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Ink Wash Painting
墨彩類

LI Chen-Ming

With its rich cultural and historical fabrics, Taichung is now organizing the 29 th edition of the Da Dun Fine Arts Exhibition,
nurturing countless brilliant artists. After expanding to international call for entries and organizing the Taichung Da Dun Fine Arts
Exchange Exhibition, the festival has extended its influences beyond the Chinese-speaking circles to cultivate for Taiwan the soft
power of cultural diplomacy, while also broadening the vision from Taichung to the world. In this year’s entries of the Ink Wash
category, artists tried to diversely develop various possibilities of initiating contemporary dialogues through accumulation of
traditional ink techniques.
The Ink Wash category of this year’s Da Dun Fine Arts Exhibition received 178 entries, among which six were from abroad; those
were: two from Mainland China, three from Hong Kong, and one from India. The preliminary review selected 25 entries, among
which, 21 works were submitted to the final review. After several rounds of voting and scoring through the preliminary and final
reviews, the five jurors, HUANG Dong-Fu, HUANG Tsai-Sung, LEE Tsung-Jen, LIN Ching-Ching, and LI Chen-Ming, named 21 prize
winners, including winners of the top three prizes, four Award of Merit winners, and 14 Short Lists.
This year’s First Prize winner was “When the Moon Forgot” by WU Tsai-Ting. In the three-panel composition, the artist utilized
ink’s quality of being not fully controllable and adopted different rendering techniques, as well as diverse expressive methods of flat
coloring, spraying, and layering, to present alternative interpretations of the different references in the fairytale illustration, as the
tender moonlight seemingly calmed many people’s anxious mind and soul. The different figures in the asymmetric composition
enriched the calm and steady picture. Second Prize went to “Melodious” by CHANG Jhen-Yan. The artist made use of variations
of ink and water to preserve the exuberant and fluid visual effect of waterfall through the process of constant layering. Through
the visual effects of the interplay between the picture and place, the entire monochromatic image created an atmosphere where,
under the resonant rhythm of a symphony, an ethereal and aesthetically beautiful ambiance was unfolded. In the Third Place-
winning “Not the Way You Think,” artist HUANG Ching-Chun used radiant and brilliant dots to reflect hopes and desires in life.
The translucent quality of silk, through layers of application, revealed a resilient glow through the mist, which was anticipation in
tranquility, or perhaps reflection on real-life experience.
The four Award of Merit winners were also brilliant works that expressed different creative qualities. For “Black and White
Combo,” KUO Tien-Chung adopted an interesting expressive method of symmetry, dividing and juxtaposing the picture to create
his own brand of ink wash painting; For “Refreshing Banyan Tree,” artist KANG Xing-Long masterfully and sophisticatedly depicted
birds among interweaving aerial roots of banyan trees through his signature meticulous and fine techniques in recent years, leaving
a profound impression on viewers; CHEN Yu-Shou referenced Qing painter HUA Yan’s “Bee and Tiger” to create “Good Fortune
and Misfortune Depend on Each Other,” portraying a more complicated life realization of good and bad fortunes depending on
one another in interweaving triangular spaces; In “Building Block City,” HUANG Chun-Teng represented the historicity and locality
of Taiwan’s old houses in a space he created through means of deconstruction and reassembly, creating a humorous yet strange
situation through a mixture of misplacement and connection of building blocks.
The diverse directions in contemporary ink painting are commendable, and we look forward to continued emergence of
innovative new works.

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