Beautiful Summer 2002

Huang Yongyu made this piece, Beautiful Summer, with ink and color on paper, and it’s all about that juicy process. Check out how Yongyu lets the ink bleed and bloom. It's like watching a summer storm roll in. The dark, wet marks create these moody, almost abstract shapes, while the pops of red jolt you awake. It's a dance between control and letting go. I’m thinking particularly about the confident black brushstrokes that describe the foliage. It's like he's wrestling with the paper, coaxing the image out of it, not imposing it. The cranes feel a bit like twins of color from his earlier work. There’s a bit of Franz Kline here, but with a Chinese whisper. Like art is just one big conversation happening across time and space. Ultimately it’s about the ambiguity and multiple interpretations that make art so engaging.