Lot  64 Ravenel Autumn Auction 2006

Ravenel Autumn Auction 2006

The Song of Winter Snow

CHUANG Che (Taiwanese, 1934)

1989

Acrylic on canvas

126 x 126 cm

Estimate

TWD 820,000-980,000

HKD 196,000-234,000

USD 25,100-30,000

Sold Price

TWD 2,124,000

HKD 513,912

USD 65,718


Signature

Signed lower right Chuang Che in Chinese

+ OVERVIEW

Born in 1934, Beijing, China; migrated to Taiwan in 1948. Chuang Che is the key member of the famous Fifth Moon Group in Taiwan, and moved to the United States in 1973. The major feature of Chuang's work is that he traces back to the Chinese ink technique from the National Palace Museum collections, and apply to western modern paintings, he intentionally infiltrates the "brush strokes"from Chinese paintings into western paintings, so the eastern and western integrates, becomes his unique style. From an artistic point of view, eastern painting and calligraphy embraced resolute and mild, sparse and concentrated, ying and yang, dense and pale, wither and moist. Chuang is an artist who emphasizes the "brush strength" through the Chinese book and script style of writing, represents the landscape of the nature; as an effort to return to the primitives of the calligraphy.

In this "Song of the Winter Snow" Chuang Che used both splash and quick painting techniques, in combination with the calligraphy writing expression, to manifest the beauty of life through turns and twists, and the birth of all God's creations. The changeable painting with flowing ink and the blankness in the Chinese water ink painting brings out the poetic tranquility and carefree style. Different from Western techniques, Chuang incorporated the image of winter snow in his subconsciousness with Oriental perceptive expression, so that the abstractness of the painting is presented with solid and dense texture. The free-flowing lines and rich colors construct the rhythm and sound of this painting. The endless white romance is being brought to live in every audience's heart.

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Ravenel Autumn Auction 2006

Sunday, December 3, 2006, 12:00am