Withered Lotus by Wei Qiming, 2002, with crossing dark lotus stems and rounded plant forms embedded in layered black-brown and ochre paint

Withered Lotus - brushwork and texture detail

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Withered Lotus

Name: Withered Lotus
Brand: Paint For Heart
Price: 10490.0 SGD
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Artist Wei Qiming

Creation Date 2002

Material Oil on canvas

Size 42 x 57 cm

Category original

Theme Nature

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Bent lotus stems cross a dark field from several directions. A heavier curve enters from the left, while thinner lines turn through the centre and lower edge. Rounded, collapsed heads remain visible near some junctions. Their uneven spacing prevents the plants from forming a decorative pattern and preserves the irregular condition of dried growth.

Black-brown passages carry thick ridges and blunt dragged marks. Ochre appears both as an upper stroke and as colour exposed where a darker layer has been scraped or wiped back. Thin grey stains soften several edges, so a stem may be sharply defined in one section and almost absorbed in the next. These changes give the plant forms depth without conventional modelling.

Wei Qiming repeatedly paints lotus, reeds and dried flora while drawing on the open line and interval of Chinese ink painting. That practice explains why the stems are allowed to break and reappear rather than being completely outlined. Oil paint adds weight, abrasion and layered colour. Withered Lotus keeps the plant subject present while using decay, overlap and worked pigment to examine how a natural form changes after its season of bloom has passed.

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Style and context

Lotus has a long history in Chinese painting, where stems, leaves and surrounding blank space can carry as much weight as the flower. Modern artists extended the subject to withered plants and tested ink-like line against denser materials. The motif can remain legible even when its contours merge with the field.

Wu Guanzhong also returned to withered lotus. Research published by the Hong Kong Museum of Art describes how upright dry stems seen on frozen water gave the subject a strong linear structure and personal significance for him. This offers one route into the modern history of the motif, but Wei Qiming does not imitate Wu’s method. Crossing stems provide Wei’s framework, while scraping, wiping and impasto repeatedly interrupt their outlines. The work sits between botanical observation and material abstraction: dried lotus supplies the structure, and the oil surface records concealment, exposure and thickness.

Artist Profile

About the artist

Wei Qiming is a Chinese oil painter whose principal subjects include lotus ponds, reeds and dried plants. He brings ideas of presence, absence and reserved space from Chinese ink painting into oil, building his surfaces with brown, ochre, grey and black layers.

Through sustained work from natural subjects, he gradually reduced detailed description of individual plants. Stems, broken leaves and the rhythm of water remain visible, while scraping, overpainting and impasto give the surface greater material force. The subject is still recognisable, but its structure moves towards image-based and semi-abstract painting.

His mature work often considers plants after seasonal change. Withered lotus serves as a framework for line, interval and dense colour rather than as decorative flower painting. In this way, the physical weight of oil paint enters into a dialogue with the brush rhythms of Chinese flower-and-bird painting.

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