No. 045
Li Liangchen
Like a Cloud
45x55cm
Ink and color on silk
2025
US$2,000
'Like a Cloud' employs the colors and patterns of traditional blue-green landscapes as symbolic imagery to depict an "unconstrained" and "unrealistic" dreamscape. The imagery of clouds is replaced by mountain forms drifting through a dream, while the translucent quality of the silk substrate creates a spatial reality akin to "cloud shadows." The work is composed of two layers: a top surface of silk and a base layer of Xuan paper.
About the Artist
Li Liangchen
（China， b.1997）
PhD Candidate in Fine Arts and Calligraphy, China Academy of Art. Based in Beijing. As a post-90s artist bridging traditional paper-based media and the digital age, Li Liangchen seeks to embed contemporary emotions and reflections within the classical framework of silk and mineral pigments. Drawing on the ancient tradition of blue-and-green landscape painting, he uses color and composition to express human alienation and longing in the digital era. Through the “blue-and-green” filter, he reexamines his relationship with nature, tradition, and a rapidly changing world. His works have been exhibited at Today Art Museum, National Art Museum of China, and He Art Museum, and are included in the collections of Beijing Shu Art Museum and the China Art Museum Association.