Author:Li Kun-Pe

Size:Length:75 x Width:95 (cm)

Size description：55.5×76 (畫心)

Introduction： Li Kun-Pei (1934-2012), born in Guangdong, studied at National Taiwan Normal University under Huang Chun-Pi, Pu Hsin-Yu, Liao Chi-Chun, Ma Pa-Shui, and other renowned masters. Adept in watercolors, Li has served as a lecturer at the National Taiwan Normal University and served as a judge for art competitions several times. He received numerous awards and frequent invitations to exhibit at home and abroad throughout his career. In Li's early days, he was known for his British watercolor style in the art field, but later personally found that such style lacked volume and formality. Hence, he began his quest of searching. Later, Li realized the potential to combine the beauty of lines in oriental painting and the beauty of colors in occidental paintings. He was deeply influenced by the oriental painting style as well as modern occidental ideas and their symbolic concepts. Since then, Li has learned to integrate opaque watercolor, lines in oriental paintings, and Cubism's distinct division of shape and space in his work. As a result, his works often have vivid color choices and lively symbolic lines. Not confined to one school of thought, his works were known for their uniqueness, interdisciplinary, and flexibility.
This work portrays the National Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial Hall standing in the busy streets of Taipei. The artist, adopting his usual simple and authentic style, uses various color blocks as well as smooth and rhythmic lines to let lead the viewers' gaze to the Memorial Hall. The light-heartedness of his paintings and the artist's sensual and lyrical approach create a harmonious and rhythmic picture full of laid-back and mellow countryside interest. Regardless of the strong uses of colors or distorted object shapes, Li has purposefully lost the actual object's shape but left behind the abstract beauty of the painting. The gorgeous colors and lines reveal the artist's vitality.

Accession Number:PT09786500