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何肇衢

作者何肇衢1931年出生於新竹州竹東郡的客家農家，從小喜歡繪畫，就讀竹東中學時，受老師啟發，逐漸選擇了繪畫之路。1952年臺北師範學校藝術師師範科畢業，擔任國民學校美術教師，課餘勤於創作油畫，曾連續三屆獲得台陽美展台陽獎、亦曾榮獲畫學金爵獎、中山文藝獎章等諸多獎項。
何肇衢作畫線條明快、色彩極富變化，題材多生活即景和寫生，台灣北部九份、淡水等地，都有他繪畫巡禮的痕跡。
本幅作品主題為觀音山，作畫地點採俯視河景，作於畫家畫室遠眺隔岸山體，整體而言構圖安穩中帶有一點奇趣，碼頭和山腳下的河岸成平行線的線條，被他採用近景的房舍、樹叢、和泊船帶來視覺的變化增添了可讀性。日治時期畫家習慣帶著殖民主義觀點的凝視淡水風景，日本畫家石川欽一郎所影響的風景畫家以「如畫的」概念所見的風景視野，多為透過特定的教堂尖頂和紅瓦白牆屋宇彰顯浪漫的異國情調。何肇衢的淡水風景，卻表現出一種日常景觀。
何肇衢作畫多注重色彩塊面的組構關係，他善用對比色和補色在畫面上形成色彩的韻律，並且充分掌握色彩的明度差，使畫面明暗的調子產生細膩性變化。在觀賞何肇衢的畫面觀者將能感受到音樂性的韻律效果。

He Chao-Chu was born in 1931 in Judong County, Hsinchu State, in a Hakka farming family. Since he was a child, he has had an interest in painting, and inspired by his teachers when he attended Judong High School, he chose the arts and painting as his career. In 1952, He graduated from the Art Teacher's Department of the Taipei Normal School and worked as an art teacher at middle schools. He worked diligently to create oil paintings in his spare time and was awarded the Tai-Yang Arts Award for three consecutive years, the Painting Golden Award, and the Sun Yat-Sen Medal of Arts and Culture.
He Chao-Chu's paintings are bright and colorful; his subjects are primarily live scenes and sketches. His past works portrayed many versions of Jiufen and Danshui in Northern Taiwan.
The artwork's theme this time is Guanyin Mountain. He chose to portray the scenery through an overlooking, distant view from his studio on the river. Overall, the painting's composition is stable with a touch of curiosity. The parallel lines between the pier and the riverbank at the foot of the hill are enhanced by the visual dynamic brought about by the close-up view of the houses, trees, and moored boats. During Taiwan under Japanese colonial rule, painters used to gaze at freshwater landscapes from a colonialist perspective. The Japanese painter Kinichiro Ishikawa influenced painters to adopt the "picturesque" concept in landscape portrayal; as a result, previous works visualized Danshui’s specific church spires and red tile and white wall houses to highlight the romantic and exotic mood. However, He's freshwater landscapes cast a different light on the scenery: one that belongs to the mundane, the daily, and the content.
He uses contrasting and complementary colors to form a color rhythm in the painting. The artist also fully grasps the difference in color saturation and hue to produce delicate changes in the painting's highlights and shadows. The viewer will be able to feel the rhythmic musical effect when viewing He Chao-Chu's works.