{"id":40,"date":"2007-06-14T15:00:26","date_gmt":"2007-06-14T22:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/14\/watercolors-of-yan-pei-ming\/"},"modified":"2007-06-14T15:00:26","modified_gmt":"2007-06-14T22:00:26","slug":"watercolors-of-yan-pei-ming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/14\/watercolors-of-yan-pei-ming\/","title":{"rendered":"Watercolors of Yan Pei-Ming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Yan Pei-Ming\" title=\"Yan Pei-Ming\" src=\"http:\/\/ambriente.com\/blog\/images\/2007\/pei_ming1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, I stepped into David Zwirner not expecting to see anything exciting, but as I turned the corner of the initial gallery, I was taken aback by the gigantic, beautiful watercolors of Yan Pei-Ming.\u00c2\u00a0 The first gallery had one huge oil painting, which had good energy, but wasn&#8217;t anything particularly exciting, but the 5 by 9 foot watercolors on paper organized in grids that gave them context and even greater heroic scale than the individual oil paintings are great!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Yan Pei-Ming\" title=\"Yan Pei-Ming\" src=\"http:\/\/ambriente.com\/blog\/images\/2007\/pei_ming2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Part of what I love about these are the exact draftsmanship from a distance and the abstraction formed by the droplets and pools of watercolor as one approaches the paintings.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Yan Pei-Ming\" title=\"Yan Pei-Ming\" src=\"http:\/\/ambriente.com\/blog\/images\/2007\/pei_ming3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I think that painting is most exciting when abstraction is collapsed into graphic representation to create rich textures which these watercolors accomplish.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Yan Pei-Ming\" title=\"Yan Pei-Ming\" src=\"http:\/\/ambriente.com\/blog\/images\/2007\/pei_ming4.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I also enjoy new takes on portraiture that present political or social undertones, in this case reflections of social and civic power.\u00c2\u00a0  <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Yan Pei-Ming at David Zwirner\" href=\"http:\/\/www.davidzwirner.com\/exhibitions\/134\/index.htm\">Yan Pei-Mings paintings at David Zwirner<\/a> come down this weekend.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Yan Pei-Ming\" title=\"Yan Pei-Ming\" src=\"http:\/\/ambriente.com\/blog\/images\/2007\/pei_ming5.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I stepped into David Zwirner not expecting to see anything exciting, but as I turned the corner of the initial gallery, I was taken aback by the gigantic, beautiful watercolors of Yan Pei-Ming.\u00c2\u00a0 The first gallery had one huge oil painting, which had good energy, but wasn&#8217;t anything particularly exciting, but the 5 by [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fine_arts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}