スミソニアン博物館さんのインスタグラム写真 - (スミソニアン博物館Instagram)「One artist, two museum collections. We’re celebrating the reopening of @WomenInTheArts on Oct. 21 by highlighting artworks by painter and mixed media artist Hung Liu. Born in China, Liu moved to the U.S. in the 1980s where she established her career as both an artist and educator. During a trip back to China in the early 1990s, Liu became fascinated with turn of the 20th century commercial-studio photographs she happened upon. Those photographs inspired a new era of her work, and she began to incorporate these characters into her paintings. In the first image is Liu’s “Winter with Cynical Fish” from @WomenInTheArts, which is part of a series of paintings that each represent one of the four seasons. The fish in “Winter” shows Liu’s reference to satirical imagery from paintings by Bada Shanren, the famous Chinese artist and calligrapher. In the second image is Liu's “The Ocean is the Dragon’s World” from @AmericanArt, depicting Dowager Empress Cixi, known to be a powerful and fierce leader, based on early 1900s photos. Liu’s interpretation emphasizes the opulence of material goods to symbolize her power, but also includes a birdcage to represent that she, “was still in the cage, no matter how powerful a woman she was.”」10月18日 1時10分