Chao Er Tai

1974

Well

POST WINGS

This piece depicts the hilly terrain with a continuous rhythm of brushstrokes, where the ink sometimes gathers and at other times dissipates, creating a rhythmic visual flow. There are no specific paths visible in the painting, yet one can feel the footsteps and echoes of a journey through the mountains, revealing that Zhao Erdai is not merely reproducing a landscape, but transforming the experience of walking into a memory captured by ink and brush. The overall composition is open rather than closed, allowing the mountain shapes to seem as though they are still in the process of formation. The work reveals the artist's late reflections on "movement" and "stillness," suggesting that the mountains are not far away, but reside in the return of one's inner landscape.

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