“We're All Ghosts. We All Carry, Inside Us, People Who Came Before Us.” ~ Liam Callanan, The Cloud Atlas

Zhang Xiaogang is a contemporary Chinese symbolist and surrealist painter. Paintings in his Bloodline series are predominantly monochromatic, stylised portraits of Chinese people, usually with large, dark-pupiled eyes, posed in a stiff manner deliberately reminiscent of family portraits from the 1950s and 1960s.

A great example of his art is "Girl and Tree - Planche No. 13".

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Girl and Tree - Planche No. 13 belongs to the set of twenty lithographs from The Storyteller's Enchantments of Zhang Xiaogang. The lithographs were inspired by old family photos and represent Xiaogang's Family and Bloodlines series, where the artist explores the concept of family and collectivism in Chinese society.

Medium: Lithograph on paper, typewritten poem by Fernando Arrabal in three languages on verso, signed by the artist

Edition: 130

Year: 2009

Size:
Image: 120.0cm x 80.0cm
Framed: 140.0cm x 105.0cm x 7.0cm