Name Chung-Chuan Cheng | ||
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Chung-Chuan CHENG (Chinese: 鄭瓊娟, 1931-), a female Taiwanese painter, was born in Hsinchu City. Most of her sisters engage in the medical field because her father was a well-known medical doctor in the 1930s in Taiwan. Her mother, a house wife, is the offspring of a noted philanthropist, Lee His-Cin. While majoring in Fine Arts at National Taiwan Normal University, Chung-Chuan Cheng joined the Fifth Moon Art Group encouraged to set up by a painting professor Ji-Chun Liao in 1957. By the end of the same year, she gave up the teaching and decided to reside in Japan with her husband. The artist had stopped working any paintings for more than 30 years until she was nearly 60. She not only started to hold solo exhibitions in Japan but also returned to Taiwan for joining annual exhibitions of the Fifth Moon Art Group. Just before her eightieth, Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hall staged her art retrospective exhibition in 2011. Besides, a private charity organization also took place a bazaar of her works for the benefit of the mental and physical disabled residents in Hsin-Chu.。In 2013, Taipei Fine Arts Museum invited Chung-Chuan Cheng to join the group exhibition “Women Adventurers: Five Eras of Taiwanese Art, 1930-1983”. At present, the artist enjoys leading a tranquil life and contentedly creating works.
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Painting Works
Art Characteristics
Chung-Chuan Cheng learned sketch or painting from several expert professors at National Normal Taiwan University, such as Ji-Chun Liao, Shih-Chiao Li, Teh-Chun Chu and Dou-Ci Sun. The artist used to represent portraits or still lifes, and her art style tended to be realistic. After marrying a dentist, she had devoted her attention to the family for several decades. She enjoyed reading medical, psychological, or philosophic books as her only hobby in the housewife life. By the end of 1980s, she began to paint again in her sixtieth. Obviously, her art style turns to be much more abstract, and most of her subjects are imaginative landscapes. Chung-Chuan Cheng in Japan can hardly have chances to go travelling, so those mountains or rivers of her works are not the real scenery. Moreover, some of her compositions look like veins or nerves proves that medical books exert a strong influence on her. Regarding colors, the artist appreciates noble golden, mysterious black, passionate red. Her works conveys elegance, warmth, and vigor. Being a kind and simple artist, Chung-Chuan Cheng considers that she is a fortunate person and aims to express love and positive ideas to everyone through her sincere creations.