Lot  40 Ravenel Spring Auction 2006

Ravenel Spring Auction 2006

Opportune Moment

CHUANG Che (Taiwanese, 1934)

1995

Oil on canvas

126.8 x 167.5 cm

Estimate

TWD 900,000-1,100,000

USD 27,700-33,900

Sold Price

TWD 2,360,000

USD 73,669


Signature

Signed lower right Chuang Che in Chinese and dated 2000
Signed on the reverse Chuang Che and dated 1995

+ OVERVIEW

Chuang Che was born in 1934 in Beijing, and started his career in America in 1973. He loved and influenced by his father's calligraphies and the paintings in The Palace Museum in Beijing, and he gradually combined traditional Chinese paintings' "painting style" and western paintings, and formed his individual style. The brush stroke from Chinese Calligraphy can be easily discovered in his abstractive paintings, it can be solid or soft, thin or thick, dense or light, dry or wet, he brought back the primitives of calligraphy, and uses it to paint the world.

In "Opportune Moment" the brush strokes that went from sides to the middle, with multiple color arrangements, like tides gather in the middle, and become one on the top, like a waterfall that goes out of the picture; Chuang Che's calligraphy brush strokes are wild and can be easily distinguished through his using of colors, it's imposing and volatile, gives viewers a splendid joy; he sedulously left white spaces on the sides, and made a contrast to the middle, it's a hint of Chinese's hollowness and reality, Ying and Yang concepts, and this poetic, sincere, plain and eastern features are Chuang Che's major styles.

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Ravenel Spring Auction 2006

Sunday, June 4, 2006, 12:00am