Drops of Water Wear out the Stone
Small Efforts, Grand Results —Lou Zhenggang’s Recent Paintings
Shimbata Yasuhide
Looking at the group of works before my eyes, I gasped. Painted on large and small canvases were acrylic pigments with bright white on a dark ground as the base note, images delicate yet full of vigor, flowing, leaping, dripping, surging. These paintings, composed of colors and depths created with transcendent brushwork, have a quality unlike abstract paintings from Japan or the West. ...
UPDATE February 1st, 2022
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