"Chen Jingrong - Art Achievements in the Ninety Years" is on display at the Boai Art Gallery of the Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hall from now until December 18.

Breakthrough Chen Jingrong "Ensemble under the Moon", oil on canvas, 229x334.5 cm, 2021.

(Provided by Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hall) [Reporter Tu Yingru/Taipei Report] The "Chen Jingrong-Ninety Styles Art Achievement Exhibition" co-organized by the Ministry of Culture and the Chen Jingrong Art, Culture and Education Foundation, will be held at the Boai Gallery of the Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hall from now until December 18 It is a year-end and year-end exhibition of the Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hall. 109 works fully present the artist Chen Jingrong's nearly 70-year creative career.

Professor Chen Jingrong is an artist in Taiwan's art world who has diversified creations such as oil paintings, murals, mosaics, prints, and ceramic paintings. He is known as the master of Taiwan's surrealism.

After 1986, he lived in Paris, France for a long time. In his paintings, the mysterious and lonely feeling of low saturation is the main theme. He is a representative painter of Taiwan's surrealist style.

(Provided by the Chen Jingrong Art, Culture and Education Foundation) Chen Jingrong is an artist in Taiwan's art scene who has diversified creations such as oil paintings, murals, mosaics, prints, and ceramic paintings. He is known as a master of Taiwan's surrealism.

Nearly 90 years old, he has hung his life on artistic creation all his life, and his feedback and dedication in art, academia, and society are all admirable.

Sheng Jingrong has great enthusiasm and perseverance in the pursuit of art. The number of works is rich and diverse. This exhibition is divided into 6 major themes, including surrealism, religion and humanities, aboriginal people and hometown, figures and still life, global view Vision and cross-border cross-art.

The content covers works of art, manuscripts, books and documents, etc., showing Chen Jingrong's artistic history in the context of multiple types of artistic creation.

Chen Jingrong, "Coffee Shops in Paris", oil on canvas, 91×116.5 cm.

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Mosaic creation by artist Chen Jingrong, left <Come for Tea>, right <Flowers and Butterfly Dream>.

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It opened a few days ago. On behalf of the Minister of Culture Li Yongde, Deputy Minister of Culture Xiao Zonghuang welcomed Chen Jingrong to handle this exhibition. He is the first Taiwanese scholar who has obtained a master's degree in mural painting from Tokyo University of the Arts in Japan. He is very proficient in various media techniques. Because most of them were donated to the collections of Changhua High School, Hualien Mennonite Hospital, and the Vatican Museum, they rarely have the opportunity to see them. Two mosaic paintings are exhibited this time.

As the ancestor of Taiwan's surreal painting school, the unique blue-gray tone of Chen Jingrong's paintings may seem gloomy at first glance, but there are glimmers of light hidden in the darkness. The moon and street lamps often seen in his works bring infinite hope.

Chen Jingrong <Miss Majiajia>, oil on canvas, 48 ​​x 32 cm.

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This is Chen Jingrong's second exhibition at the Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hall after 13 years. Wang Lanshen, the curator of the Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hall, mentioned that the "heavyweight" works exhibited this time include murals, mosaics and large-scale oil paintings, symbolizing Professor Chen's outstanding artistic achievements Achievement.

He mentioned that Professor Chen is an optimistic, lively and warm elder. His quiet and steady creations show the state of "concentration, tranquility, peace, concern, and gain". There is always a trace of warmth and light in the darkness of his works.

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Chen Jingrong "Buddha and Indian Girl", oil on canvas, 193.5 x 130 cm.

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Chen Jingrong talked about the works exhibited this time, especially his creative pictures are mostly blue-gray, and the composition always makes people feel lonely; when he explains his creation, he often tries to present literary meanings with visual pictures, blue-gray can also be a moonlit night The hazy beauty of dating, or poetic expression, not only represents the darkness but welcomes the light.

Chen Jingrong's "Statue of a Knight and Nude", oil on canvas, 162x228 cm, won the Silver Medal of the French Artists Salon in 1999.

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"Chen Jingrong-Ninety Fenghua Artistic Achievements Exhibition" includes 6 major themes: Surrealism, Religion and Humanities, Aboriginal People and Hometowns, Figures and Still Lifes, Global Views, Cross-Boundary and Cross-Art.

Content covers works of art, manuscripts, books, and literature.

(Provided by Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hall)

Chen Jingrong's works often have a gray and cold loneliness, emphasizing a solid sketch foundation and rigorous composition.

In the early days of his creation, thin and sad figures, desolate landscapes and streets often appeared in his paintings, and the gray and cold tones presented a quiet and lonely aesthetic feeling without losing strong vitality.

Among them, the square, still life, nude, and knight series are treated with blue-gray tones, blending classical colors with the mysterious style of surrealism. This creative feature of silence and sadness has always been Chen Jingrong's unique personal style.

In addition to continuing the previous characteristics, his later creations added nostalgic meditation and life philosophy. He was also the first person to create surrealist paintings in Taiwan.

The nearly 90-year-old national treasure master Chen Jingrong demonstrated mosaic painting kung fu on the spot at the forum. Nearly a hundred people at the scene saw the master's painting with their own eyes and were greatly amazed.

(Provided by Chen Jingrong Art, Culture and Education Foundation)

The art exhibition also held an art forum, and invited many experts and scholars in the art world to share the analysis of Chen Jingrong's works, including Huang Guangnan, the president of the Front Taiwan Normal University, Wang Zhexiong, the director of the Fine Arts Department of the Front Taiwan Normal University, Su Xianxian, the chairman of the Tainan Art Museum, and Asia University. Pan Chen, curator of the Modern Art Museum, Bai Shiming, director of the Institute of Fine Arts of National Taiwan Normal University, and Dong Zeping, dean of the School of Innovative Industry and International Studies of Chung Hsing University, all participated in the special speeches.

(Provided by Chen Jingrong Art, Culture and Education Foundation)

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