Artwork Description

Mo Xiong
Flowers, n.d.
ink and watercolour on paper
50 works, each 27.6 × 53.1 in. (70 × 135 cm)

This extensive series comprises fifty large-scale floral compositions, each depicting an exuberant bouquet arranged within a vase and rendered in dynamic ink and watercolour. Across the series, compositions are unified by their vertical emphasis, vibrant chromatic contrasts, and energetic surface treatment, in which blossoms appear to surge outward through layered pigment and gestural brushwork.

The artist employs a synthesis of traditional Chinese xieyi brush idioms with Western modernist approaches to colour and abstraction. While each work maintains compositional autonomy, the series as a whole reveals a consistent exploration of rhythm, spontaneity, and chromatic orchestration. The result is a sustained meditation on floral form as both subject and painterly structure.

The series engages with the longstanding symbolic role of flowers in Chinese visual culture, where they signify renewal, abundance, and seasonal transformation. Here, these associations are expanded through serial repetition and variation, reinforcing the expressive and conceptual scope of the motif within a contemporary context.

All works are in very good condition, with stable supports and well-preserved pigments. No restoration is recorded. Provenance: documentation can be provided upon request.