Viewing the City’s Places of Interest in Springtime
Artist
Yao Lu
(Chinese. b. 1967 Beijing China, born 1967)
Date2007
MediumChromogenic print
DimensionsImage (circle print on square support): 26 3/4 × 26 3/4 in. (67.9 × 67.9 cm)
Support (at trim marks): 31 1/2 × 31 1/2 in. (80 × 80 cm)
Support (full support, still needs trimmed): 35 3/8 × 35 3/8 in. (89.9 × 89.9 cm)
Support (at trim marks): 31 1/2 × 31 1/2 in. (80 × 80 cm)
Support (full support, still needs trimmed): 35 3/8 × 35 3/8 in. (89.9 × 89.9 cm)
ClassificationsPhotograph
Credit LineGift of Benda Edelson, 2021
Object number2022.1.5
DescriptionCircular composition primarily filled with dark landscape, top 1/8 is beige sky with red chop at center. Dark mountain range in background, single peak in foreground with some vegetation and trees. Landscape covered in netting, broken chunks of concrete in middle- and foreground.eMuseum Notes
Chinese artist Yao Lu's series “New Landscapes Part 1” expresses his concern about the impact of China’s rapid urbanization and industrialization. Lu underscores the tensions between traditional and contemporary Chinese values by borrowing the formats and styles of ancient Chinese painting and then working digitally to create new scenes populated by small figures. What appear at first glance to be scenic mountains are instead enlarged construction sites covered in green netting. The environmental and cultural message is applicable globally, raising questions about the hidden costs of accelerated development and change.
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Eliot Porter
1972 (printed 1977)
