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Lofty Mountain Embraced by Trees
Details
YU CHENGYAO (1898-1993)
Lofty Mountain Embraced by Trees
Hanging scroll
Ink on paper
68.5 x 69 cm. (26 7/8 x 27 1/8 in.)
Lofty Mountain Embraced by Trees
Hanging scroll
Ink on paper
68.5 x 69 cm. (26 7/8 x 27 1/8 in.)
Provenance
Lot 942, 24 October 2005, Fine Chinese Paintings, Sotheby's Hong Kong.
Literature
The Art of Yu Chengyao, Hanart Gallery, Hong Kong, 1987, pp. 28-29.
Exhibited
Hong Kong, City Hall, The Art of Yu Chengyao, 17-22 October, 1987.
Further details
YU CHENGYAO (1898-1993)
Selected exhibitions
2005 Jia Art Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan (solo)
1996 Centre Culturel de Taiwan a Paris, France (solo)
1995 Taipei Cultural Center, New York, USA (solo)
1988 National Museum of History, Taipei, Taiwan (solo)
Hanart Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan (solo)
1987 Hong Kong City Hall, Hong Kong (solo)
1986 Hsiung-shih Gallery, Taiwan (solo)
1977 Chinese Cultural Centre, New York, USA (solo)
Notable collection
National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts
Yu Chengyao was born in Fujian in 1898 and served in the military throughout his adulthood. He studied at the Waseda University in Japan in 1920 and taught at the Whampoa Military Academy from 1923. He moved to Taiwan in 1949 after his retirement from the army. Yu memorised the magnificent landscapes of China and Taiwan he became familiar with throughout his youth, only beginning to paint them upon his retirement. His paintings express his appreciation for the motherland, a longing to return, and the reminiscence of a life that passed. Although Yu did not receive formal education in painting, he saw nature as his teacher. He believed that an artist can only capture real proportions and distances through fully immersing oneself in nature. His seemingly chaotic brushworks may not conform to a painterly school, however they give life and energy to the landscapes he portrayed. Irrespective of his technique, Yu shows the true essence of the literati by manifesting the connection that the ancients and nature shared.
Selected exhibitions
2005 Jia Art Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan (solo)
1996 Centre Culturel de Taiwan a Paris, France (solo)
1995 Taipei Cultural Center, New York, USA (solo)
1988 National Museum of History, Taipei, Taiwan (solo)
Hanart Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan (solo)
1987 Hong Kong City Hall, Hong Kong (solo)
1986 Hsiung-shih Gallery, Taiwan (solo)
1977 Chinese Cultural Centre, New York, USA (solo)
Notable collection
National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts
Yu Chengyao was born in Fujian in 1898 and served in the military throughout his adulthood. He studied at the Waseda University in Japan in 1920 and taught at the Whampoa Military Academy from 1923. He moved to Taiwan in 1949 after his retirement from the army. Yu memorised the magnificent landscapes of China and Taiwan he became familiar with throughout his youth, only beginning to paint them upon his retirement. His paintings express his appreciation for the motherland, a longing to return, and the reminiscence of a life that passed. Although Yu did not receive formal education in painting, he saw nature as his teacher. He believed that an artist can only capture real proportions and distances through fully immersing oneself in nature. His seemingly chaotic brushworks may not conform to a painterly school, however they give life and energy to the landscapes he portrayed. Irrespective of his technique, Yu shows the true essence of the literati by manifesting the connection that the ancients and nature shared.
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