Oil Painting

2008

Length:162 x Width:130 (cm)

Chuang Ming-Chung (b. 1963, Taichung) holds a Master of Fine Arts from National Taiwan Normal University and a Doctorate in Oil Painting from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. He currently teaches at National Taichung University of Education and concurrently at National Taiwan Normal University, among others. He has served as a juror for major art exhibitions, including the National Art Exhibition, National Grand-Scale Oil Painting Exhibition, Taiwan Contemporary Art Exhibition, Dadun Fine Arts Exhibition, Federal Youth Art Award, and New Taipei City Art Exhibition. Chuang’s works have received numerous awards, including recognition from the Taiwan Provincial Art Exhibition, the Provincial Public Servants’ Exhibition, and the Chung Hsing Cultural and Arts Award. His works have been exhibited in Taiwan, China, the United States, Japan, Korea, Australia, Spain, and Mexico.
The Great Migration, painted in 2008, is a representative piece from Chuang’s Ancient Civilization series. Inspired by archaeological discoveries in Mongolia—particularly its rich deposits of dinosaur fossils—Chuang was stirred by a deep sense of historical imagination. Employing his signature compositional method of spatial juxtaposition, he brings together imagery from disparate eras: the skeletal remains of dinosaurs are reimagined galloping across the vast grasslands of the Mongolian Gobi Desert. The painting is dominated by hues of yellow and green. Through the careful arrangement of light, shadow, and textured color blocks, Chuang creates a layered visual field imbued with a strong sense of time and memory. The dinosaurs appear to move through a temporal dimension, enacting a “great migration” that transcends geological epochs—a poetic convergence of past and present across space and time.

Accession number:20190100053