Riddle Trees (Part 7) by HENRY HU Auguste Renoir its clean silhouettes and unmodulated

its clean silhouettes and unmodulated hues

and this landscape shows the same patient

clean outlines

elongated figures

graphic enough to read strongly across a room

Riddle Trees (Part 7) by HENRY HU Auguste Renoir its clean silhouettes and unmodulatedRiddle Trees (Part 7) arrives at a moment of pronounced openness in the series, the branching structures reduced to their most essential lines and set against an expansive, near empty ground. By this point in the sequence Henry Hu has stripped back progressively, and here that process reaches a sustained quietude single strokes read with extraordinary weight precisely because so little else competes for attention. The composition tilts toward