Che Chuang Oil and Collage Painting on Canvas "Rising Mist"

Item Details

An oil and collage painting on canvas titled Rising Mist by listed Chinese contemporary artist Che Chuang (New York; b. 1934), created in 1969. This piece depicts a smoky composition with hues of black, light pink, and gold. The piece is rendered atop a painted off-white background. This piece is signed and dated to the lower left corner. To the verso is an informative label from Forsyth Gallery Inc. providing the artist name, title, and medium of the piece. Presented without glass in a silver painted wooden frame.

Che Chuang was born in Beijing, China during 1934 and received his formal education from the National Taiwan Normal University. Chuang’s work primarily focuses on abstract landscapes that rendered the external appearance of nature while expressing their form and spirit. He also uses calligraphy as a mode to introduce lines, shapes, and structures. Chuang learned calligraphy from his father, Chuang Shang-Yen, who was a scholar and calligrapher. During the 1960s, an artistic group called the Fifth Moon Group was established and Chuang became one of its members. The group was influenced by American Abstract Expressionism and Western Existentialism. Chuang and the other members combined Chinese and Western culture, using ‘spirit of the East as their backbone, while using Western materials, and advocating experimental blending of Eastern and Western techniques’. Chuang’s artwork is housed in private and public collections throughout the world including the National Museum of History, Taipei, Taiwan, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, and the Hong Kong Art Museum, Hong Kong, China to name a few.

Condition

- minor wear to the edges of the frame.

Dimensions

- measures in frame; canvas size: 23.50" W x 35" H.

Item #

17DET010-333