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  • Bai Feng-zhong
    Bai Feng-zhong is a Taiwan postwar artist and belongs to the second generation of the modern ink painting movement. The themes of his painting can be linked to the countryside where he grew up and his love of flowers, plants and nature. His novel works of flowers in color and ink caused quite a stir as they appeared at a time when the art scene was dominated by abstract ink painting. Bai combines and fuses multiple views and close-ups of flowers in his paintings and uses bold, complementary colors, strong contrasts, and bright combination of colors never used in traditional painting. He skillfully adds ink lines to create a distinct and lively visual effect. Bai prefers to use color to determine spatial depth rather than the more rational single-point perspective that allocates an object's position according to size, and he playfully blends geometry and abstract images in his images. Instead of adhering to the traditional principles of ink painting, that is, to express distance, depth, and height or leaving the background blank, he “fully" animates the picture surface.

    Bai's ceramic paintings are similar to his modern ink paintings. He paints lively and thriving flowers on the ceramic surface in vivid color. Applied in blocks and defined sections, the bright colors and ink lines resonate with each other. The large area of flowers highlights visual tension to such extent that Bai's unrestrained enthusiasm feels almost palpable. He likes to explore subjects from life in his ceramics and will apply the glaze with Chinese ink painting techniques, such as thick and pale brush and dry and wet strokes, in an attempt to capture the eternal moment.