Nocturnal Melody 20 l Contemporary Painting by Hongyu Zhang

Nocturnal Melody 20 is an artwork by Chinese contemporary artist Hongyu Zhang from the “Nocturnal Melody” series.

This night scene is of a group of horses emerging out from a dark background. In this series’ of medium-sized paintings, that the artist initially entitled: ‘Souvenirs’ (‘Memories’), Zhang Hongyu draws from his childhood visions on the plains of Inner Mongolia, where the silence and darkness of the night were disrupted only by the appearance of the horses and their galloping noise.

With a great minimal use of colour and an impressive technical brilliance, Hongyu Zhang manages to capture the fleeting beauty of this apparition. Through engraving, he sketches out the silhouette of the beast, carving out the canvas surface (a cardboard panel). This method – a legacy from his traditional Chinese calligraphy training – is the fundamental part of his art: he uses it to give both energy and elegance to the galloping horses. The artist then applies colour using different techniques: ink, pastel and acrylic paint. The artist also uses a silverly ink with shiny reflections.

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