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Lot Essay
In the early 1950s, Chu The-Chun took up a teaching position at the National Taiwan Normal University. During this period, he also held several successful solo exhibitions in Taiwan. Painted in 1955, Seascapes (Lot 3305) is a rare example of the artist's works from the period prior to his departure to Paris. The painting shows signs of the artist's gradual move away from figurative representation. Here, the artist attempts to give expression to his inner emotions as well as the elegance and quiet of nature.
It seems that Chu Teh-Chun started his construction of "poetic natural spaces" around this time. In the painting, the manner by which the sea has been rendered seems almost abstracted. The artist uses sweeping brushstrokes to show the gradated shades of the blue sea and speckled foam of the waves. The forms of distant sails echo the figures and small boats in the foreground, exemplifying Chu's strict demands on composition.
The writer and historian Luo Jialun stated that,
"One of Chu Teh-Chun's strengths lies in his talent in choosing a scene, which is not an easy thing to doK you need to know how to frame a scene and register the fleeting changing states of different moments in time." In Seascape, Chu captures a specific scene and a fleeting moment, almost in a cinematic approach, where different people are strolling on the beach, standing and sitting.
It seems that Chu Teh-Chun started his construction of "poetic natural spaces" around this time. In the painting, the manner by which the sea has been rendered seems almost abstracted. The artist uses sweeping brushstrokes to show the gradated shades of the blue sea and speckled foam of the waves. The forms of distant sails echo the figures and small boats in the foreground, exemplifying Chu's strict demands on composition.
The writer and historian Luo Jialun stated that,
"One of Chu Teh-Chun's strengths lies in his talent in choosing a scene, which is not an easy thing to doK you need to know how to frame a scene and register the fleeting changing states of different moments in time." In Seascape, Chu captures a specific scene and a fleeting moment, almost in a cinematic approach, where different people are strolling on the beach, standing and sitting.