Biography

b. 1962 in Hualien, Taiwan

 

Peng Kanglong is a literati-recluse artist who paints in the traditional landscape and flower genres. Having graduated from the Taipei National University of the Arts in 1988 with a focus on Chinese brush and ink painting, his major stylistic influences include the 17th century Monk artists Shitao (1642-1707) and Kuncan (1612 to after 1674), as well as the Modern landscape master Huang Binhong (1865-1955).

 

In the long history of Chinese brush and ink painting, landscape and flower painting are two distinct genres with their own metaphoric languages, painting techniques, representative masters and developmental histories. With the possible exception of Huang Binhong (1865-1955), Peng Kanglong is perhaps the first ink artist to explore the artistic possibilities of integrating these formerly separate genres. Whereas Huang Binhong's artistic breakthrough employs the brushwork of flower painting to transform landscape painting, Peng Kanglong works in the reverse direction employing the fine texture strokes and expansive compositional depth of landscape painting to render his extraordinary flowers.

 

Beginning in 2020, Peng Kanglong undertook an exploration of monumental compositional forms inspired by the Northern Song landscape. Combining the compositional scale of the Imperial landscape of the Northern Song with the expressive, autographic brushwork of the Yuan literati became an artistic goal of landscape painters in the periods that followed such as Shen Zhou (1427-1509) and Dong Qichang (1555-1636) of the Ming Dynasty, Wang Hui (1632-1717) and Gong Xian (1618-1689) of the Qing Dynasty and Huang Binhong of the Modern period. What distinguishes Peng Kanglong's "Grand Synthesis" is his integration not just of composition and brushwork from the Song and Yuan-Ming-Qing periods but also his simultaneous cross-integration of the encompassing landscape and flower genres.

 

Peng Kanglong's works have been recently exhibited in "Grand Synthesis: The Extraordinary Flower-Landscapes of Peng Kanglong", INKstudio, Beijing (2023),  "Many Splendored Spring", New York Asia Week, New York (2023), "Feast of Verdure", The Historical Grand Courtyard, Taipei (2021), "Mukuteki", The Museum of Kyoto, Japan (2019), "Different Paths: Exploration in Ink", Sotheby's S|2, Hong Kong (2017), and "Shuimo: Ten Thousand Blossoms Spring", Sotheby's S|2, New York (2015) amongst others. His work can be found in the permanent collections of the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Art, the Taipei Fine Art Museum, the Fubon Cultural & Educational Foundation, the Abu Dhabi Royal Family Collection, and the Fondation INK Collection in Geneva, Switzerland.

Works
  • Peng Kanglong 彭康隆, Coiling Dragons in the Clouds 雲虯, 2022
    Coiling Dragons in the Clouds 雲虯, 2022
  • Peng Kanglong 彭康隆, Jade Inlaid Vermilion Sky 彤天栽玉, 2022
    Jade Inlaid Vermilion Sky 彤天栽玉, 2022
  • Peng Kanglong 彭康隆, Splendid Flowers Valley 锦绣万花谷, 2022
    Splendid Flowers Valley 锦绣万花谷, 2022
  • Peng Kanglong 彭康隆, Before the Rainstorm 密云不雨, 2020
    Before the Rainstorm 密云不雨, 2020
  • Peng Kanglong 彭康隆, Brimming Urn 盈缶, 2020
    Brimming Urn 盈缶, 2020
  • Peng Kanglong 彭康隆, Contained Virtues 含章可貞, 2020
    Contained Virtues 含章可貞, 2020
  • Peng Kanglong 彭康隆, Difficulty in Moving Forward 往蹇, 2020
    Difficulty in Moving Forward 往蹇, 2020
  • Peng Kanglong 彭康隆, Golden Beauty 金姹, 2020
    Golden Beauty 金姹, 2020
  • Peng Kanglong 彭康隆, The Withered Poplar Blossoms-1 枯杨生华-1 , 2020
    The Withered Poplar Blossoms-1 枯杨生华-1 , 2020
  • Peng Kanglong 彭康隆, The Withered Poplar Blossoms-12 枯楊生華-12 , 2020
    The Withered Poplar Blossoms-12 枯楊生華-12 , 2020
  • Peng Kanglong 彭康隆, Night Raid 夜袭, 2019
    Night Raid 夜袭, 2019
  • Peng Kanglong 彭康隆, Toon 香椿, 2017
    Toon 香椿, 2017
  • Peng Kanglong 彭康隆, Wild Garden with Peonies and Vines 亂花之牡丹與藤蔓, 2008
    Wild Garden with Peonies and Vines 亂花之牡丹與藤蔓, 2008
  • Peng Kanglong 彭康隆, Intermittent Landscape Handscroll 段段续续山水长卷, 2005
    Intermittent Landscape Handscroll 段段续续山水长卷, 2005
  • Peng Kanglong 彭康隆, Light Excursion 轻旅, 2005
    Light Excursion 轻旅, 2005
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