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Size:Length:56 x Width:76 (cm)

Size description：77x96x2.8(含框)

Introduction：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.

Accession Number:PT09791400

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