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Lin Fengmian's love for life and nature, looks forward to the peace and quiet, which is performed most in his beauty and landscape paintings. Wild gooses flying up of reed is the kind of theme that shows up his personal characteristics: far and light of the vast sky, reed shaken down, two or three wild gooses flying in contrary wind. These works show the maturity of Lin Fengmian's ink painting. Those early works have such a desolate, lonely, empty and lyrical tone, producing a kind of touched feeling and imaginary beauty of desolation. Just like dainty poems one after another, that won widely praised at that time. This work created in Hong Kong Period, late 1970s and early 1980s, a period in which artists were still used to square medium form, reflected his tenacious and optimistic attitude. The entire picture has a classic mood that Chinese ancient poetry describes as "strength of character is tested in a crisis". Lin Fengmian drew reed more accustomed to rigid substances like knife in the pictures: the winds standing out the tenacious of reed, as well as the birds flying through the black cloud and water, are expressed the courage of moving forward and never retreated ethos. Without a large area of blank like traditional composition, it still can grab people' attention at the first sight; it's like there is nothing else but those wild gooses and a few reeds between the sky and the earth. It's the work that good at both content and moods among Lin Fengmian' s masterships.

The biggest feature of Lin Fengmian' s landscape creations is you can find out the Chinese style from the first sight. The Chinese here means complet e and comprehensive general outlook, not a sign of someplace, not a proof of somewhere; she's mentally a great fit and agile performance. Couple of inserts and couple of brushworks are the complete performance of the motherland' s mountains and rivers and still life.