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This painting was created in 2023 (这幅画创作于2023年)
Painter (画家): Law Yuen (羅源)
Painting style (绘画风格) : Sketching Thoughts’ Style Painting (寫意派画 — 素描思想风格画)
Title (标题): DRIPS OF WATER PENETRATES A ROCK (滴水穿石)
Background of this Chinese painting creation (这幅国画创作背景):
Recently, painter Law Yuen visited a library. In the library, he found a picture book in which a landscape photo reminded him of a wonderful scenery near his hometown in China. He remembered that there were many high mountains behind his village about ten miles away. One day he and his childhood friend decided to explore there. when they got there. They were surprised to find that in addition to many huge peaks, there was also a huge, strange rock mountain which was formed by different colorful stones that looked like a huge gem mountain. On the top of this rock mountain, a small waterfall from an adjacent mountain poured into it. At first glance, the painter and his friend thought it was strange because the water from the waterfall didn’t spill outside of the rock mountain. In other words, the water from the waterfall rushed straight into the rock mountain and again rushed out from the bottom. At that time, the painter and his friend thought it was impossible. Later, they heard a village’s old man explain that the reason why the waterfall can penetrate this rock mountain is because the waterfall has been flowing continuously for thousands of years, just like a Chinese idiom “drips…
