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Buddhist Painting from Dunhuang
Gao Peng, 1988, 72 x 35 in. Ink and color on paper, mounted on satin, ready for framing.
$5, 000
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Artist and His Painting
Gao Peng's talent for art was initially recognized by his father, Dr. Gao Zhenyuan, who is an amateur calligrapher. Dr. Gao started to give his son preliminary training in calligraphy when he was still in kindergarten. Even now his former high school teachers still chide him for trying to use drawings rather than compositions in all of his school projects. Gao was trained to be professional artist specializing in reproducing Buddhist paintings in the Dunhuang caves. His early mentors included the distinguished Professor Duan Wenjie (formerDirector of the Dunhuang Research Academy), Li Qiqiun, Wan Guangyu, and Ouyang Lin. After several years of on-site training, Gao’s talent for capturing the subtlety of Buddhist images was recognized by the Research Academy. Gao was sent to the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing to receive further education in classical Chinese painting in 1984. After his graduation in 1988, he returned to Dunhuang and was appointed as senior professional artist. His Buddhist paintings inspired by Dunhuang Buddhist art have received worldwide recognition and have been exhibited in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, France, Japan, and elsewhere.He is currently a professional artist iin the Art Research Institute at the Dunhuang Academy, Dunhuang, Gansu, China..
This painting is a gem in WEI YANG CHINESE ART collection. It highlights the Sui (581-618) artistic style preserved in the Dunhuang Buddhist cave-temples. It achieves an exquisite synthesis of foreign influences balanced with Chinese aesthetic values. The painting is unique in its combination of a rich floral motif, jewelry ornamentation, and vegetable vocabulary. The dark skin of the subject is the result of the oxidization of mineral pigments used in coloring.
Buy this painting, you buy expertise, value and beauty. We assure you that every Buddhist painting we offer was individually hand-painted by an accomplished artist who signed the work. Buddhist Paintings offered at WEI YANG CHINESE ART consists of the highest-quality hand-painted Buddhist paintings from the Silk Road. Most of our Buddhist paintings are based on wall paintings in the Mogao Caves at Dunhuang (Gansu province) in northwestern China. They were painted by the school-trained professional artsits currently employed by Dunhuang Research Academy. We also offer Buddhist paintings in the styles of famous ancient Buddhist art currently held in the British Museum (London), the Musée Guimet (Paris), and the Hermitage Museum (St. Petersburg).
