Offering Apsaras (1996) 绘画 由 Junqi Liu

The original of this work is from the grandest Cave 4 of the Majishan Grottoes, featuring four celestial musicians. On the left side of the painting, two Feitian fly towards the right, one holding a tambourine and a drumstick, while the other holds cymbals. On the right side, two Feitian fly towards each other, one playing a horn while looking back, and the other playing a harp.

The original artists made bold innovations by creating shallow relief sculptures for the exposed muscles of the Feitian's faces, upper arms, hands, and feet using fine mud, while painting was used for garments, ribbons, flowing clouds, and celestial elements. This unprecedented combination of painting and sculpting techniques was referred to as "thin-flesh sculpture" by the painting master Wu Zuoren in 1953.

This work was created in 1996. Mr. Liu Junqi faithfully reproduced the original painting, spending 36 months on a scaffold as high as 10 meters to complete this monumental work.

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