“The sun and the moon of the peach blossom spring” Chinese Ink Painting by Lo Ch’ing Lecture: The Wildly Colorful Ink Paintings of Lo Ch’ing March 7, 2018 4PM CADVC Alfreda Murck, author of Poetry and Painting in Song China, The Subtle Art of Dissent and previous Associate Curator of Asian Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art will present a lecture on the work of Lo Ch’ing, the Poet-Painter. The lecture places the artist in the context of the millennia-long tradition of Chinese Landscape Painting and coincides with the CADVC exhibition, The Poet’s Brush: Chinese Ink Paintings by Lo Ch’ing. About Lo Ch’ing Lo Ch’ing was born in 1948 in Shandong Province, China. His family moved to Taiwan in 1949. He showed promise as a painter from a young age and began formally studying Chinese ink painting as a young teenager. He graduated from the English Department of Fu Jen Catholic University in Taipei in 1972 and earned an MA in comparative literature at the University of Washington, Seattle in 1974. Lo has had a prestigious literary and artistic career in Taiwan, beginning with his first collection of poems, Ways to Eat a Watermelon, which won a national poetry award in 1974. He has taught English and American literature at Furen University and Taiwan Normal University and has been editor of several literary art journals. He began to exhibit his art in 1980, and since then has had dozens of solo and group shows in Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, the US and Europe. He is a celebrated painter, poet and calligrapher and recognized as one of a handful of Chinese painters who have reinvigorated Chinese ink painting for contemporary audiences. He lives in Taiwan with his wife, an artist in her own right, and has two grown sons. About Jason C. Kuo Jason C. Kuo is Professor of Art History and Archaeology at the University of Maryland and has taught at the National Taiwan University, Williams College, and Yale University. His numerous publications include: The Austere Landscape: The Paintings of Hung-jen, Transforming Traditions in Modern Chinese Painting: Huang Pin-hung’s Late Work, and The Inner Landscape: The Paintings of Gao Xingjian. He edited the volumes Visual Culture in Shanghai, 1850s-1930s; Perspectives on Connoisseurship of Chinese Painting; and Stones from Other Mountains: Chinese Painting Studies in Postwar America. About Alfreda Murck Alfreda Murck is a historian of Chinese visual culture. She relocated last year to New York after living seventeen years in Beijing. In China, she was a consultant to the Palace Museum in the Forbidden City and a researcher at their Painting and Calligraphy Research Center. She taught graduate students at the Central Academy of Fine Arts and Peking University. Major exhibitions to which she contributed include The Three Emperors, 1662-1795 at the Royal Academy, London, Eccentric Visions: The Worlds of Luo Ping (1733-1799) at the Museum Reitberg, Zurich, and the Metropolitan Museum; and Mao’s Golden Mangoes and the Cultural Revolution, also at The Museum Rietberg. This fall “Mao’s Golden Mangoes” is being shown at The China Institute, New York. She authored Poetry and Painting in Song China: The Subtle Art of Dissent (Harvard, 2000). She has published numerous articles in English and Chinese on China’s visual arts and poetry. In Beijing Alfreda formed a collection of 20th century vernacular Chinese teapots now in the British Museum and a collection of printed cotton quilt covers dating from 1959 to the early 1980s now in the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem. Prior to living in Asia, Alfreda was Associate Curator of Asian Art at The Metropolitan Museum. She received her PhD from Princeton University.
