LO CH'ING (b.1948) The DNA of Chinese Painting Series, Landscape Conversation with Mountain Huang Series, The Crystallized Mountain Huang in Snowy Dusk, 1999LO CH'ING (b.1948)The DNA of Chinese Painting Series, Landscape: Conversation with Mountain Huang Series, The Crystallized Mountain Huang in Snowy Dusk, 1999Ink and colour on xuan paper. 137cm long x 69cm wide (54in long x 27 1/4in wide).羅青（1948年生）黃山西梅暮雲慾雪圖 設色紙本 鏡框 1999年作Published, Illustrated and Exhibited：Chinese Ink Painting Now, New York, 2010, p.88.展覽著錄：《當代中國水墨畫》，紐約，2010年，第88頁。Born in Qingdao, Shandong Province, in 1948, Lo Ch'ing is not just a painter, but also a poet and calligrapher. He moved to Taiwan with his parents in 1949. At an early age, Lo learned classical ink painting of the court tradition from the ink painting master Pu Ru, a member of the Qing Imperial family. Subsequently he studied in the English Department of Fu Jen University, and received an MA degree in Comparative Literature from the University of Washington, Seattle, in 1974. He has been both a professor of literature and a professor of fine arts in universities in Taiwan, the United States, the United Kingdom, Prague, and mainland China. Lo is well versed in classical Chinese literature and arts of the brush, as well as in modern and postmodern literature and art. His poems have been published and translated into many languages, and Lo Ch'ing is regarded as one of the pioneers of post-modern poetry in Taiwan. He has also been a major innovator in ink painting, for which he has created a new visual vocabulary that deconstructs the classical forms of Chinese landscape by introducing into his compositions abstract and geometric elements as well as unexpected contemporary motifs.Lo Ch'ing's paintings are in several prestigious collections worldwide including the British Museum, London; The Royal Ontario Museum, Canada; The Saint Louis Art Museum, USA; Museum fur Ostasiatische Kunst, Berlin; National Taiwan Museum; Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; and Asia Society, New York.Compare with a related painting by Lo Ch'ing, titled 'Ten Thousand Peaks of White Snow', 1997, which was sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 28 November 2016, lot 1606.