Arts & Entertainment
Ridgefield Library Announces ARTalk with Dr. Karen S. Hwang
Art Historian Dr. Karen S. Hwang will present an illustrated talk about Chinese landscape painting on November 20.
From the Ridgefield Library:
Ridgefield Library & the Ridgefield Guild of Artists present:
ARTalk with Dr. Karen S. Hwang
- Chinese Landscape Painting from an Angle of Totality
- Sunday, November 20 at 2pm
- Please register.
Why has landscape endured as the most highly esteemed subject in Chinese painting? Why did the greatest masters prefer the medium of ink-and-water and its shades of grey for painting the colors of nature? Why did Chinese painters study nature from an "angle of totality" eschewing one-point perspective so celebrated in Western traditions? Art Historian Dr. Karen S. Hwang will address these and other questions in an illustrated talk about Chinese landscape painting.
Dr. Hwang received her Ph.D in the History of Art and Architecture from Harvard University where she focused on the arts of the Buddhist caves along the Silk Road. She has taught at Vassar College, Wellesley College and (as a teaching fellow) at Harvard University.
Image via the Ridgefield Library
