Goddess Crossing the Xiang River – (Fu Baoshi) ◄ Previous Next ►

Artist: Fu Baoshi

Size: 164 x 83 cm

Technique: Paper

Fu’s original conception of the goddess of the Xiang River was based on two poetic lines from the Nine Songs: Gently the wind of autumn whispers;On the waves of the Dongting Lake the leaves are falling. As his style became increasingly forceful and vigorous in the 1960s, Fu introduced a new sense of monumentality to this theme, exploring the creative tension between the all-powerful forces of nature and delicate human emotion.