Kuosung Liu (aka Liu Kuo-sung or Liu Guosong) (Taiwanese, born Bangbu, Anhui, China, 1932), Abstracted Mountain Landscape, circa 1974, ink and watercolor on paper, 18 x 34.75 inches, 30 x 36 inches overall, signed lower right. Provenance: A regional corporation since 1970s. From The Metropolitan Museum of Art website, (which includeds works by Kuosung Liu in their collection): Widely considered the "father of modern Chinese ink painting," Liu Kuo-sung left China for Taiwan during the Communist revolution and began his career in 1956 when he co-founded the Fifth Moon Painting Society in Taipei with fellow young painters who explored ways to modernize ink painting. Liu incorporated the philosophical and visual elements of Northern Song style monumental landscape paintings and looked to mid-century Euro-American abstraction for inspiration and comparison. Focusing on landscape as subject was a deliberate choice, as it is the artistic genre with the highest regard in the history of Chinese art. For Liu’s generation, the trauma of displacement reinforced an obsession with the ideas of land, identity, and belonging; landscape became the perfect vehicle for these complex sentiments and aspirations. In good condition unexamined outside of the frame. Merchandise will be packed and transported by the purchaser at their own risk and expense. A list of recommended shippers is on our website: https://www.conceptgallery.com/auctions/shipping/ .