Poetry in Painting

Dr. Roger Mandle, President of Rhode Island School of Design and former Chief Curator at the National Gallery, describes the artist in the foreword: "Ming Ren's work both follows this centuries-old revolutionary moment in Chinese landscape painting and breaks with it, creating a new "post modern" perspective on the history of Chinese painting… Ming Ren's works of art serve as pointers toward deeper understandings since they are paradoxically puzzles of space and locale toward which we have no perspective, other than inner ones, from which to solve them. In these conundrums, literal truths become metaphysical ones, taking us from what we know to new places of artistic pleasure and meaning."