Germán Ceballos
潮 “Tide” title unconfirmed
Germán Ceballos has been with Xiang Li Art through the museum days, the openings and the long build-up to the Empresses collection — one of the people whose steady support made the work possible.
Xiang paints him standing in the sea rather than beside it, holding a lotus the way somebody else would hold a torch.
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What is in this painting
Xiang Li builds a portrait out of creatures. Each one is a claim about the person sitting among them.
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1 The title seal
One character in the top right corner, cut like a seal: tide.
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2 The lotus
Held at the center of the painting. It grows out of mud and comes up clean — the oldest compliment in Chinese art.
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3 The two waves
Breaking on both sides of him and not touching him.
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4 The gulls
Five of them, crossing the top of the silk in both directions.
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5 The checked scarf
Ordinary cloth, painted with the same care as the sea.
