The recent passing of Peng Ming-min (彭明敏) marks the end of an era, the era of three Taiwanese colonial greats, namely Su Beng (史明), Lee Teng-hui (李登輝) and Peng.
These greats did not grow up in a vacuum and so it is ironically appropriate that the special exhibit, “Lumiere, the Enlightenment and Self-Awakening of Taiwanese Culture,” is currently touring Taiwan.
The exhibit presents the purpose, goals and works of the Taiwan Cultural Association, founded on Oct. 17, 1921, and shows the strong developing homegrown Taiwanese identity and desire for democracy (then representation in the Japanese Diet) that Su (Nov.
A long-lost nude sculpture by late Taiwanese sculptor Huang Tu-shui (黃土水) is to be the central exhibit at a show at the Museum of National Taipei University of Education from today through April.
The exhibition, titled “Lumiere: The Enlightenment and Self-Awakening of Taiwanese Culture,” is to feature the newly rediscovered sculpture Water of Immortality (甘露水), which was formerly known as Sweet Dew along with paintings and writing by more than 20 Taiwanese artists and literary figures of the Japanese colonial period.
Curator Lin Mun-lee (林曼麗), who discovered the sculpture early this year, on Thursday expressed her happiness and excitement about
Taipei, Dec. 16 (CNA) A long-lost nude sculpture by late Taiwanese sculptor Huang Tu-shui (黃土水) will be the central exhibit at an art exhibition to be held at the Museum of National Taipei University of Education (MoNTUE) from Saturday through April 2022.
The streams of shoppers, merchandise and signboards on the streets of Dadaocheng (大稻埕), one of the first international commercial districts in Taipei, easily elicit the hustle and bustle of what the area must have been like in the early 20th century.
Kuo Hsueh-hu (郭雪湖) captures such a scene in his 1930 work titled Festival on South Street (南街殷賑), which is one of the most celebrated pieces from Taiwan and the piece de resistance of the ongoing exhibition “Worldward: The Transformative Force of Arts in Taiwan’s New Cultural Movement” at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum (TFAM).
“Kuo vividly reproduced Dadaocheng’s prosperity and diversity,”
Walking down the streets of Dadaocheng (大稻埕), one of the first international commercial districts in Taipei, one sees streams of joyous shoppers, vibrant merchandise and colorful signboards and can easily imagine the hustle and bustle of the area in the early 20th century.