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Oil Painting
Juror's Statement, Oil Painting Category SU Hsien-Fa

This year sees the 26th edition of the Da Dun Fine Arts Exhibition, an annual grand event held by Taichung City Government. Every year, budding
artists enter this exhibition in great numbers and amaze us with their promising artworks. Artists in every generation show us new ways of creating art and
discovering new dimensions by expressing their personal thoughts and feelings through artworks. In the same way, submissions to this year's exhibition
managed to refresh our views on art. These pieces deserve our detailed appreciation and praise. This year, a total of 354 works were submitted to the Oil
Painting Category of the Da Dun Fine Arts Exhibition, including 48 from overseas. All submissions met high standards, with groundbreaking forms and
profound, novel themes. Five jurors were invited by the organizer to review the entries: CHUANG Min-Chung, SHIH Bing-Shyi, HUANG Hsiao-Yen, CHANG Hwei-
Lan, and me. After rigorous assessment in the preliminary and nal review rounds, we nally selected 36 prize-winning works, namely the top three winners,
ve Award of Merit recipients, and 28 shortlisted works.
The winner of First Prize is PAI Mu-Chun's Red line-barrier, in which the artist depicts grass elds and the sky in a realist, detailed manner. The painstaking
illustration of the grass shows the orderly disorder characteristic of nature. In front of the landscape is the line of a fence drawn in a seemingly hard-edge
painting style. This horizontal line brings an abrupt end to the dense, realist grass elds, while the cracked paint on the fence adds texture to the otherwise
uniform surface. Overall, the composition conveys harmonious beauty and contrast amid organized patterns. The Second Prize winner, JHANG Ru-An's
Dimensions of Interpersonal Relationships is full of life and energy, conveyed through outstanding, novel techniques. The colors applied are di erent hues of
green, with pouring techniques used on occasions to create an intriguing space through overlapping color blocks complemented with smaller blocks in warm
colors, producing subtle variations. The two stray dogs chasing each other in the woods bring a dynamic feel to the still background. The winner of Third Prize,
Please Wait while Forming by KUO Shu-Yu, uses a light gray palette to produce a combination of surrealist and abstract art. The focus of this painting are human
bodies depicted in such postures that they almost give a sense of pretentious sadness. Lines and shapes are presented in a very dramatic way, inducing the
viewer to feel on edge, while relief is intensi ed by the contrast between light and dark and by the use of contour shading and geometric shapes. The lines
between layers, patterns, and the background evoke an elegant, minimalist atmosphere.
Five works were chosen as Awards of Merit recipients. CHEN Wei-Shiun's Missing phototaxis is a very imaginative work, in which the artist divides the
landscape into pieces and then reassembles these fragments with interspersed manmade objects{windows, iron bars, and staircases, to produce a con icting
space. In The empty seat, HUANG Hui-Ping skillfully applies the at wash technique and creates subtle hues in every color block to suit di erent objects. The
sharp lines of objects are accomplished using printmaking techniques to represent a war narrative, a one-of-a-kind style. In Nobody series-Belongings, CHEN
Liang-Tu arranges home accessories in clusters, applies a range of high-chroma colors to produce strong contrasts, and then places tiny human gures of
various appearances among them, reminiscent of the fairy tale Gulliver's Travels.
TSAI Ren-De's Indoor showcase presents a multidimensional indoor space through abstract geometric shapes and color blocks arranged in irregular zigzag
patterns. The work is remarkable both in terms of color and form. LIN Tzu-Chiung's Soul fairy tales-encounter is weaved by Barbie dolls in di erent out ts that
form an appealing story. Surreal Barbie dolls correspond to objects that are remotely placed at the bottom and the top. The shadows of dolls and objects
enhance the image's relief. This pure, innocent children's story unfolded against a snowy white backdrop makes this artwork particularly interesting. There are
many more excellent paintings among shortlisted submissions, showing how hard artists worked; they are not awarded simply because of the limited number
of prizes. We hope that both winners and non-winners will keep up their creative output tirelessly, participate in the Da Dun Fine Arts Exhibitions in the future,
and impress us again with their skills and talents.

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