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Juror's Statement

LIN Chin-Hsien

類 油 畫
The Oil Painting category of this year's Da Dun Fine Arts Exhibition received 451 entries, among which 22 were overseas, including two from
Mainland China, two from Hong Kong, twelve from Mongolia, two from Malaysia, one from India, two from Serbia, and one from Moldova. This shows
that the international reach of the Oil Painting category is worth the effort.
We should know that every generation has its contemporary aesthetic views, and it has been nearly one hundred years since the 1927 Futen (Taiwan
Governor-General's Art Exhibition) first called for submissions of oil painting, which was categorized under Seiyoga (Western Painting). One thing must
be pointed out is that under the instructions of Japanese artists living in Taiwan at the time, such as KINICHIRO ISHIKAWA and TOHO SHIOTSUKI,
local Taiwanese artists gradually learned that observing, depicting, and imagining real environment could be an attitude or method to bring artistic
language closer to, or enable it to reflect, reality. Since then, the phenomenon of using "observation of life" and "environmental awareness" as themes
has been observed at Provincial Fine Arts Exhibition and National Fine Arts Exhibition, or even the various types of art exhibitions in Taiwan today. As
for the development of Da Dun Fine Arts Exhibition today, we are more than happy to see expanding scopes of topics and expressive forms, hoping to
display the free and vibrant culture and aesthetic thinking of our society through art exhibitions. Oil Painting
This year's First Prize went to "Comfort and Sadness." LIAO Wem-Pin's bases his observation on civilization on humanitarian spirit, and utilizes the
"conflicting contents" in the near and far grounds to masterfully shine light on the tragedy of mankind's destruction of nature. Formally, the author draws
inspiration from the leisure posture of crossed legs, and uses fabric gloves to symbolize the development of industrial civilization, implying our opposing
relationship with nature in real life. The artist has three Taiwan blue magpies flying away from this environment, which implies that many animals are
also facing extinction. The changes and fate of nature are closely tied with us, and we must be alerted and aware!
Second Prize went to "Yoga." Artist YEH Chih-Hang's statement focuses on his thoughts on the use of the medium and the interesting construct,
opening up the content and implication of the painting for viewers to freely interpret. It should be added that the painting depicts an indoor space
and young people doing yoga, and it seems that a "planarization" strategy is adopted for the color scheme used, such as their clothes and the floor, to
deliberately imply a desire-free life attitude? It is surely a "philosophical" work.
Third Prize winner is "Falling Leaves are Not Just for Returning to the Roots." According to artist LEE Zhi-Wei's statement, he expresses the
opposing relationship between substances and the figure to manage the implicative direction of the painting, and tries to "blur" the boundary between
reality and artistic fantasy, expressing the connection between men and nature through metaphor and inspiring own contemplation on life. True, the
carefully designed loveliness of the figure in the painting seems to have a strange sense of conflict with the primitivity of nature. I believe this realistic
technique is sufficient to guide viewers' association of the meaning of the mysterious place.
The five Award of Merit winners are also worth introducing to audience. TSAI Yuan-Huan's "Waiting in the Distance" interprets "sincerity" through
radiant yet profound colors; CHEN Tai-Hua's "Fly! Another Jungle" presents the vision of a "free nation" woven by rich and colorful lines; HUNG
Chun-Ming's "Back Home Again" expresses the desperate emotions for environmental sustainability through grey and green colors and the image of a
flock of birds; CHUANG Da-Wei's "Green" philosophically contemplates on how "time" exists or roams among natural greenery; WU Chin-Ho's "Who
Do You Want to Be" uses the dream-like carousal as the metaphor to raise the question of "how do people find their own place in the glamorous external
world?"
Congratulations and blessings to the above prize winners. I hope they continue to fuse painting expressions with humanitarian reflections to freely
wander in the fun creative world.