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Performers of "Taiwan Jiaxiang Art

Through the temple festivals, it is a perfect way to create art without losing the traditional norms.
Broadly speaking, it reflects social phenomena, customs, human values, inner conflicts and deep-seated desires.

There are accidents in life, and there are also accidents in painting. All kinds of accidents form the meeting point of historical karmic process, which develops a series of accidental surprises without any criteria. It is a karmic meeting under the act of nature, without any preparation and without any standardization, and it is the manifestation of the deep self-contact under the state of body, mind, and spirit without any pressure, and it is the deep art of life in the process of the point and line guidance of body, mind, and spirit.

If we don't talk about brushwork, the characteristics of color and media, style, creative skills, subtlety and layout, then we can only return to our nature, talk about the original intention of man, talk about the gradation of man, and talk about the meaning of life, culture and art values! The veins and textures of life are delicate and complex, with many variations of sentimentality. To be able to talk about art and storytelling, sadness, reality and art with the "lines and colors of Ka Shing", Chuang Sully seems to have found the pivot point to lift up the sentimental illusionary sentimentality in the world, and to settle down a simple and unadulterated heart!

Taiwan's eight oil painting artist, Chuang Shiu-yau, was born in 1965 in the small fishing village of Chi-jin, Kaohsiung, and is the eldest son of his family. The family depended on fishing for a living, and his father often went out to fish the day after a typhoon, braving the stormy sea, just because there was a large amount of fish after the typhoon, so that he could earn more income. Because of the family's poor situation, his father had very high expectations of him, and he hoped that he would not follow in his footsteps, and so he was always scolded and educated in his education. His father demanded that he must enter Kaohsiung's top school, Hung Middle School, but he failed the entrance examination by 3 points and was admitted to Fung Middle School in the province. However, since he was a talented artist, he wanted to study in an art school and started a family revolution. Under his father's authority and the family's situation, of course, this wish was not fulfilled, which made him realize that the family's situation affects a person's right to choose, and that he had to take care of all the family's expenses, and that he had to take care of all the family's expenses only when his family's situation became better. Therefore, he gave up the idea of studying in an art school as well as studying in Provincial Fengshui Middle School, and decided to go out for work and to take care of all the family's expenses. The year after JUPAS, with the encouragement of his family and friends, he was admitted to the provincial Luodong Higher Education Institute. As he was not accustomed to the teaching system at that time, he chose to take a break from his studies and studied on his own way, which led to a wide range of studies, and what he had learned was not subject to the constraints of the institutional system, instead, it opened up more philosophies of life that were free of his mind, and it also planted a very important spiritual seed for his art career.

I had a great imagination as a child.

As a toddler, he did not have a picture of Thousand Handed Goddess of Mercy, and he said he didn't know why! He can draw Thousand Hands of Goddess of Mercy with his hands.
In addition, in one of the art classes at the national primary school, the teacher asked his classmate to be the model and asked the class to draw this classmate, and Chuang Successful had drawn this classmate as the King of Tibet, with the face of that classmate, and the finished work was rejected by the teacher, and the score was calculated as zero, and he left the classroom angrily in defiance of the teacher. Perhaps this was the flaw of the education system at that time. Failure to recognize and adapt to the needs of the students has buried many of these children with unique ideas and talents.
Since childhood, Chuang Successful has a rich imagination and loves to doodle, always filling the white space at home with his creativity, but because of this, he is often caught and beaten by his father. Writing this reminds me of Ku A-Ming in the masterpiece of Taiwanese literature, "Rubin's Flower", who couldn't stop his talent and desire to draw, and under the suppressed situation by the adults, the more he tries to get a brush, until the appearance of the scholar, Bole, the soul can be fully released and blossom. The more he tries to get a brush, the more his soul will be released and blossom until he is able to recognize his talent.

Turn your life around and take care of your family.

After graduating from junior high school, he realized that children from poor families have limited choices in life, and that the only way to build their dreams is to turn them around. He chose to work hard to share the family's finances, to earn money for his siblings' education, to develop a skill, to turn around the family's economy, and to grow together as one.
He has worked hard to earn money wherever he can, from menial jobs to apprenticeships, and then established his own business such as an automobile dealership and repair shop, real estate agency, funeral parlors, and so on. ....... Starting from nothing, he was prudent and turned his life and the fate of his family around one step at a time.

A turning point in his life at the age of 35, launching a full-time artistic career

In the mid-summer of 2000, he was 35 years old, at the peak of his career, and he was living a life of exploitation. Although he had no material worries, he felt empty and deprived inside and chose to end his life, and he attempted to commit suicide, but he was saved by a doctor. The doctor's words woke up the man in his dream. The doctor said to him, "If you don't die in this disaster, God has given you a great task to accomplish, so pull yourself together and fulfill it. He was awakened from his dream and came to a realization. Lying on the hospital bed, he began to think about what else he could do. Realizing that only painting could lead him to himself, he gradually stepped out of the business and devoted himself to creation.
In 2008, he was hit by the global financial tsunami, causing his family to fall into dire straits, but that year he was not crushed, instead, he became more and more courageous. After God closed one door for him, he also opened another window for him, which accidentally increased his desire to create, allowing him to enter into a more advanced artistic career.

Expectations for Self-Artistic Creation

In the course of his artistic creation, he received a lot of advice and support from a senior artist, who urged him to find his own creative vocabulary, and in response to his words: "It is better not to paint anything that is no different from anyone else. His words, "It is better not to paint anything that is the same as other people's," strengthened his conviction to continue to create. However, the process of searching for creative themes did not go smoothly. In order to understand his son's world, he personally participated in his son's Bajiazhuang training, temple activities, and his circle of friends in 2008, and because of this, he gained a deeper understanding of Taiwan's traditional jingtou and temple culture, and found a niche for his artistic creation. Without any intention, Mr. Chuang has been involved in the study of the Bajiazhuang dingtou and has been eating, drinking, sleeping and sleeping with them for more than two years, so that he has been able to understand the personalities of each member of the dingtou and the meaning of the Bajiazhuang's roles and meanings. In the end, his mission is to promote Taiwan's traditional culture, humanism, and caring for the grassroots through love, and he also hopes that his systematic, repetitive, and differentiated Bajiazhuang art creations will bring more people to reflect on their own local cultural identity, ethnic tolerance, and more human values.

Exhibitions

2023 National Taiwan Craft Research and Development Center, Ministry of Culture, Taiwan, Special Exhibition at the Buddha Museum of Aesthetics of Temple Relationships
2023 Metaphysical Exhibition at Taichung Harbor Art Center
2022 Bank SinoPac Kaohsiung Branch Invitation Solo Exhibition
2022 Invitation to a Special Solo Exhibition at the Fo Guang Yuan Art Museum in Pingtung, Taiwan
2019 Bamboo and Plum Source Art and Culture Space Invitational Exhibition
2018 Solo Exhibition at Shui Pen Chai Art Space
2017 Solo Exhibition at Pingtung University of Science and Technology
2017 Zhongshan Hall, Taipei, Taiwan, Joint Exhibition of Art and Culture
2016 Taipei Happenings Cultural and Creative Space, National Doggie Loaner Exhibition
2015 Solo Exhibition at Taipei Zhongshan Hall
2015 Solo Exhibition at Kaohsiung Niihama Art Space
2013 Taipei Kwan Shing 3-Person Exhibition
2011 Pingtung Museum of Art Drunken Cloth and Dreaming Dust 4-Person Exhibition
2010-2007 Solo Exhibition at Xinxing/Sanmin Art Corridor
2007-2022 Participate in more than 100 domestic and international exhibitions.

served as

Executive Director, Kaohsiung Fine Arts Promotion Association
Director of Niihama Matou Art Association
Currently Secretary General of the Southern Taiwan Fine Arts Association of the Republic of China.

Awards

2014 Bronze Medal Award, Southern Taiwan Art Exhibition
2013 Taiwan National Exhibition Oil Painting, 2nd place
2013 Silver Medal, Southern Taiwan Art Exhibition
2010 1st place in Chan Chunghwa Art Exhibition
2017~2007 Dadun Fine Arts Exhibition/National Oil Painting Exhibition/Yushan Fine Arts Exhibition/Kaohsiung Fengyi Fine Arts Exhibition/Taiyang Fine Arts Exhibition/More than 20 awards in South American Exhibitions, Southern Taiwan Exhibitions, Taoyuan Fine Arts Exhibitions, and Bamboo and Plum Garden National Oil Painting Exhibitions.
2007 Chan Chunghwa Art Exhibition, 2nd place

Zhuang Jian Yu

Domain

Oil, watercolor, gouache, Artists

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Stream of Time - Wang Shengping Oil Painting Invitational Exhibition Conveys the Vision of Beauty

From now until May 29th, the Lugang Township Office will hold the "Stream of Time - Wang Shengping Oil Painting Invitational Exhibition" at the Lugang Guild Hall. This exhibition is a synthesis of Wang Shengping's understanding of painting in three different periods over the past 10 years. His creations are rooted in the belief that "beauty comes from harmony," and through the 47 pieces of creations, he conveys to the viewers a more intimate feeling of "beauty," welcoming those who are interested in art creation to come and visit the exhibition.

Mr. Wang Sheng-Ping, a native of Xiushui Township, Changhua County, has a Master's degree in Fine Arts from Da-Yeh University. He is currently the chairman of the French Salon Society of Taiwan Artists, and has also served as a part-time lecturer for the art class at Nanhua University-Changhua Social University and an external lecturer for the oil painting class at the Changhua County Cultural Affairs Bureau. In 2010, his painting "Hope" won the Bronze Medal at the Salon des Artistes in France and received unanimous international acclaim. He has also won numerous awards in China, and was awarded the third place in the 100th National Art Exhibition in 2013.

Wang Shengping's works in this exhibition are based on natural images and attempt to transform them into imagery, exploring the principles of painting in both the figurative and the sensual. In order to achieve the implementation of "materialization", Wang Shengping seeks for the visual imagery that is contained in nature in a more autonomous manner, and materializes the self-perception, giving the works a richer connotation and tension, in order to achieve the goal of creating works at this stage of the exhibition.

Wang Shengping said he has loved art since childhood, because of the family's poor, can only buy the cheapest Taiwan pigments, and only red, yellow, blue, white, black five colors, pigments are often because of the many times and reduce the degree of color, so that the picture is slightly dull, but he also took the opportunity to train a more pure, versatile color performance.

Lugang Mayor Xu Zhihong said, "It is an honor to invite Mr. Wang Shengping to exhibit at the Lugang Guild Hall. Through Mr. Wang Shengping's paintings, we can feel the themes and brushwork of his different periods, from the early days of the countryside, to the middle of the countryside with a variety of techniques to present a different countryside, and finally back to the contents of the surrounding life, and through these paintings, we can feel the beauty of a variety of different things.

With the recent severe epidemic, we are invariably under a lot of pressure. We hope that through this exhibition, we can let all the viewers experience the beauty of life and the countryside through Mr. Wang Shengping's artworks, release the tension and follow his brushwork on the canvas.

(Changhua News) [Reporter Yafang Chen/Changhua News

Source:LINE TODAY,Deer Harbor Township Cultural Center

Master Sculptor and Life Walker Spark Art in the Courthouse

Huang Wen-dong, a clerk, and Li Wen-wu, a contemporary sculptor, held a joint exhibition at the Taichung District Court under the facilitation of Taichung District Court President Jiang Xilin. Li Wen-wu, a sculptor who is an apprentice at the grassroots level, and Huang Wen-dong, an artist in the legal profession, are expected to create cultural sparks at the Taichung District Court.

In the early days, Li Wenwu focused on rare animal subjects, which were so lifelike that it was hard to tell if they were real or fake. Later, after coming into contact with religion and gaining a deeper understanding of it, and in view of the high demand for statues of gods and goddesses in the market, Li Wenwu developed his work towards statue carving. In his early years, he studied wood carving of flowers and birds in a fence with a Japanese master, laying the foundation of wood carving with a background in Chinese painting.

Huang Wen-dong came from a poor background. In junior high school, he set his mind to work in the court system because of the court sessions in the bystanders' hall, and he studied hard to become a clerk from the most basic level. However, because of the disease planted by his sleepless hard study, he began to cultivate his body and mind after being on the verge of death for several times, and more than 20 years ago, when he worked as the clerk of the Taichung District Court, with the support of the court, he created the Art Kitchen Window in the Taichung District Court, and has served as the curator until now.

Huang Wen-dong pointed out that the court was previously considered a government office, the desert of art, Taichung District Court Art Kitchen Window display of all the national exemption from censorship of the works of artists, has been held in photography, elegant stone, collection of exhibitions and many other exhibitions.

In recent years, Li Wenwu has taken two routes, one of which is to combine the techniques of wood carving and painting, and to use the myths, idols, and artifacts of Buddhism, Taoism, and Tantricism as the objects of creation, creating carvings and paintings full of religious mysteries.

In recent years the domestic popularity of Shen Xiang wood from Vietnam, due to the number of rare, soaring prices, become an investment target, Shen Xiang logs are worth a lot of money, more than gold, if then carved, the price is even more expensive! Li Wenwu pointed out that due to the Shen Xiang wood is too precious, carving can not carve off too much wood, and even wood shavings have to be collected, can be made into Shen Xiang powder.

Master carver Li Wenwu has been creating art for 46 years, creating his own artistic style and following his own path. Huang Wen-dong, who has worked in the judiciary for 35 years and is the curator of this exhibition, has specialized in art creation for 27 years. He has specialized in art creation for 27 years. This time, under the facilitation of Taichung District Court President Jiang Xilin, the two of them held a joint exhibition at the Taichung District Court Art Kitchen Window, which sparked off art in the courthouse.

Reporter/Song Chia-king Reported in Taichung

Source:NEWS

Artist Jiang Xinjing's 5-meter eye-catching creation "Yunxi, Arithmetic" is on display at the Founding Father's Memorial Hall.

A writer who has never held a paintbrush before has crossed over to the art world for ten years, living in the mountains and forests and creating works behind closed doors, but why has she made a big splash in recent years, winning awards both at home and abroad? Artist Chiang Hsin-ching's "Cloud Stream, Calculation - Chiang Hsin-ching's Creative Works Exhibition" presents the insights gained from living in the mountains and forests into an inspirational presentation. Two important works are the highlights of the exhibition: the first is the large-scale creation, "Cloud Stream, Calculation", and the second is the grand finale, "Flying Flames of the Ten Thousand Heavy Mountains", a six-curve Japanese screen, with their respective styles and the stories of their creations, and they are going to be exhibited at the De Ming Art Gallery, the Memorial Hall of the Father of the Nation, from November 22nd to 29th. The exhibition will be held from November 22 to 29 at the National Father's Memorial Hall's Deming Art Gallery.

Literary background and global experience of practice Jiang Xinjing 2020, more study tours, the Institute of Contemporary Ink Art, Shanghai Academy of Visual Arts, China Academy of Fine Arts Institute of Transmedia Art senior seminar, in-depth contemporary art and philosophy of technology, the development of the exhibition "Thinking Series", by many artists, including the National Father's Memorial Museum Director Wang Lansheng, also commented on the exhibition, "deconstructing the traditional landscapes and presenting the post-epidemic era of contemplation. The exhibition has been recognized by many artists, including Wang Lansheng, Director of the National Father's Memorial Museum, who commented that the exhibition "deconstructs traditional landscapes to present contemplation in the post epidemic era. Liu Guosong, the father of modern ink painting, said, "The process of learning to paint with a quiet mind is the practice of seeking differences before seeking excellence. I used to say in my teaching that we need to find a piece of white paper, but it seems that quietness is not just any paper, but a piece of paper that has 'traveled around the world and has the energy to do so', and that is what makes it possible to have such amazing performances in such a short period of time".

In addition, Prof. Ching Dai Lok, former head of the Department of Fine Arts of Normal University and an artist, acknowledged her work in the "Class‧Shanshui Creation Exhibition" in September, saying that she approaches art from the perspective of a literati, and that her works "are free from the constraints and influences of traditions, and she boldly tries to make mistakes, pursuing the purity and texture of her works, which is a breath of fresh air in the art world". They all recognized her ability to create and her "human" oriented spirit.

A rare exhibition of her large-scale masterpieces, "The Cloud and Stream Calculations" The year 2020 was a turning point for Jiang Xinjing's art. She said that her studies and exhibitions were halted due to the impact of the epidemic, but her inner drive to create was burning, and she moved to the mountains in order to find more space for her creations. This year's exhibition will feature a large-scale work, "Yunxi Calculations - Si-Net Series," which is five meters wide and has been selected for the second time this year as one of Taiwan's newest art awards. The upper image uses topography, dyeing, spraying, painting, and flowing to interpret the changes of clouds and mist in the valley, while the lower image uses one-time writing to present the changes of the water in Dajia Creek, with the white space in the middle symbolizing the openness of the universe."

Jiang Xinjing explains that he lives in the mountains during the creative process, and when it rains, the clouds rise from the mountains along the Dajia River, gathering the spirit of the mountains. I thought the "white space" of ink and wash was an aesthetic of emptiness, but in fact, the clouds, which wipe away the scenery in a flash, are themselves solid and full of power. In the six months of sleepless creation, the evolution of clouds and streams creates a space for contemplation and meditation beyond the algorithm.

Prof. Xie Qichang, the curator of the exhibition, said that the exhibition is mainly composed of new works, combining text, ink and installation, and the interplay of different media, especially this work, which "presents a contemporary vision of humanism," is the highlight. In addition, artist Zhuang Liantong, a professor at the Department of Fine Arts of the National Taiwan Normal University, also liked her work and pointed out that it was rare for her to present "majestic momentum" and "unrestrained charm" in her abstract ink and colors.

The finale of Jiang Xinjing's exhibition is "Flying Flames of Ten Thousand Mountains," inspired by a cycling trip to Sweden in the fall of 2001, where the cold weather and the maples all over the mountains ignited a youthful passion that she had no regrets about. Xin Jing used ink wash, stone green coloring, pine needle brush strokes, and gold leaf stacking to complete the six panels of "Flying Flames of Ten Thousand Heavy Mountains," recreating the memory of the burning autumn scenery of northern China.

And in accordance with the ancient method of making 〈Flying Flame Wan Chong Shan〉 six curved gold leaf screen, the cause is the heart of the quiet and deep love of the "Dream of the Red Chamber" and "The Tale of Genji" in the book of the screen, the timing, location and people, to find the three national treasures of conservationists to collaborate with the wooden lattice with the Kataten, without a nail, glued on five or six layers of paper to become a hollow paper frame, the outer frame of the yellow pear, the back of the frame of the Japanese brocade, the heart of the painting using the digging framing, no splicing marks, can be 360 degrees rotation, the perfect combination of contemporary art and craftsmanship. This is a perfect combination of contemporary art and craftsmanship.

The "Cloudy River, Arithmetic - Creative Works by Jiang Xinjing" will be on display from November 22nd. On November 25th, dancer Zhou Zhangxian will be invited to perform "Cloudy River, Arithmetic" in front of a piece of artwork, accompanied by "Flowing Water" composed by guqin virtuoso Joon Kwan Chen, which will start a multi-disciplinary dialogue between dance, music, and literary arts. People interested in painting are welcome to visit the De Ming Gallery of the National Father's Memorial Hall during the exhibition period to enjoy this not-to-be-missed visual feast.

Source: 2023/11/20 Luang Yuet Reads

2022 White Paper on the Human Body--Double Exhibition of Zheng Hongzhang+Guo Zhengshen

Nakedness is an innate nature, when people come into the world they are naked. We are free to take in the world, but slowly we feel the pressure, the coldness, the different eyes, everything is waiting to be wrapped up, to be educated, including our bodies and behaviors. We often lose the autonomy and voice of the body, and at the same time we forget to recognize our body and see ourselves. The body develops vocabulary and behavior, it can become an actor, a dancer, a movement artist. The body's lines of expression, through painting and art, revisit the superficiality of the skin.

　Zheng Hongzhang's series of female nudes is a multi-faceted confession of the artist's inner feelings after many years of creation. The female body in the paintings is like a metaphor for the abstract landscape. The female body and the frame co-structure a kind of unyielding silence, which is harnessed by a low-color grey that takes you on a journey through the female mind, stress or growth. The female body is no longer objectified into a single image, but they are indulgently beautiful. The relationship between the background and the female body is an understated and harmonious gray color scheme, outlining the colorful clothes on the nude woman, either removed or draped. The personalities of the characters are clearly defined, but in an understated jazzy tone, languid or relaxed, arrogant or confident.

　Guo Zhengshen's male nudes are a stylistic breakthrough after abstraction, modern landscape and vase flower. The male bodies in the paintings are covered by high and low color pigments, the simple color palette seems to cover up the impact of each character, and the ever-changing gestures and nudity inadvertently give off a lot of male pheromones. The male privacy is revealed one by one, but it is perfectly sealed in another way. These nude works present the concept of nudity, but not nudity. Guo's nude men are self-identified, conservative, taboo, open, subversive, exploring their bodies over and over again, from the tone of the color blocking, the linear connection and tension, the pink masculinity, to the exhaustive and infinite space for thought.

　The joint exhibition of Zheng Hongzhang's female body and Guo Zhengshen's male body not only realizes the difference in the artists' gender roles, the micro-creations created by heterosexuals looking at heterosexuals and homosexuals looking at homosexuals, and the juxtaposition of nude men's and women's creations, but also realizes the different perspectives and development of nude art of the two artists. When we look at the confrontation, harmonization, impact, and influence of these two genders' paintings, the nudity no longer becomes the paintings themselves, but a more naked view of our inner self. The nudity is no longer the paintings themselves, but a more naked look into our hearts.

Source:Artist Magazine