Author: Luo Fang

Size:Length:138 x Width:73 (cm)

Size description：161x92x3(含框)

Introduction：Lo Fong (1937–), born in Changsha, Hunan, is a Taiwanese ink painter. Raised in a family of scholarly tradition, she graduated from the Department of Fine Arts at National Taiwan Normal University, where she studied under masters such as Huang Chun-pi, Pu Hsin-yu, and Liao Chi-chun. She remained at the university upon graduation and taught in the Department of Fine Arts for many years. She has received numerous honors, including first prize in the Chinese painting category at the Taiwan Provincial Fine Arts Exhibition, the Chung Hsing Literary and Arts Award, the Golden Goblet Award, and the Chinese Culture and Arts Heritage Award. Her works have been exhibited at the National Dr. Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, and in New York, Japan, Macau, and other locations. Lo possesses profound brushwork skill and abundant creativity; during Taiwan’s nativist Realist movement she frequently traveled to the countryside to create, and when modern ink painting was on the rise, she also incorporated Western formal elements in her innovations, producing a distinctive personal style.

Lo excels at landscape painting, and has traveled to the United States on multiple occasions for research. Her style ranges from traditional realism to abstract compositional expression, resulting in a rich and diverse body of work. An avid traveler and plein air painter, Lo engages in dialogue with nature while also boldly breaking new ground, distilling the essence of nature and abstract concepts. She has experimented with abandoning the traditional use of the brush, replacing it with the recomposition of blocks of color and ink to create the rhythms and cadence of nature. Shen Yi-cheng has compared her to Shitao, moving from “searching all the strange peaks to make rough drafts” to “painting: the great law of the transformations of all under heaven,” praising her work for its exploration of the natural world and its spirit of courageous innovation.

This work is composed of two visual elements: the national flag billowing in the foreground and the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall in the middle ground. The white building is surrounded by circular motion and brushstrokes formed by the flag and the rooftop, adding a quality of ambiguity and turbulence. This work uses the image of the flag swirling in the wind as an allegory for the complex history of Taiwan's democratic movement and the process of gradually shaping its own identity, embedding the abstract within real scenery, as well as innovation within formal aesthetics.

Accession Number:PT09781500

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