WORKS ELABORATION：
The ink landscapes are firmly rooted in Chinese tradition whilst depict Wang’s understanding of nature figuratively. His aesthetic and the mood he had at the moment of creation are also palpable in the works. If you stare at the collection, these imposing paintings will transport you into his mysterious, boundless world.
TUTOR COMMENT：
Executed with outstanding artistic ingenuity and dexterity, Wang Jie’s Silent Mountains, Good Night brims with visual and thematic richness and grandeur. In the style of a typical Chinese ink painting, it captures at once the visual splendor and spiritual serenity of sprawling mountain ranges and torrential rivers frequently encountered in Chinese geography. On the whole, combining the artist’s real-life experiences and persistent artistic practices, this work manages to explore how the capacity to evolve and reinvent itself has always been characteristic of traditional Chinese aesthetics, thus exemplifying how it is possible for contemporary young artists to not only productively borrow from established classics, but much more importantly, to fruitfully develop the Chinese-style ink painting to accommodate the global contemporary art landscape.
