Art review: “The painting arrived in New York from China as a tight little package, but when fully unrolled, it measures 32 feet. Even when only a section of it is displayed, as in New York, you can feel the grandeur of the complete image: a continuous panorama of the Yangtze River winding through mountains. Actually, it is a dream image, fantastic, even bizarre, with its yeasty rocks as soft as rising dough and its yawning stretches of unpainted space. For the artist to have walked the equivalent of this terrain would have taken months, even years. And since that’s probably how long it took him to paint the scroll, in effect, he made that trip. The Chinese call this mind-traveling, and they’ve always been big on it.” New Yrok Times
