Any visit to the Art Gallery of New South Wales gives one something to ponder, if you’re the pondering kind. Here Liu. Jianhua’s take on celadon and Ox Blood glazes, the Container Series 2009, suggest that they a full of blood, and that are hollow under the meniscus of glaze. Of course the impulse to turn them upside down to check their construction is not on. But then there is that view, the distant cranes, the long roofline of the pier, the dry meadow of long grasses, each with its own ambiguous connection to the Chinese classics.
Any visit to the Art Gallery of New South Wales gives one something to ponder, if you’re the pondering kind. Here Liu. Jianhua’s take on celadon and Ox Blood glazes, the Container Series 2009, suggest that they a full of blood, and that are hollow under the meniscus of glaze. Of course the impulse to turn them upside down to check their construction is not on. But then there is that view, the distant cranes, the long roofline of the pier, the dry meadow of long grasses, each with its own ambiguous connection to the Chinese classics.
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