Artist: Li Meng

Dimensions: 69×69cm

Materials: Xuan Paper (a traditional Chinese handmade paper)

Creation Year: 2021

Through the lively depiction of ducklings at play in a lotus pond, the painting evokes the renewal of spring with flowers in bloom and small creatures rejoicing in the arrival of a new season. The forms are rendered with accuracy and the brushwork is both assured and effortless, achieving a vivid rhythmic vitality and a far-reaching poetic atmosphere. The artist deftly captures the dynamic qualities of birds and blossoms, conveying fleeting moments of life through the seamless integration of scene and sentiment. Beyond its vivid portrayal of nature’s interplay between motion and stillness, the painting achieves fusion of inner emotion, will, and ideal with plants, stones, birds, and fish in the natural world, achieving a unity between the self and the external world. Through lifelike form and expressive spirit, it creates a realm more evocative than reality itself, revealing the artist’s refined skill and artistic vision.