By MOOK Scenic Spots Family Travel Life Network, reported by Chen Guanxin
The “From Minute Details to Blooming Insights→Taiwan Hyperrealistic Painting” exhibition at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum runs from now until April 20. This exhibition gathers nearly 100 works by 13 Taiwanese artists from various generations, aiming to present their unique creative concepts and atmospheres developed through meticulous and careful painting techniques within the context of “hyperrealistic painting,” forming a rich array of visual expressions.
Oil painting “Seaside 23” by artist Chen Chao-hung. (Image provided by Taipei Fine Arts Museum)
The exhibition is curated by Liu Yongren, who seeks to continue the spirit of hyperrealistic depiction. It focuses on the development of photo-realistic art by Taiwanese artists in the 1970s as its main theme, featuring works by artists who were living and excelling in New York during that trend, such as Xia Yang, Han Xiangning, Chen Chao-hung, Situ Qiang, Yao Qingzhang, and Zhuo Yourui. It also highlights the diverse developments of Taiwanese artists in this context since the 1980s. These include artists like Li Zu-xin and Guo Chun, who depict magical, surreal scenes with hyperrealistic brushwork; as well as those like Huang Mingchang and Ye Ziqi, who return to a humanistic concern for their native land from the perspective of international art trends, or artists like Gu Hezhong, Zhou Zhuwang, and Huang Jianing, who transform personal life experiences into serene inner landscapes and stories.
Oil painting “Guide” by artist Gu Hezhong. (Image provided by Taipei Fine Arts Museum)
In the development of modern art, hyperrealism, which emerged in 1970s New York, is known for its highly realistic techniques and intricate details, also referred to as Photorealism. Its artistic expression is a genre born from modern civilization. Artists use cameras to photograph subjects into photos or slides, then project the images onto canvas using slide projectors, and finally render the visual effects of the subjects faithfully on the canvas with highly trained realist skills—without any subjective emotion—reproducing the original scene just like a photograph. The subject matter at the time often came from the ever-changing urban landscapes, such as the glass of city buildings, shop windows, signs, crowds, street scenes, and the complex interplay of light and shadow. Hyperrealistic painting can be described as a product of urban lifestyle, presenting artificially created natural scenes.
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