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Jury's Comments, Printmaking Category HSIEH Li-Fa و೥ᗳ
Printmaking

The ve judges for the Printmaking Category of this year's (the 25th) Da Dun Fine at the exhibition venue, including oil paintings, watercolor paintings, and gouache
Arts Exhibition are CHUNG You-Hui, YANG Ming-Dye, SHEN Chin-Yuan, CHEN Kuo-Chan, paintings, the prints fall second none. This shows that there is an increasing number of
and HSIEH Li-Fa. They served as the judges throughout the preliminary review and nal people engaging in printmaking.
review, and for the past few years, the judging process of the exhibition has always With dimensions 71cmÒ97cm, "Confused" was the theme of the work by CHIANG
unfolded very smoothly. Chih-Hsuan and the winner of the first place in the Printmaking Category this year.
The number of works submitted this year is 45, which is much less than the works Grooves are engraved into acrylic sheets by using a method similar to the traditional
received in other painting categories. However, the quality of the works was more etching or engraving of metal plates. Today, artists of the younger generations know
remarkable than expected. Six of them were from Hong Kong, Malaysia, Poland, the to make use of acrylic sheets, which seem to allow a more a ordable and convenient
United States, and Greece. In fact, several contestants were foreign artists who live creation process. The artist said that the patterns made up of fine lines express the
in Taiwan and created their works in local printmaking studios or the printmaking sentiment of "having responsibilities, ties, and attachments in life, sometimes feeling
classrooms of the art departments of universities. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the confused and frustrated as expectations and plans are suddenly disrupted by the
number of works that were actually sent in from overseas dropped a lot compared to global pandemic". The judges got hooked on this statement. Upon further discussion,
past years. "Confused" was considered the only work that incorporated a theme based on current
After the preliminary review (on May 3), 10 works were shortlisted. These included events. It thus earned general approval and was selected as this year's best creation.
works of various printmaking types, and we were especially glad to see submissions
of prints created with traditional woodcuts and etched metal plates. It is evident that
printmaking has made progress in Taiwan. There was also the addition of various new
surface types and print methods. And as it was encouraged by the Da Dun Fine Arts
Exhibition in the past years, works submitted have increased in size. Compared to the
size of my own works submitted to exhibitions abroad (about 40 years ago), the sizes of
the works today are two to three times larger. When being exhibited next to other works

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