two of her such paintings are in the collection of British Museum in London.

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