By Rachel Lin and Kayleigh Madjar / Staff reporter, with staff writerThe Research Center for Conservation of Cultural Relics at National Taiwan Normal University yesterday for the first time revealed its techniques that have revived countless artworks and priceless artifacts.
Taipei, Nov. 2 (CNA) Google Taiwan on Wednesday displayed a Google Doodle on its Taiwan portal to mark the 115th birthday of Chen Chin (陳進 1907-1998), widely recognized as Taiwan's first female commercial painter.
Taiwan in Time: Yearning for home
A 2018 biography of Kuo Hsueh-hu written by his son sheds light on the iconic painter’s itinerant life
By Han Cheung / Staff reporter
April 5 to April 11
During the final months of his life, Kuo Hsueh-hu (郭雪湖) repeatedly asked his children to bring him down the mountain back to Fanzaigou (蕃仔溝), where he was born on April 10, 1908.
The centenarian had been living near San Francisco for decades, but as his condition worsened he began to think that he was on Guanyinshan (觀音山), which overlooks his childhood stomping grounds along the Tamsui river.
Kuo Hsueh-hu at the age of 28.