Kaowen 考文


kaowen_monkmala_lg (75K)
Creator.Personal Name: 考文.
Creator.Personal Name: Kaowen.
Creator.Role: painter.
Title: [Untitled: monk and flowers]
Description: hanging scroll; ink and color on paper; inscribed and signed by artist; one artist's seals.
Subject: Buddhist monks.
Type: Scroll (Visual work)--Chinese.
Type: Genre paintings--Chinese.
Type: Watercolors--Chinese.
Culture: Chinese.
Style.Period: Contemporary.
Technique: painting.
Material.Medium: ink.
Material.Support: paper.
Measurements: 21 x 38 in.
Location.Current Repository: private collection, C. J. Campbell (Chicago, Ill.)
Rights: C. J. Campbell.
Record Type: work.
kaowen_plumblossomsinvase (66K)
kaowen_plumblossomsinvase_poem (71K)
Detail: poem
Creator.Personal Name: 考文.
Creator.Personal Name: Kaowen.
Creator.Role: painter.
Title: [Untitled: plum blossoms in a vase]
Description: hanging scroll; ink on paper; poem inscribed by Wu Feng 吳風; unsigned; seven artist's seals.
Date.Creation: 2002
Subject: Flowers.
Type: Scroll (Visual work)--Chinese--2002.
Type: Genre paintings--Chinese--2002.
Type: Watercolors--Chinese.
Culture: Chinese.
Style.Period: Contemporary.
Technique: painting.
Material.Medium: ink.
Material.Support: paper.
Measurements: 20 x 21 in.
Location.Current Repository: private collection, C. J. Campbell (Chicago, Ill.)
Rights: C. J. Campbell
Record Type: work.

Translation of text: "Inscription on Painted Plums" Li Fangying 題畫梅─李方膺

Brandish a brush upon paper, ink marks are fresh;
Many dots of plum blossoms--extremely charming.
Willing to take advantage of Heaven's winds blowing afar,
To every home in the neighbourhood, spring is come.

揮毫落紙墨痕新
幾點梅花最可人
願藉天風吹得遠
家家門巷盡成春
Chinese Traditional Painting