Author:Hsieh Jung-Yuan

Size:Length:70 x Width:135 (cm)

Size description：89x176x2.8(含框)

Introduction： Hsieh Jung-Yuan (1948- ) was born in Tianwei Township, Changhua County, and graduated from Fine Arts Department of National Institute of Arts and Graduate School of Fine Arts of National Taiwan Normal University. He is a Taiwanese ink and wash painter. He studied ink and wash with renowned masters such as Huang Chun-Pi, Lin Yu-Shan, Fu Chuan-Fu, Su Feng-Nan, Sun Yun-Sheng, Lai Ching-Cheng and Chin Chin-Po. Serving as a professor at National Taipei University of Technology, Hsieh also serves as a member of the Chinese Art Association, the Association for Taiwan Literature, Ching-Hsi Literary and Art Association, the Wurong Painting Association, and Changhua County Art Association. Hsieh has held solo exhibitions in Taipei and Taichung and has published "Advanced Landscape Painting" (1987), "A Study on the Relationship between Forest Painting and Arboriculture in Landscape Painting of the Tang and Song Dynasties" (Master's thesis), "On Tradition and Innovation" (1998 professor's thesis), and several other books.
In the postmodern era, ink painting has undergone numerous influences from western arts. The degree of transformation in response to the era has been the most controversial issue. The liberals mostly criticized traditional paintings' mundanity and adopted numerous modern European and American art techniques for reformation. In the face of this criticism, traditional painters have also tried to revive themselves. Post-war Taiwanese Artists such as Lin Yu-Shan and Fu Chuan-Fu emphasize the reconciliation of different cultural elements from oriental, occidental, Taiwan, and Japan. Most painters of the era revived still life drawing as the guide to correct conservative conventions of Chinese paintings. Since then, still-life drawing has become an essential genre in the post-war Taiwan ink painting scene and its "modern ink and wash" field.
During his studies, famous ink and wash artists from the Art Institute and the National Taiwan Normal University, which adopted the post-war still life drawing style, dramatically influenced and inspired Hsieh Jung-Yuan's later works.
The painting depicts a jagged mountain scene in the sunset with a realistic touch. In the foreground, several pines are painted in the lower right. In the middle ground, clouds and fogs mystified the distant mountains and the horizons. Hsieh's transparent layers of brushwork, ink rhythms, and relaxed atmosphere contribute to the vitality of ink wash paintings.

Accession Number:PT09500200