Wu Changan 吳長安

wangchangan_photo (24K)Wu Changan is a retired art professor. He taught Chinese painting for 25 years. Some of his works illustrate the "splashed ink" technique whereby details are added after ink has been randomly splashed on paper, thus transforming the work into an evocative landscape.


wuchangan_landscape_lg (61K)
Creator. Personal Name: 吳長安
Creator.Personal Name: Wu Changan.
Creator.Role: painter.
Title: [Untitled: landscape]
Description: hanging scroll; ink and color on paper; signed by the artist; one artist's seal.
Date.Created: 2004.
Subject: Mountains.
Subject: Rivers.
Type: Scroll (Visual work)--Chinese.
Type: Landscape paintings--Chinese.
Type: Watercolors--Chinese.
Culture: Chinese.
Style.Period: Contemporary.
Technique: painting.
Material.Medium: ink.
Material.Support: paper.
Measurements: 19 x 20.5 in.
Location.Current Repository: private collection, C. J. Campbell (Chicago, Ill.)
Rights: C. J. Campbell.
Record Type: work.
wuchangan_landscape2_lg (55K)
Creator. Personal Name: 吳長安
Creator.Personal Name: Wu Changan.
Creator.Role: painter.
Title: [Untitled: landscape]
Description: hanging scroll; ink and color on paper; signed by the artist; one artist's seal.
Date.Created: 2004.
Subject: Mountains.
Subject: Rivers.
Type: Scroll (Visual work)--Chinese.
Type: Landscape paintings--Chinese.
Type: Watercolors--Chinese.
Culture: Chinese.
Style.Period: Contemporary.
Technique: painting.
Material.Medium: ink.
Material.Support: paper.
Measurements: 19.5 x 20.5 in.
Location.Current Repository: private collection, C. J. Campbell (Chicago, Ill.)
Rights: C. J. Campbell.
Record Type: work.
wuchangan_livingbythewaterfall (60K)
Creator. Personal Name: 吳長安
Creator.Personal Name: Wu Changan.
Creator.Role: painter.
Title: Living by the waterfall.
Description: hanging scroll; ink and color on paper; signed by the artist; two artist's seals.
Date.Created: 2004.
Subject: Mountains.
Subject: Rivers.
Type: Scroll (Visual work)--Chinese.
Type: Landscape paintings--Chinese.
Type: Watercolors--Chinese.
Culture: Chinese.
Style.Period: Contemporary.
Technique: painting.
Material.Medium: ink.
Material.Support: paper.
Measurements: 26 3/8 x 26 3/8 in.
Location.Current Repository: private collection, C. J. Campbell (Chicago, Ill.)
Rights: C. J. Campbell.
Record Type: work.
wuchangan_cloudscovermountains (27K)
Creator. Personal Name: 吳長安
Creator.Personal Name: Wu Changan.
Creator.Role: painter.
Title: Clouds cover the mountains.
Description: hanging scroll; ink on paper; signed by the artist; one artist's seal.
Subject: Mountains.
Type: Scroll (Visual work)--Chinese.
Type: Landscape paintings--Chinese.
Type: Watercolors--Chinese.
Culture: Chinese.
Style.Period: Contemporary.
Technique: painting.
Material.Medium: ink.
Material.Support: paper.
Measurements: 13 x 26 in.
Location.Current Repository: private collection, C. J. Campbell (Chicago, Ill.)
Rights: C. J. Campbell.
Record Type: work.
Chinese Traditional Painting