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Guanyin from Khara Khoto
ID: RP-ZJY001
Artist: Zhang Jiying
Date: 2005
Size: 71 x 26in. with mounting
Hanging Scroll, Ink and color on silk, mounted on satin, a reproduction of the Western Xia Buddhist Banner (982-1227)
Price: $ 1,200
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Biography of the Artist
Zhang Jiying was born in 1948 in Henan. She was originally trained in the genre of birds and flowers, but she also developed her own interest and her own distinctive style in the reproduction of Buddhist art. After graduating from Chengdu Fine Arts Academy in 1994, Zhang assumed a position as an illustrator in the Peoples Publishing House for Illustrated Narratives in Chengdu. She recently retired and, as an independent artist, devotes her time mostly to Buddhist figure painting. Her reproductions of Buddhist art have been collected by Chinese museums and private collectors, and are well received in Chengdu and Beijing. Buddhist paintings by Ms. Zhang from the Khara Khoto Collection, currently housed at St. Petersburg, showcase her mastery of traditional Chinese art methods. Her reproductions of Buddhist paintings can be found in our Current Offerings under Classical Chinese Paintings.
Buddhist Art from Khara Khoto This painting depicts Guanyin Bodhisattva leading a deceased soul to the Pure Land in the west, a very common theme among Buddhist devotees. Many people, Buddhist and otherwise, call upon Guanyin when facing difficulties. The portrayal of the figures also has some affinities with the Tang style (618-907) seen in the Mogao Caves at Dunhuang (Gansu) in the northwestern China, the most important repository of Buddhist cave art in the world.
This painting highlights the early Tang 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.
Buddhist Paintings offered at WEI YANG 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). We assure you that every Buddhist painting we offer was individually hand-painted by an accomplished artist who signed the work.
