King of the Mountains, Himalayas by Yu Hanyu, Contemporary Chinese Photography

A contemporary color panoramic photograph, King of the Mountains, 2013 by Chinese artist Yun Hanyu -- is a signed 16" x 36" HD C- print. The King of the Mountains, Mount Gongga, is the highest mountain in the Sichuan province in China, with the Xindu Bridge seen at sunset.Artist and photographer, Yu Hanyu captures “the towering row of mountains, the precipitous cliffs, the cold moon and the wasteland, the places beyond the Great Wall and the forests, the wind and the frost” – the mountains are his muse. Seeking inspiration for his landscape paintings, artist Yu Hanyu has spent many months since 2005 photographing the untraversed snow-covered Tibetan plateau and Himalayan mountains.Provenance: Yu Hanyu Studio***Artist’s Bio:Yu Hanyu is a contemporary Chinese painter born in 1964. He is known primarily as a landscape painter and calligrapher. Yu Hanyu’s process includes reproducing on rice paper the effects of oil painting by combining traditional materials such as heavy ink and cinnabar