Author:Chou Cheng

Size description：47×64 (70×107)

Introduction：Chou Cheng, also known as Shunbo, was born in 1941 in Toucheng City, Yilan County, Taiwan. In his youth, he followed his fellow townsman Kang Yan-Quan (Zaishan) to study painting, calligraphy and literature. Later, while studying at the Fine Arts Department of National Taiwan Normal University, he was a student of Chiang Chao-Shen, focusing on calligraphy, painting, seal carving, and poetry. Chou Cheng is a renowned ink painter, calligrapher, seal carver, and poet of his generation in Taiwan who excels in all four arts. As Chiang Chao-Shen was a direct disciple of Pu Hsin-Yu (Pu Ru), Chou Cheng inherited Pu's school of painting, fusing the compositional tradition of Song Dynasty Academy painting with the brush and ink charm of Yuan and Ming literati to form a style that, after internalization, moves from traditional to modern.

In addition, Chou Cheng traveled all over the world to sketch in the field, gaining a deep understanding of various landscapes and geographical forms, with a special fondness for landscape painting. This work showcases his years of skill, delicately depicting the landscape of Lengshuikeng Depression in Yangmingshan, vividly depicting the extensive silver grass with soft and elegant brush strokes. The rich shades of ink color dynamically depict the changing weather of Yangmingshan. In addition, the painting includes tourists, villages, pavilions, and small bridges, adding a vibrant breath, as if the serene painting has come to life, becoming a "living work".

Chou Cheng's landscapes reflect the harmony and myriad forms between man and nature. Whether shrouded in mist or bathed in sunshine, they achieve a sublime realm of unity of body and mind, and the forgetting of self and object. The elegant and detailed brush strokes express the deep inner soul on paper. Through the above analysis, viewers can clearly understand the formal characteristics and philosophical concepts of Chou Cheng's creations and feel as if they are in the scene.

Accession Number:PT09793700

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