Wei Xiong Unaltered Landscapes - (Hardcover)

About the Book

The paintings of Wei Xiong are exuberant, mythic and boundless in their expansiveness and energy. Working with an alternately muted and sometimes bold and colorful palette, Xiang poses a series of questions within these mostly large-scale oil paintings - questions about mortality, our connectivity to the earth, and our often complex relationship to

Book Synopsis

The paintings of Wei Xiong's 'Unaltered Landscapes' are exuberant, mythic and boundless in their expansiveness and energy. Working with an alternately muted and sometimes bold and colorful palette, Xiong poses a series of questions within these mostly large-scale oil paintings - questions about mortality, our connectivity to the earth, and our often-complex relationship to the divine.

Review Quotes

"The paintings of Wei Xiong's 'Unaltered Landscapes' book are exuberant, mythic, and boundless in their expansiveness and energy. - Eve Wood Art Critic and Writer

"Working with an alternately muted and sometimes bold and colorful palette, Xiong poses a series of questions within these mostly large-scale oil paintings - questions about mortality, our connectivity to the earth, and our often-complex relationship to the divine." - Eve Wood Art Critic and Writer

"Atmospheric drifts of colors seeping through wet spaces, floating poetic messages as coursing streams changing to transcendental shifts that are evocations of earlier conveyances." - Amir Bey Art Journalist

"Muted flamboyant fires, subtle densities, and permeating tones flash soft fires in rising dashes. In Wei Xiong, we can see how ancient Chinese artists, were writers, whose calligraphy was the basis for traditional Chinese art."- Amir Bey Art Journalist