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Jury's Comments, Glue Color Painting Category CHAN Chien-Yu ᇭ੹ᗳ
Glue Color
Painting

The Glue Color Painting Category of the Da Dun Fine Arts Exhibition boasts the 3, a work that explores problems of life in the age of technology. In a non-realistic,
longest history among Glue Color Painting contests and exhibitions in Taiwan. Its imaginary space, a little girl endeavors to overcome the obstacles of di erent ages. The
importance has gradually increased in the eyes of foreign artists; all contestants have gentle gray-tone colors depict many geometric column-shaped symbols, which leave
entered with their most representative masterpiece. This year, despite the impact of the much room for interpretation by the audience.
COVID-19 pandemic, the Glue Color Painting Category still received 42 submissions. Two works won the Award of Merit. One of them is CHEN Po-Hsin's Vitality which
Among them, six submissions were from overseas, including China, Iran, Russia, and depicts the exuberant vitality of the century-old sago palms in front of an old Japanese
Honduras. Nine works were shortlisted by the five judges{LEE Chen-Hui, LIAO Jui- house. The artist cleverly incorporates dark colors for the background, and white lines
Fen, FAN Su-Luan, NI Yu-Shan and me. After several voting rounds at secondary review, paired with bright colors for the plants. Powerful visual tension is formed to praise the
winners of the top three prizes and the Award of Merit, as well as shortlisted works were beauty of plant life. The other winner of the Award of Merit is LIU Shang-Ni's The Girl
selected, 9 in total. The process was rigorous because we hoped to select winning works under protection, a work in which a sleeping beauty and a cactus inside a glass pot form
that not only were outstanding but also best re ected contemporary ethos. a representation of the artist's family. With the artist's excellent depiction skills, the
The winner of the rst prize this year is KUO Ya-Chieh's Suffering Jiutian. The work's work's unique scene creates a dreamlike yet unsettling atmosphere.
creative concept is inspired by the Mysterious Woman of the Ninth Heaven (Jiutian The shortlisted works are also of very high standards, but due to the limited number
Xuannü) in an ancient Chinese text, Classic of the Mountains: West from The Classics of of awards, they are not introduced and commented on individually. On the whole,
Mountains and Seas (Shan Hai Jing). This legendary goddess with a human head and a the subject matter, style, techniques, and creativity presented were more richer and
bird's body experienced the devastation of the forest res and COVID-19 pandemic over captivating than what was seen in previous years, breaking away from traditional
the past year. She, too, fell victim to the calamities. The artist skillfully used Glue Color Glue Color Painting traditions. Creators of the younger generations are living free,
Painting techniques (such as paper crumpling and gold lea ng) to add rich colors and democratic lifestyles and experiencing digitized learning environments. They widely
textures. With satirical thinking and a metaphorical idea, an ancient subject matter was receive inspiration from creation using various media. The emphasis they place on
combined with current events in contemporary fashion, thus earning approval from the contemporary issues, such as culture, society, gender, and technology, surpasses that of
judges. past creators. I sense that the golden age of Taiwanese Glue Color Painting is arriving at
The winner of the second prize was HUNG Hsin's Fading-1, which expresses the an accelerating pace.
beauty in the withering of life through the changes between false and true withered
branches. The artist, who boldly experimented with silhouettes, used intaglio
printmaking techniques in the foreground to create an interesting space alongside the
scenes in a mid- and long-range distance. The twists and turns of the branches deliver
strong life force; however, the white branches in the top left corner could have been
handled better.
The work that won the third prize is KAO Mei-Chuan's As Long as I Grow Up Part

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