Artist portrait
CHANG Dai-chien (1899 – 1983)
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Chang Dai-Chien (Zhang Dàqian) (May 1899 – April 1983) is one of the most gifted and prestigious Chinese artist of the XX° century. First known as a traditional CBP, he has been recognised in the sixties as a modern impressionist and expressionist painter by the critics, often compared to Picasso who he met in France 1956.
Taipei Palace Museum offers an in-depth exhibition of his work with reproductions of early Chinese master such as Ni Zan (1301-1374) or Shitao, drawing books of extreme simplicity and refinment and his brazilian period around the garden of the eight Virtues which he built from his own hands.
After a few decades in Brazil, he returned to Taiwan in the sixties, a period called ‘republican’, where his technique evolve towards a free style of splash ink.
Panoramic view of Suao-Hualien road.
That road crosses Taiwan central mountains. One can see here the raid winding up through mountains, cliffs and mist while waves hit the bottom of the cliff.
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Splashed ink, Republican period.
To appreciate Chang Dai-chien personal technic of splashed ink, check the video on the link below :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKT4ua-d-wQ