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Mao Yan — Reflection in a Night Scene (Studio)
Mao Yan

Reflection in a Night Scene (Studio)

2021

A 2021 oil on canvas by Mao Yan in which the artist employs a reduced palette of cool gray and blue tones to render a landscape view at once familiar and uncanny. Mao Yan is known for atmospheric studies of portraiture and interior space; here, the studio motif becomes a site for investigating memory, solitude, and the psychology of the artist at work. Soft gradations of light and shadow pull the scene toward abstraction without ever relinquishing representational pull.

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions

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Mao Yan, Reflection in a Night Scene (Studio), 2021

A 2021 oil on canvas by Mao Yan in which the artist employs a reduced palette of cool gray and blue tones to render a landscape view at once familiar and uncanny. Mao Yan is known for atmospheric studies of portraiture and interior space; here, the studio motif becomes a site for investigating memory, solitude, and the psychology of the artist at work. Soft gradations of light and shadow pull the scene toward abstraction without ever relinquishing representational pull.

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
150 x 100 cm
Year
2021
Seen at
Pace Gallery, New York, USA

Related themes

Mid-Career, Atmospheric, Psychological, Male Artist, Cool Tones, Nocturnal, Chinese Artist, Introspection, Representation, Interior, Realism, Monochromatic, Artist Space, Studio, Memory, Chinese, Figurative, Oil on Canvas, Contemporary

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