Ink

Beautiful landscape ink drawing of mountains and a river from the 1980s by artist Kan Kit-Keung The tight cropping of the frame creates an asymmetrical balance that is popular in many Eastern inspired works. Kan Kit-Keung uses flat shapes, which look like ‘cut-out’ forms, to evoke the solidity of mountains, hills and mounds. Many of these forms are modulated from light to dark in tone, so that they read concurrently as flat and as three dimensional.

Kan Kit-Keung is simultaneously a physicist and a devoted painter. He had received training in traditional Chinese ink painting from noted masters including the exponent of the Lingnan School of Painting, Gao Qifeng, after his move to Hong Kong in 1957. His subsequent move to the United States for further study in physics helped nurture new artistic ideas.

H 42 in. x W 81.5 in. x D 1.5 in.