【Thursday Art Appreciation】From the Minute to the Marvelous→Taiwan's Hyperrealistic Painting Exhibition Debuts at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts

Written/Compiled and Reported by MOOK Scenic Spots Family Travel Life Network, Chen Guanxin

 

The National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts' "From the Minute to the Marvelous→Taiwan Hyperrealistic Paintings" exhibition runs from now until April 20. The show brings together nearly 100 works by 13 Taiwanese artists from different generations, aiming to showcase their individual creative concepts and atmospheres developed through meticulous and cautious painting techniques within the context of "hyperrealistic painting," forming a rich array of visual vocabularies.

The exhibition content is curated by curator Liu Yongren, who seeks to continue the spirit of hyperrealistic depiction. With a focus on the development of photorealistic art among Taiwanese artists in the 1970s as the main theme, the exhibition invites works by artists who were living in New York at the time and made outstanding contributions to this movement, such as Xia Yang, Han Xiangning, Chen Zhaohong, Situ Qiang, Yao Qingzhang, and Zhuo Yourui. It also pays attention to the diverse developments of Taiwanese artists within this context since the 1980s. These include artists like Li Zuoxin and Guo Chun, who use hyperrealistic brushwork to depict surreal, magical scenes akin to fantasy landscapes; as well as artists like Huang Mingchang and Ye Ziqi, who return from international art trends to express humanistic care for their native land. Others, like Gu Hezhong, Zhou Zhuwang, and Huang Jianing, transform life experiences into serene inner stories of scenery and objects.

In the development of modern art, hyperrealism, which emerged in New York in the 1970s, is known for its highly realistic techniques and delicate depictions, also referred to as Photorealism. This painting style is an art movement born from modern civilization, where artists use cameras to photograph subjects into photos or slides, then project the images onto canvas using a slide projector, and finally render the visual effects of the subjects faithfully on the canvas with highly trained realistic techniques—without personal subjective emotion—reproducing the original appearance just like a photograph. At that time, the subject matter mostly came from the ever-changing urban landscape, such as the glass of city buildings, store windows, signs, crowds, street scenes, and the complex interplay of light and shadow. Hyperrealistic painting can be described as a genre derived from urban lifestyles, presenting artificially created natural scenes.

 

 

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