"Plague · spring outing"

Creator Du Meng Jie

Instructor Kitman Leong

Programme Master of Fine Arts

Major Painting Practice and Theory

Date of Creation 2022-05-04

Color(If any) Color

Theme(If any) Landscape

Material(If any) Rice paper，Traditional Chinese painting pigment

Taking Taihang Mountain as the creative background of the landscape, the characters in the painting are not the traditional image of the ancients or the image of modern tourists, but wearing ancient clothes and hair, doing the behavior of modern people, taking photos, walking dogs, riding bicycles, operating drones, etc., which makes the picture have a sense of contrast. The creative idea is that the ancients did the life behavior of modern people in modern society and also wore masks under the epidemic situation. The creation of landscape is based on Taihang Mountain. Instead of spreading the color with the color of Taihang Mountain, it selects the green color. It is intended to wish that after the epidemic is unsealed, people will see the landscape with warm flowers in spring and full of green.

"Plague · spring outing" The composition of landscape works is different from the traditional perspective. And the expression form of the mountain is also different from that in most traditional landscape paintings. Most of them are growing vertically. In this work, I restore the mountain texture of Taihang Mountain. And depict the location of the mountains. The composition is centered on the two mountains connected by a bridge. The composition of the landscape is viewed from the perspective of the player.