Matthew Wong : the realm of appearances

Book 2022

Self-taught artist Matthew Wong (1984-2019) painted intimate landscapes that recall Post-Impressionism, Fauvism, seventeenth-century Qing period ink painting, and contemporary artists he admired, including Philip Guston (1913-1980), Yayoi Kusama (b. 1929), Joan Mitchell (1925-1992), and Bob Thompson (1937-1966). Matthew Wong: The Realm of Appearances offers the first formal survey of Wong's six-year painting career that began in Hong Kong and mat...

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Wong, Matthew, 1984-2019 Exhibitions

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ISBN:

9780300266863

Description:

127 pages : colour illustrations ; 30 cm

Other Title:

Realm of appearances

Notes:

Canadiana
Includes bibliographical references (page 125)
Catalog of an exhibition organized by the Dallas Museum of Art, and held there October 16, 2022-February 19, 2023

Contents:

Director's foreword / Agustín Arteaga
The realm of appearances: the abstract reality of Matthew Wong / Vivian Li
Inside/outside: Matthew Higgs on the legacy of Matthew Wong / Matthew Higgs with Vivian Li
What the paint does: a technical examination of Matthew Wong's approach to painting / Laura Eva Hartman
Finding a place in the world: Matthew Wong's exploration of ink / Lesley Ma
"We need a mirror": the poetic cinema of Matthew Wong / Hilde Nelson
Plates
Selected writings by Matthew Wong
Matthew Wong: a chronology / Veronica Myers
Bibliography

LCCN:

2022910426

Control Number:

3228844

Other Authors:

Arteaga, Agustín, contributor
Hartman, Laura Eva, contributor
Higgs, Matthew, contributor
Li, Vivian Yan, 1981- editor, contributor
Ma, Lesley, 1980- contributor
Myers, Veronica, contributor
Nelson, Hilde, contributor
Wong, Matthew, 1984-2019, artist

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