Wu Hao: Holiday Tiger, 1964 Woodcut (46 x 81 cm) @ the Collection of Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts Whil
Wu Hao: Holiday Tiger, 1964 Woodcut (46 x 81 cm) @ the Collection of Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts While many realistic contemporary painters at the time specialized in classical painting styles for tigers, Wu Hao takes another approach with his tiger that makes you think it is not a man performing tiger, as it should be in the festival occasion, but the tiger itself emerging from the man. Remarkable is also the tail that winds around at the rump like a snake before emerging in a curved loop almost touching as it leaves the solid body of the tiger. The lack of ferocity of this tiger is also emphasized by its cat whiskers and the ba-kua trigrams of which only two are visible on the forehead of the tiger. -- source link
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