![]() ![]() Between 19, he attended the National Taiwan College of Art, developing a sound foundation in oil painting under the tutelage of famous Taiwanese artists of the Japanese Colonial period, such as Liao Chi-chun, Li Mei-shu and Yang San-lang. He developed an interest in art in early childhood, and found inspirations to pursue an artist career after reading Lust for Life – The Life of Vincent van Gogh, translated by poet Yu Kuang-chung, in junior high school. Yang Chi-hung was born on 25 October 1947, in Chungli, Taiwan. Yang Chihung (Chinese: 楊識宏 pinyin: Yang Chihung born 1947) Taiwanese-American artist. Provenance:= From a Corporate Art Collection Sheet 38 x 50 inches, frame dimensions: 45 x 57 x 2 inches, wood frame with glazing Untitled (Black and Brown Composition) (1986) Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC, United States Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, MexicoĪmerican Express, Chicago, Illinois, United States Young Latin American Artists, Naul Ojeda, Letelier, Ghiglino, Washington DC –Īrthur Charles Gallery, Peter Max, Max Papart Washington, DCīaltimore Opera House, Baltimore, Maryland, United Statesīanco Popular de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Ricoīanco Santander de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Ricoįorbes Collection, New York, United States V Bienal Iberoamericana de Arte, México City Park Gallery (Domingo López/Luis Hernández Cruz/Julio Rosado del Valle)īotello Gallery, Rufino Tamayo, Antoni Tapies, Joan Miro, Angel Botello, José Luis Cuevas ![]() Virginia Miller Galleries, Coral Gables, Miami FL Luigi Marrozzini Gallery, (Pequeño Formato), San Juan PR Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña (Muestra de Arte Nacional), San Juan PR – Obra Galería Alegría (Sex Sells), San Juan PR Galerie Almine Rech, Art Basel, Miami Beach, FL Each one a masterfully composed snapshot into his imagination and daily life. The collages exhibit the greatest sense of freedom of imagery and brilliant color. The imagery draws on influences as far flung as African masks, sheet music, photographs and many varieties of flowers. Perhaps harkening back to his early training as a classical violinist, the collages have a diaristic feeling, as if reflective of a daily habit of practicing his craft of drawing and composing. Easily transported, he has created large numbers of works on paper while traveling and residing in Amsterdam and St. He first began producing collages and montages in 1973. Figueroa’s mixed media collages provide a more light-hearted counterpoint to his large-scale paintings. These are among Figueroa’s simplest and most commanding works. Like Color Field paintings on unprimed canvas, the medium allows the line to bleed into the paper, revealing the ghost of the forms, and emphasizing the element of time introduced by the process. “Vital Forces” includes a series of untitled drawings made with coffee and black ink on paper. ![]() Yet the thin layers of paint visible beneath the gestural line reveal that these paintings are not just about action, but also about deliberation. The grand scale and incorporation of drips allude to Abstract Expressionist masters such as Franz Kline and perhaps Philip Guston’s shapes. Incorporating Taoist or Zen Buddhist associations, as if they are visual koans. The incorporation of figurative imagery belies the truth that the primary subject is painting itself. His principle connection with Abstract Expressionists such as Twombly or Willem de Kooning’s late phase is in his freedom of execution and skillful use of color. It is the sensation of its own realization.” - applies to Figueroa’s work as well. Twombly’s commentary on his own work - “It does not illustrate. Often incorporating hand-written notes, they are Cy Twombly-esque in calligraphic line. ![]() The constant throughout is his pursuit of painting as a spiritual discipline, and celebration of the beauty that life has to offer. Each domicile has inspired a new series of paintings and collages. Figueroa has maintained a studio in Puerto Rico since the 1980s, though his itinerant lifestyle has given him opportunities to work for extended periods in the United States, Europe, particularly the Netherlands, and St. His work shows an idiom of forms that are related to the stylistic vocabulary of abstract expressionism and minimal art. His formal academic education was in music which combined with his career in the Visual Arts. Incorporating figuration and abstraction, the variety present in the artist's body of work reflects the many paths toward beauty and spiritual awareness. 1957) is best known for his Minimalist abstract paintings and works on paper that celebrate beauty and revel in the joy of life. Oil pastels, acrylic, wax pencil, graphite, watercolor and collage elements on paperįramed to 39.5 X 31.5. ![]()
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