~ Ngan Siu-Mui's Chinese Painting ~

Ngan Siu-Mui's Chinese Painting
Tiger ~ Leopard Transformed  — 1986
Inspiration from I Ching (Yi Jing)

Leopard Transformed, Painting by Ngan Siu-Mui, Lingnan School style
Tiger ~ Leopard Transformed
Ngan Siu-Mui's Chinese Painting

Inscription
I Ching: The refined gentleman transformed like the leopard change.
Yang Zifa said: A raccoon becomes a leopard,
and a leopard becomes a tiger.
~ The people metaphor says that transforming from lowly
to noble is Leopard Transformed.
~ Gentlemen live in low places,
~ who would not want to become the lord of all beasts?
~ Ngan Siu Mui, 1986 Autumn


Chinese Paper, watercolors, ink
Scroll, 66x135cm


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