Hong Kong - Paintings

Inspired by the song cycle by Franz Schubert. The wanderer is also a reflection of human’s soul. Clementine believes in the power of colour and the pow...

A tribute to the world renowned Iranian movie director and poet Abbas Kiarostami. Tree recalls the colour and scene in his movie The Wind Will Carry Us. The tree is a symbol of life ...

White Crow is a 2020 landscape work with a protagonist bird, the white crow by Maki Kuchida. This work demonstrates Maki's delicate painting skills with a lot of details in one work. She applied aluminum leaf on this work to create a perspective in the background. Maki combines the Japanese landscape painting technique with the Chinese one thus her landscape work is unique in its own way. White Crow is the bird of fortune and peace in the Japanese culture. On the bottom right, shadows of another mascot, coyote, can be seen. Coyote is one of Maki's favorite icons which can be found in many of her landscape paintings. The painted size of the work is approx. 27 x 18cm, while the framed size is approx. 47x38cm. It is framed with archival grade mount. There will be a certificate of authenticity issued with your acquisition. Maki's paintings may seem deceptively simple at first but indeed the colors and texture are achieved through a labor-intensive and time-consuming process as painting on silk for one color requires at least 8 layers of pigments. Maki paints using mineral pigments on silk...

Senkichiro Nasaka (1923-2014) WORK Mixed media on paper 34 x 22 cm (13.4 x 8.7 in) not considering the frame Executed in 1962 The present work is one of the few paintings pre-dating Senkichiro Nasaka’s affiliation to the Gutai Group. The particular choice of means and technique, inspired by Senkichiro Nasaka’s mastery of both Japanese and Western painting, conveys the semblance of geological accretions, and clearly adheres to Jiro Yoshihara’s motto: “create what has never been done before” About the Artist: Born in Osaka Prefecture in 1923, in 1942 Senkichiro Nasaka entered the Kyoto City Painting University. where he was a contemporary of Kazuo Shiraga. In 1960s he made a career switch from Japanese traditional painting to Western style oil painting, creating works under the influence of the informel style. In 1965 Nasaka presented his work to the 15th Gutai Art...

Senkichiro Nasaka (1923-2014) WORK Mixed media on paper 53 x 37 cm ( 20 ⁷/₈ x 14 ⁹/₁₆ in) not considering the frame Executed in 1963 Signed and dated in the reverse The present work is one of the few paintings pre-dating Senkichiro Nasaka’s affiliation to the Gutai Group. The particular choice of means and technique, inspired by Senkichiro Nasaka’s mastery of both Japanese and Western painting, conveys the semblance of geological accretions, and clearly adheres to Jiro Yoshihara’s motto: “create what has never been done before” About the Artist: Born in Osaka Prefecture in 1923, in 1942 Senkichiro Nasaka entered the Kyoto City Painting University. where he was a contemporary of Kazuo Shiraga. In 1960s he made a career switch from Japanese traditional painting to Western style oil painting, creating works under the influence of the informel style. In 1965 Nasaka presented his work to the 15th Gutai Art...

Sadamasa Motonaga (1922-2011) Untitled Executed in 1984 Acrylic on canvas 33.6 x 24.6 cm (13 ¹/₄ x 9 ¹¹/₁₆ in) not considering the frame Signed an...

Sadamasa Motonaga (1922-2011) The Circle, Triangle, and Green Executed in 1989 Acrylic on canvas 91.0 x 72.7 cm (35 ⁵³/₆₄ x 28 ⁵/₈ in) not consider...

Sadamasa Motonaga (1922-2011) LIKE A STAIRWAY Executed in 1985 Acrylic on canvas 31.8 x 40.9 cm (12 1/2 x 16 1/8 in) not considering the frame Si...

Crescendo is from Francesco's signature Dyssomnia Series: "Deep in the night where the painter is not sleeping, being a musician, instead of writing songs, he starts to capture the m...

"Where Mountains are not Mountains" is Buddhist saying, in front of the mountains, sometimes you don't see them (covered by clouds or mist) and they will appear again. Just be patien...

A little girl watching a white horse from a distance. It seems so close yet so far away. Touchable and yet untouchable, like our dreams in life. Clementine believes in the power of ...