Home of Man — Fine Art

Home of Man - 1999 opens on a field of lines and small colour patches. Wu Guanzhong built this image by thinking about water, sky and land as simple forms. The marks stay loose and the ground stays open. You look at the work and read the picture from the way the strokes stand apart.

This is a fine art print set in a frame with a back panel. The paper holds the pale ground without shine, so the thin strokes stay readable and the light colour patches do not turn harsh under a lamp.

In a reading corner the picture rests above a desk near a warm lamp. The lines lead your eye across the sheet, while the small colour notes sit quietly beside the books and the lamp.