Hung Liu Portrait for the Sasz Family
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We have reached our GOAL!! Thank you everyone. With the additional funds, we will provide a framing gift card since this is a personal choice, both style and where it might hang. We will sign a card with the all the names of those who donated so please feel free to continue donations. Anything left over will go to a scholarship fund. Thank you so much!!!
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Thank you all who have participated in helping buy this special monotype print for the Sasz family. First, it is an uncanny likeness of Sally that drove it's selection. Second, she wrote the catalog description which you can read below. I think the line in bold best expresses why its so perfect for the Sasz's wall... as Sally is the type of person that showed us all a positive way forward in life. While the piece has been procured, we could still use some additional donations. Thank you all.
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Hung Liu‘s “Migrant Child: with Puppy – Gold” depicts a young girl cradling a small, white puppy to her chest. She gazes out at the landscape before her, squinting into the sun with both arms curling around the animal protectively and endearingly. Liu emphasizes the brightness of the scene with the gold leaf background, creating the sense of a glowing sunset over the dry, flat landscape. Despite the detail incorporated into the background of the work, the primary focal point is the girl herself. In this print, Liu captures an intimate moment shared between child and animal. The tones are altogether soft, with bright yellows and warm peach hues, which bring an endearing feeling to the scene. The work suggests that even in the face of new horizons, humans still possess the capacity to care for other beings with empathy and compassion.
Hung Liu first discovered the Dorothea Lange photographic archive in 2015. She immediately became fascinated by the struggles of the migrants in Lange’s Dust Bowl Era photographs. Liu is empathetic because, like them, Hung Liu herself was forced to leave her home during the Cultural Revolution of her childhood in China. And ironically, like Dorothea Lange, Hung Liu used a camera (in Liu’s case, a smuggled one) to document the struggles of the people she encountered during that time. This painting shows Liu’s fascination with the way we care for one another, even when we can barely care for ourselves. Liu explores the sensitivity of children in her current body of work titled “Catcher in the Rays.” Inspired by “Catcher in the Rye,” in which Catcher is the child who tries desperately to keep civilization from falling into an abyss, Liu paints children as resilient guides to show humanity a positive way forward.
By Sally Sasz, Morehead-Cain Scholar, Art History/English student, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Thank you all who have participated in helping buy this special monotype print for the Sasz family. First, it is an uncanny likeness of Sally that drove it's selection. Second, she wrote the catalog description which you can read below. I think the line in bold best expresses why its so perfect for the Sasz's wall... as Sally is the type of person that showed us all a positive way forward in life. While the piece has been procured, we could still use some additional donations. Thank you all.
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Hung Liu‘s “Migrant Child: with Puppy – Gold” depicts a young girl cradling a small, white puppy to her chest. She gazes out at the landscape before her, squinting into the sun with both arms curling around the animal protectively and endearingly. Liu emphasizes the brightness of the scene with the gold leaf background, creating the sense of a glowing sunset over the dry, flat landscape. Despite the detail incorporated into the background of the work, the primary focal point is the girl herself. In this print, Liu captures an intimate moment shared between child and animal. The tones are altogether soft, with bright yellows and warm peach hues, which bring an endearing feeling to the scene. The work suggests that even in the face of new horizons, humans still possess the capacity to care for other beings with empathy and compassion.
Hung Liu first discovered the Dorothea Lange photographic archive in 2015. She immediately became fascinated by the struggles of the migrants in Lange’s Dust Bowl Era photographs. Liu is empathetic because, like them, Hung Liu herself was forced to leave her home during the Cultural Revolution of her childhood in China. And ironically, like Dorothea Lange, Hung Liu used a camera (in Liu’s case, a smuggled one) to document the struggles of the people she encountered during that time. This painting shows Liu’s fascination with the way we care for one another, even when we can barely care for ourselves. Liu explores the sensitivity of children in her current body of work titled “Catcher in the Rays.” Inspired by “Catcher in the Rye,” in which Catcher is the child who tries desperately to keep civilization from falling into an abyss, Liu paints children as resilient guides to show humanity a positive way forward.
By Sally Sasz, Morehead-Cain Scholar, Art History/English student, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Charlotte Country Day School Family
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Charlotte, NC