Take in the scenery
Take in the scenery鈥擳he poetry of contemporary painting across the Taiwan Straits features works by six artists from Taiwan and China. Their paintings reveal the thought processes unique to each individual artist, and together, they speak to us of their firm conviction about continuing to paint with the brush, even in this era of rapidly advancing technology and the search for ever greater convenience in our lives.
The artists work with the painter's brush, rather than the poet's pen. But their paintings reveal the thought processes unique to each individual artist, and together, they speak to us of their firm conviction about continuing to paint with the brush, even this era of rapidly advancing media and technology and the search for ever greater speed and convenience in our lives. The Tang and Song dynasties represented periods of thriving cultural development in Chinese history; some among today's artists have inherited their artistic spirit and continue to extend those traditions in their creative work.
鈥淭ake in the scenery鈥� features three Chinese artists鈥�Chi Ming, Zhai Liang, and Zhan Chong鈥攁nd three Taiwanese artists鈥�Cheng Po-Tsung, Lin Yen Wei, and Ni Ho-Tsu. They are all members of the 鈥減ost-80's鈥� generation, yet the circumstances of their lives, and their educational backgrounds, are so vastly different. In their painting, some choose to focus on expressing inner psychological states, while others take daily life as their subject. Their works convey differing worldviews through their decisions about form, medium, technique, and scale, but what all have in common is their presentation of a poetic view: a poem in the painting.
Viewers of 鈥淭ake in the scenery鈥� will note the strong literary quality of many of the works, and the way they seem to evoke remembered experiences: of watching movies, or reading a novel, or reciting poetry or reading comics. The paintings of these artists have been shaped into their current forms by the influence of these various creative mediums encountered in their daily lives, and they display all the great diversity of contemporary painting.
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Take in the scenery鈥擳he poetry of contemporary painting across the Taiwan Straits features works by six artists from Taiwan and China. Their paintings reveal the thought processes unique to each individual artist, and together, they speak to us of their firm conviction about continuing to paint with the brush, even in this era of rapidly advancing technology and the search for ever greater convenience in our lives.
The artists work with the painter's brush, rather than the poet's pen. But their paintings reveal the thought processes unique to each individual artist, and together, they speak to us of their firm conviction about continuing to paint with the brush, even this era of rapidly advancing media and technology and the search for ever greater speed and convenience in our lives. The Tang and Song dynasties represented periods of thriving cultural development in Chinese history; some among today's artists have inherited their artistic spirit and continue to extend those traditions in their creative work.
鈥淭ake in the scenery鈥� features three Chinese artists鈥�Chi Ming, Zhai Liang, and Zhan Chong鈥攁nd three Taiwanese artists鈥�Cheng Po-Tsung, Lin Yen Wei, and Ni Ho-Tsu. They are all members of the 鈥減ost-80's鈥� generation, yet the circumstances of their lives, and their educational backgrounds, are so vastly different. In their painting, some choose to focus on expressing inner psychological states, while others take daily life as their subject. Their works convey differing worldviews through their decisions about form, medium, technique, and scale, but what all have in common is their presentation of a poetic view: a poem in the painting.
Viewers of 鈥淭ake in the scenery鈥� will note the strong literary quality of many of the works, and the way they seem to evoke remembered experiences: of watching movies, or reading a novel, or reciting poetry or reading comics. The paintings of these artists have been shaped into their current forms by the influence of these various creative mediums encountered in their daily lives, and they display all the great diversity of contemporary painting.
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