Author:Wang Nan-Hsiung

Size:Length:69.5 x Width:83.2 (cm)

Size description：88.5x102.5x3(含框)

Introduction：Wang Nan-hsiung (1943–), born in Neiwei, Kaohsiung, is a Taiwanese ink painter. In 1963, he entered the Department of Arts at National Taiwan Normal University, where he received outstanding honors including first prize in printmaking and second prize in Chinese painting. After graduation he taught at Taipei Senior High School, retiring in 1974, thereafter devoting himself entirely to ink painting creation and serving as instructor for the Mo-yen Painting Society.

Spread over several decades, Wang's exhibition record in Taiwan is too extensive to enumerate fully; he has also traveled abroad to exhibit in the United States, France, Korea, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, the Czech Republic, the Republic of Macedonia, and Poland, strengthening ties of friendship between nations. His works have received numerous awards, including the Chinese Literary and Arts Association's Chinese Painting and Literary Arts Award (1987), the Taiwan Provincial Literary and Arts Association's Chung-Hsing Literary and Arts Award (1988), the Sun Yat Sen Academic and Cultural Foundation's 25th Chung Shan Literature and Arts Chinese Painting Creation Award (1990), and the 19th National Arts Creation Award (1994).

After entering the 1970s, Taiwan society faced its most turbulent period in history, and the literary and arts world launched a Nativist debate; artists moved into the countryside to explore historical traces of the past and to establish the core values of Taiwanese culture. Ink painters tended to depict rural and pastoral landscapes, recording the customs and practices of the land along with its unaffected topography and expressing their collective memory.

Wang Nan-hsiung's ink works are elegant in color, solid in brushwork and ink, and rigorous in structure. His mature period coincided with the Nativist movement in full swing, and his work reflects this in many ways. This work, painted from life, depicts the beautiful landscape of forests and waterfalls in Taiwan's mountains. Through accurate proportional relationships, the artist successfully conveys a scene that is simultaneously still and dynamic, in which visual and auditory experience coexist. His teacher Huang Chun-pi once remarked: "Wang Nan-hsiung's paintings are very animated—the clouds move, the wind moves, the water moves; this already reaches the essence of painting, moving from stillness to motion, and it is no easy achievement"—high praise indeed.

Accession Number:PT09782600

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