Sustainable Environment: Seeing the Beauty of Nature with Artists

Art transcends language, conveying complex meaning, eternal existence, and spatial expansiveness. Artists use diverse media, whether tangible or abstract, to create visual images to reflect their life experiences, thoughts, concepts, and emotions. The Art Center of National Chung Hsing University (NCHU) proudly presents three of Taiwan’s renowned artists, showcasing works in oil painting, ink painting, and puppet installations, among other media. Each piece reflects the artist’s lifestyle and cultural heritage, offering insights into humanistic care and multifaceted perspectives.

Half-Century of Artistic Path: Yen-Nang Yang's Oil Paintings

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Yen-Nang Yang masterfully incorporates vibrant and auspicious colors of Taiwanese folk traditions—gold, indigo, red, and black—into his fragmented structures, layered blocks, and flowing lines. His works exemplify the allure of Eastern visual aesthetics with simple yet striking compositions. The textures of trees and mountain walls are meticulously detailed, with natural symbols like moss and mottled bark interwoven into the landscapes. Through artistic language, Yang’s paintings reveal rich layers of texture and depth.

Balancing theory with technique and drawing from careful observation of nature, Yang’s works combine innovative ideas and dynamic energy. He transforms intuitive impressions into abstract forms, communicating profound thoughts and extending life experiences onto the canvas. The evolution of his style throughout different stages reflects his inner emotional landscapes. While rooted in Western abstraction, his style maintains deep local sentiment, radiating vitality and joy.

Creation is a spiritual endeavor that must begin with life itself as its solid “foundation.” Contrasting urban noise and haste, Yang finds inspiration in nature’s tranquility. This connection to nature offers viewers both aesthetic experience and philosophical reflections.

Intended Creation of Nature: Chun-Sheng Wang's Ink Paintings

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Professor Chun-Sheng Wang has spent decades practicing various artistic media, including watercolor, acrylic, and ink painting, emphasizing equally on creativity and theoretical understanding. Through deep exploration, he has honed his expertise in the distinct characteristics of each medium. Eventually, he applied this knowledge to ink painting, merging Eastern spatial awareness with Western perspective. His works seamlessly blend the realism of watercolor, the textured depth of acrylic, and the metaphysical allure of ink, showcasing his refined and nuanced observations of nature and aesthetics.

Wang's creations express philosophical reflections, drawing inspiration from nature while offering deep introspection. His compositions serve as a medium for self-exploration, combining subjective color techniques, temporal-spatial variations, and layers of light, shadow, and perspectives. Through overlaid images and occasional visual displacements, his works express complex emotions and artistic creation, particularly in exploring humanity, bringing modernity to traditional Chinese ink painting.

Professor Wang believes each universe element possesses unique form. While artistic expressions shift with time and space, artistic creation’s core essence transcends boundaries. In his view, art is about observing objects, expressing emotions, and manifesting the inner artistic vision.

Collective Memory of Cultural Heritage: Chun-Ming Huang's Visual and Literary Art

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Chun-Ming Huang, a national treasure-level master of literature, is renowned for his deep concern for grassroots figures and vivid portrayal of local dialects. His work diversely spans essays, poetry, scripts, and children's literature, with several novels adapted to films. Beyond literature, Huang channels creative energy into visual art, including torn paper paintings, oil paintings, ink paintings, Taiwanese leaf drawings, and puppet installations for children’s theater.

In children's drama “Little Sparrow and the Scarecrow,” Huang addresses mutualism, ecological sustainability, and environmental protection, issues of pressing importance today. In another notable work “New Peach Blossom Spring,” he explores land-people connections, illustrating how an ideal world, symbolized by the Peach Blossom Spring, can flourish through community development and inner nurturing.
Huang’s literary creations serve as both artistic expressions and era records, becoming part of our collective memory and cultural heritage.