By / MOOK Scenic Spots Editorial Team, compiled and reported
A comic master enters the Palace Museum for the first time ever!“A Millennium’s Question – The Palace Museum Zheng Wen Grand Exhibition” is the first-ever special exhibition at the Palace Museum dedicated to a Taiwanese-born comic artist. On display are hundreds of precious original drafts, sketches, and a variety of works created during the master’s lifetime, and the phrase “A Millennium’s Question” means “a once-in-a-millennium genius like Zheng Wen.”
A comic master enters the Palace Museum for the first time ever!“A Millennium’s Question – The Palace Museum Zheng Wen Grand Exhibition” is the first-ever special exhibition at the Palace Museum dedicated to a Taiwanese-born comic artist. On display are hundreds of precious original drafts, sketches, and a variety of works created during the master’s lifetime, and the phrase “A Millennium’s Question” means “a once-in-a-millennium genius like Zheng Wen.”
Left image: “The Hell Sword,” right image: “Zheng Wen’s Romance of the Three Kingdoms.” (Photo / Zheng Wen’s Palace Museum Exhibition, the same below)
The world’s first comic artist to enter the Palace Museum, Zheng Wen, whose real name is Zheng Jinwen, was born in Daxi District, Taoyuan City, Taiwan. He was the first Taiwanese comic artist to stun all of Japan, the creator behind the first Japanese game named after a Taiwanese writer — “Zheng Wen’s Romance of the Three Kingdoms,” and the first non-Japanese to receive Japan’s highest industry honor — the Comics Association’s Excellence Award (for his work “Heroes of the Eastern Zhou”). Also, “The Thunderbolt Fantasy” was the first comic serialized in Hong Kong by a Taiwanese artist. Japan’s Asahi Shimbun praised him as a “genius, a wonder, an eccentric talent” in the comic world, unequaled for twenty years.
“A Millennium’s Question – The Palace Museum Zheng Wen Grand Exhibition” displays many precious original drafts by Teacher Zheng Wen.
In addition to presenting Zheng Wen’s all-encompassing and astonishing achievements, this exhibition showcases original comic drafts, illustration drafts, character design manuscripts, script drafts, hand-sculpted prototypes, statues, and technique documentaries. Through original works spanning thirty years, it reconstructs the extraordinarily brilliant creative journey of Teacher Zheng Wen’s life.
A documentary recreating Zheng Wen’s painting techniques.
Zheng Wen combined Eastern and Western techniques to develop his own unique ink wash and acrylic painting styles, and with unprecedentedly exquisite brushwork and dramatic compositional tension in comics, he not only challenged the world’s imagination of art but also shone a light on Taiwanese comics on the international stage.
Zheng Wen’s Romance of the Three Kingdoms: The Three Houses Submit to Jin
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