TITLE: Four Seasons – Winter
MEDIUM: Oil on Canvas
DATE: 2000
SIZE: 48 x 36 in
PRICE: Please Inquire
Our Lui Liu gallery is pleased to offer this stunning Lui Liu painting Four Seasons – Winter, from the Four Seasons Series. Part of a series of canvases each representing a season, “Winter” shows a more traditional side to Lui Liu’s body of work. Utilizing tradition Chinese themes and iconography, the painting depicts two women, a white faced maid and a matronly servant traveling through an austere mountain landscape. Dangling from the servant’s hand are three masks, a common symbol found not only in Lui Liu’s art but generally in Contemporary Chinese art.
The mask is a powerful symbol throughout various cultures and histories. It represents the isolation of an emotional state. For example in the Italian Comedia, each mask or face represents a specific archetype. Each mask is seen as a portal into a character generally harnessing a single emotional vibration. In Contemporary Chinese painting, the incorporation of the mask, sometimes represented as a painted white face, is interestingly reversed as an omission of emotion. The painted face or mask is seen as concealing one’s true emotional state, an emotional camouflage that allows the subject to fake social compliance. It seems a unique referendum on both contemporary Chinese culture and politics.
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