| In
this part, six subjects among the many Huang Yao painted were selected
to demonstrate how the research resulting in notes and sketches were
developed into paintings. These six were some of his favorite subjects
where he had repeatedly returned to paint in different styles and
sometimes on different types of paper. The first three subjects were
specifically chosen because Huang Yao himself had written about how
he created them in his muyuen suibi articles that were published in
the local newspaper. Not all the paintings that Huang Yao had done
on these six topics are included here, only a sample was selected
to demonstrate the varieties of styles available. In general there
appears to be a progression for the works to look like calligraphy
of picture words in the early stages, but ended up later as paintings
representing these words. Some subjects like "Fu,
Lu, So" and the zen poems were more calligraphic while "San
Yang Kai Tai" and "Long",
the dragon were paintings even from the start. "Bai
Niao Chao Feng" and "Wan
Xiang Geng Xin" began with being calligraphic pieces, but
because the subject matters were bird and elephant, they later became
strictly paintings. As the research into the pictographs brought Huang
Yao to examine the lifestyles of the primitive men, it was not surprising
some of the paintings especially those for the dragon had some resemblance
to those of the cave drawings. |
