This is a Horse Chinese scroll painting in the truest sense — horses, caught mid-motion, painted to be lived with. The horse has always been a favorite subject, and you can see why — it carries the whole scroll. You'll notice willow and colorful gongbi woven through the composition, giving the eye somewhere to wander.
As a colorful gongbi horse painting, it sits comfortably alongside much older pieces without feeling like a copy. The willow is farewell and suppleness — it bends in every wind, in the old visual language of Chinese painting. The coloring is lively, varied color, in the mineral-pigment manner that ages gracefully. Negative space does half the work — the empty silk around willow lets the subject breathe. The tall format is no accident — the composition is built to be read downward.
Decent light, a clear stretch of wall — that is the whole installation manual. A horse silk wall art like this brings a settled, scholarly feeling to any room.
