典藏單位:國立中正紀念堂管理處

館藏編號:PT09791400

鄧國強

尺寸:77x96x2.8(含框)

鄧國強(1934- )，1971年畢業於年國立臺灣大學中文系，擅長水彩畫。他喜歡大自然，畫作題材多以大自然為主－山與我，水與我，我與自然合而為一。師承梁鼎銘、梁中銘、林克恭。任中華亞太水彩藝術協會監事、臺灣國際水彩畫協會、亞熱帶生態藝術協會會員；1983-1993年曾任中國美術研究中心西畫教授、2010-2012年任臺灣國際水彩畫協會理事。1990-2007年舉辦六次水彩個展於國父紀念館等展出； 2010年參加「水彩的壯濶波濤」－兩岸水彩名家作品展於中正紀念堂等大型水彩展覽。著有《鄧國強水彩畫集》(漢生出版社，1998年)等。他認為自然是最美的，唯有愛好自然的畫家才能創造出感人的作品，畫風寫實，題材以風景為主，在寫實的作品中表達出詩意情懷與文學性，這些都是他創作中的特色。
本幅作品以樸實不粗糙的筆觸熟練地運用渲染、縫合等技法融合而成的細緻作品，繪製時間快需要聚精會神，混合不同色彩卻又不會將顏色混髒。從作品中的和煦陽光、溫潤的色溫與光影的位置，可看出畫家所描繪的是午後時分的八里渡船頭景象，而且時逢退潮，但又不特別強調光影的強弱，讓畫面明暗的對比度緩和許多，使得畫面的視覺感受十分柔順，對岸淡水後山雲層的灰藍色，隱約表現出風雨欲來的氣氛，遠方山景的處理對於前方灑滿陽光的前景具有十足烘托之效。(510字)

Teng Kuo-chiang (1934–) graduated from National Taiwan University's Department of Chinese Literature in 1971, and specializes in watercolor painting. He has a love of nature, and natural subjects—mountains and water, nature and the self merged into one—predominate in his work. He studied under Liang Ting-ming, Liang Chung-ming, and Lin Ko-kung. Teng has served as supervisor of the Chinese Asia-Pacific Watercolor Art Association, and as a member of the Taiwan International Watercolor Painting Association and Subtropical Eco-Art Association; from 1983 to 1993 he served as professor of Western painting at the Chinese Art Research Center, and from 2010 to 2012 as a director of the Taiwan International Watercolor Painting Association. Between 1990 and 2007 he held six solo watercolor exhibitions at the National Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall and other venues; in 2010 he participated in "The Grand Sweeping Tide of Watercolor"—an exhibition of watercolor masters from both sides of the Taiwan Strait at the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall—and other major watercolor exhibitions. He is the author of "Teng Kuo-chiang: A Collection of Watercolor Paintings" (Echo Publishing Co., 1998). Teng believes that nature is the most beautiful of all, and that only an artist who loves nature can create work that truly moves the viewer; his style is realistic, with landscape as the primary subject, and within his realistic works he expresses a sense of poetry and literary feeling—distinctive hallmarks of his creative practice.

This work is a refined piece, produced with practiced skill in washes and suturing techniques with unaffected, unfussy brushstrokes—requiring focused concentration during execution, as different colors were mixed without muddying them. From the warm sunlight, the mellow color temperature, and the position of light and shadow, one can see that the artist depicts the Bali ferry landing in the afternoon, at low tide. Rather than emphasizing strong contrasts of light and shadow, the artist softens the picture's contrast of light and dark, giving the visual experience a quality of great gentleness. The grey-blue of the clouds over the hills of Tamsui on the opposite bank subtly conveys the sense of an approaching storm, and the treatment of the distant mountain scenery serves as a highly effective foil to the sunlit foreground.