Author:Chiang Ming-hsien

Size:Length:50 x Width:83 (cm)

Size description：59x102.5x3.2(含框)

Introduction：Chiang Ming-hsien (1942–) was born in Taichung. He is a graduate of the Department of Fine Arts at National Taiwan Normal University and from the National Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando in Madrid, Spain. Skilled in watercolor, oil painting, and ink painting, with ink painting his specialty, he combines attention to the moment of brush and ink application with a search for formal accuracy, spiritual expression, and the principles of perspective. In his creative practice, he frequently draws on poetic imagery for the conception of pictorial mood, his technique embodying both Chinese and Western ideas, with a deep academic foundation—an approach that may be said to realize "the master is nature; the source is within the mind." His work possesses an inner artistic realm, precise composition, and varied color, using landscape and daily life as subject matter. Imbued with both the spirit of ink painting and the technique and substance of Western art, he has formed his own personal style while continuing to refine his ink painting, and this personal style continues to evolve.

Since middle age, his painting style has grown progressively more assured; his work carries cultural memory, often pervaded by a sense of vast and somber depth—a quality present in this work. The composition retains the influence of tradition while demonstrating a precise ability to depict objects. The lines are crisp and forceful, and the structure makes the influence of Western drawing clearly visible. In terms of composition, the mutual crossing of diagonal lines creates an interesting correspondence between the near trees and the distant ones, and between the bridge piers and the buildings, achieving a dramatic effect. The use of washes to handle areas of white space as mist creates a poetic, misty atmosphere.

The focal point of this work—"Taiwan Democracy Memorial Hall"—is positioned at the upper center of the picture, presenting a sense of the memorial hall's imposing grandeur; the trees and stone bridge in the foreground function almost like a realm of phantasmal transformation. The addition of close-range tree branches in the upper left expands the sense of spatial depth; by elevating the viewer's position to a certain height, the full scene of the memorial hall is taken in at a glance, and the final calligraphic inscription creates an abstractly spatialized quality—seemingly simple, yet sophisticated and demanding in approach.

Accession Number:PT09782100

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