【PLUM BLOSSOMS】100% Silk & Leather Silk Double-Sided Tang Jacket

This handsome double-sided silk & leather-silk long Tang jacket / kung-fu jacket, with the silk side depicting details from HKMoA’s priceless art painting “Red Plum Blossoms & Rock” by world-revered Chinese contemporary master artist Wu Changshuo, and the other side made of black leather-silk that is made from pure silk and feels like very thin leather. Wu Changshuo specialized in poetry, calligraphy, painting and seal carving. He is known for his calligraphy in seal script, especially in stone and drum script, and infused his paintings with a calligraphic touch, so his paintings also show his profound calligraphic and seal script skills. Wu Changshuo loved plum blossoms, and once called himself “The Intimate Friend of Plum” and painted a large number of them in his works. The painting “Red Plum Blossoms and Rock” depicts crisscrossing, but not cluttered red plum branches. The brushwork is strong and powerful, with methodical lifting, pressing, stuttering and turning. The ink is richly varied in terms of intensity and wetness. The overall use of brushstrokes and ink is thick and rustic, with lines in the style of seal script. The use of magenta in the painting, as opposed to the carmine used in traditional Chinese painting, makes the red plum in the painting even more colourful, and visually complements the thick brushwork with ink, making the overall painting rich and colourful without being vulgar. Specification Painting: “Red Plum Blossoms & Rock” by Wu Changshuo (紅梅圖)(吳昌碩) Name: SPARKLE COLLECTION x HKMoA【PLUM BLOSSOMS】100% Silk Tang Jacket / Kung Fu Jacket SKU: STJ5UM0104RR Color: Off-white with plum & Black Material: Silk All measurements are done with the garment laying flat. Please allow for size discrepancies due to manual measurement. - Chest Width: Measured once from left to right (circumference = x2) CENTRESTAGE 2023 | SPARKLE COLLECTION x 香港藝術館 聯合策劃：將藝術館藏品結合Fashion English Ver. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-F0AsyChtI&t=3s