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Description:
The color print depicts an aviary for birds and fantastical amphibian-like figures held in abeyance beneath a grouping of speakers floating in the sky. Yun-Fei Ji's painting style, a contemporary form of traditional Chinese landscape painting, is softened in this printed work by the use of tertiary tones and graphite passages. His imagery often depicts the insidious modernization of China and the destruction left in its wake. Yun-Fei Ji came to the LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies in the Spring of 2007 to work on a project that incorporated subject matter from his large-scale watercolors and smaller graphite drawings.

Label Text:
Yun-Fei Ji came to the LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies in the Spring of 2007 to work on a project that incorporated subject matter from his large-scale watercolors and smaller graphite drawings. On The High Branches depicts an aviary for birds and fantastical amphibian-like figures held in abeyance beneath a grouping of speakers floating in the sky. Yun-Fei Ji's painting style, a contemporary form of traditional Chinese landscape painting, is softened in this printed work by the use of tertiary tones and graphite passages. His imagery often depicts the insidious modernization of China and the destruction left in its wake.

Tags:
animals; anthropomorphic; birds; creatures; flowers; landscapes; musical instruments; nature; plants; fantasy

Subjects:
Musical instruments; Nature; Plants; Animals; Birds; Fantasy; Flowers; Landscapes; Lithography

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