LO CH'ING (b.1948) The Sun also Rises, 2016LO CH'ING (b.1948)The Sun also Rises, 2016Ink and colour on paper, signed and dated by the artist, framed. 180cm long x 96cm wide (70 3/4in long x 37 3/4in wide).羅青(1948年生) 太陽照常升起 設色紙本 鏡框 2016年作Born in Qingdao, Shandong Province, in 1948, Lo Ch'ing is not just a painter, but also a poet and calligrapher. He moved to Taiwan with his parents in 1949. At an early age, Lo learned classical ink painting of the court tradition from the ink painting master Pu Ru, a member of the Qing Imperial family. Subsequently he studied in the English Department of Fu Jen University, and received an MA degree in Comparative Literature from the University of Washington, Seattle, in 1974. He has been both a professor of literature and a professor of fine arts in universities in Taiwan, the United States, the United Kingdom, Prague, and mainland China. His knowledge of literature is hinted at in the title of the present lot, which is the title of Ernest Hemingway's famous first novel 'The Sun also Rises' (1926). Lo is well versed in classical Chinese literature and arts of the brush, as well as in modern and postmodern literature and art. His poems have been published and translated into many languages, and Lo Ch'ing is regarded as one of the pioneers of post-modern poetry in Taiwan. He has also been a major innovator in ink painting, for which he has created a new visual vocabulary that deconstructs the classical forms of Chinese landscape by introducing into his compositions abstract and geometric elements as well as unexpected contemporary motifs.Lo Ch'ing's paintings are in several prestigious collections worldwide including the British Museum, London; The Royal Ontario Museum, Canada; The Saint Louis Art Museum, USA; Museum fur Ostasiatische Kunst, Berlin; National Taiwan Museum; Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; and Asia Society, New York.