ZHUANGZI 莊子自在
This pattern depicts details from HKMoA’s priceless ink and color painting “Zhuangzi” (莊子自在) by world-revered Chinese contemporary master artist Lui Shou-kwan (呂壽琨).
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Zhuangzi (莊子自在)
1974
Ink and colour on paper
139 x 70 cm
Collection of Hong Kong Museum of Art
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Zhuangzi continues Lui Shou-kwan’s Zen-infused reimagination of the lotus flower. A splash of red rises from the ink in the form of a butterfly, alluding to the classic tale of Zhuang Zhou dreaming of being a butterfly, where one becomes free of preconceptions and transcends into union with nature. Here, the painting and the painter were unified as Zen paintings grew to be an inseparable part of Lui’s spiritual expression.
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*This collection is collaborated by the Hong Kong Museum of Art and SPARKLE COLLECTION.
