This is an original painting by Qunce Zeng titled Rooster, executed with acrylic and mixed media on raw linen canvas at an imposing 39 inches wide x 46 1/2 inches tall. The composition captures a striding, crowing cockerel set against untouched natural linen, the neutral field intensifying the explosive color and gesture. In the full view, Zeng drives the eye from the red crown and beak through passages of emerald, citrus yellow, charcoal black and violet, culminating in a sweeping tail rendered with whipping, calligraphic strokes and high-velocity splatter. The detail image confirms the artist’s layered technique - a built relief of dense white modeling paste and textured acrylic medium interlaced with poured and marbled pigments that dry with a tactile crust and glossy rivulets - while the tail feathers display knife-work and flung paint that read as pure movement. The surface is rich and varied, shifting from granular impasto to glassy skims, a hallmark of mixed-media practice on linen. Signed in Chinese characters at the lower right in black, the work is ready for gallery or residential display.
Iconically Chinese in subject yet international in language, Rooster fuses calligraphic draftsmanship with contemporary action painting, creating a charismatic symbol of dawn, vigilance and vitality that collectors of contemporary Chinese art, animal painting and expressive abstraction will recognize immediately. The palette is fresh and luminous, the raw linen is visibly fine-woven and taut, and the painting’s scale offers commanding wall presence without overpowering a sophisticated interior. Offered unframed and in excellent overall condition with the expected minor errant micro-specks from the artist’s dynamic process.