A Hundred Ducks

Painting

Global Village Museum of Arts and Cultures

Name/Title

A Hundred Ducks

Entry/Object ID

2019.1.82

Artwork Details

Medium

watercolor (paint), paper (fiber product)

Collection

Andrea and Irv Green Huxian Paintings Collection

Cataloged By

Hensley, Sam

Acquisition

Accession

2019.1

Source or Donor

Green, Andrea, Green, Irv

Acquisition Method

Gift

Credit Line

Gift of Andrea and Irv Green

Made/Created

Artist Information

Artist

Li Kemin

Role

Painter

Time Period

20th Century

Place

County

Hu Xian

Country

China

Region

East Asia

Continent

Asia

Ethnography

Culture/Tribe

Han Chinese

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Painting

Nomenclature Class

Art

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Other Names and Numbers

Other Numbers

Number Type

Past Accession Number - Donor Initials

Other Number

2019.iag.82

Number Type

Collector's Number

Other Number

AG 82

Parts

Count

Accessories

Accessory

Frame

Copyright

Type of License

Exclusive License

Copyright Holder

Li Kemin

Copyright Details

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Interpretative Labels

Label Type

Tombstone Label

Label

A Hundred Ducks Li Kemin (Chinese, b. 1945) Late 20th century Paint on rice paper Gift of Andrea and Irv Green, 2019.1.82

Label Type

Cultural/Historical Context

Label

In traditional Chinese painting, animals are few and often just passing through the painting. Not here. And not exactly a hundred, but who’s counting? Li Kemin talks about his accidental technique in this one. Before this painting, he had used only brushes and dark paper to paint. He created this painting with a new technique involving stencils and sponges. Sponge and towel give the ducks a texture that better represents feathers. That technique happened by accident. The artist had put too much paint on the paper and used a towel to remove some of it. This dulled the colors, but in his words, what was left was “wonderful.”