400 years ago, a Chinese artist painted the search for family

400 years ago, a Chinese artist painted the search for family

Audience members were engrossed in a Chinese “Where’s Waldo” game. They carefully scanned the expansive Chinese ink landscape paintings in this visual search, attempting to locate the diminutive figure of Huang Xiangjian hidden in waterfalls, chasms and sweeping mountain ranges within the very masterpieces he created. The brushwork of 17th-century Chinese painter Huang Xiangjian was introduced by Elizabeth Kindall, professor of art history at th…