Splashed-color scenery painting

After 1949, Zhang lived for a occasion in Hong Kong and India previous to building residences in São Paolo, Carmel (in California), and Taiwan. His long citizenship outside China unavoidably brought him into contact with currents of current Western art, including theoretical Expressionism. This work, painted with strong mineral colors and wide washes of layered ink, may stand for Zhang's response to such authority.

Zhang sustain that such works, which first come into view in 1956, when he was in Europe, resulting from the broken-ink techniques of random wet and soaking used by Tang dynasty (618–907) artists, but it appear more likely that his meet with Western theoretical art encouraged him to carry additional the Japanese method of splashed colors that he had used in earlier works. Clearly he greets the liberating effect of this painting mode on his originality, which gave impulsiveness to his compositions. In spite of their abstract character, however, these paintings remain determinedly expressive of the natural world.