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Zhang Yunling
Zhang Yunling is of the Naxi ethnic group from Lijang in the Yunnan province of China. Born in 1955, he has devoted himself to the study of the Naxi culture and art through his painting and his depictions of Naxi, the only living pictographic language in the world. Since 1987, he has exhibited his works in China, Japan, France, South Korea and the United States. One of his paintings is in the collection of the Japanese royal family. He teaches at various universities in the city of Kumming. His lithographs produced at Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts were made while he was a visiting artist/professor at Whitman College on a Freeman East Asia Grant.
Zhang Yunling is of the Naxi ethnic group from Lijang in the Yunnan province of China. Born in 1955, he has devoted himself to the study of the Naxi culture and art through his painting and his depictions of Naxi, the only living pictographic language in the world. Since 1987, he has exhibited his works in China, Japan, France, South Korea and the United States. One of his paintings is in the collection of the Japanese royal family. He teaches at various universities in the city of Kumming. His lithographs produced at Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts were made while he was a visiting artist/professor at Whitman College on a Freeman East Asia Grant.
Ancient Naxi Landscape: Ploughing with Deer
A five-color lithograph on Kitakata
Edition 20
$500
paper size: 10 3/8'' x 16 7/8''
CSP 03-103; collaborating printer, Frank Janzen, TMP
Untitled
A five-color lithograph on Kitakata
Edition 20
$500
paper size: 10 3/8'' x 16 7/8''
CSP 03-104; collaborating printer, Frank Janzen, TMP; NOTE: A translation of the Naxi pictographic text into Mandarin and English is provided and is printed on Kitakata paper.
translation to CSP 03-104 (untitled)
Kitakata