Série de Fleurs II

Chu Teh-Chun, belonging to the second generation of Chinese artists who studied in France, was the first Chinese member elected to the Académie des Beaux-Arts. Due to his training in France, he was also known in Chinese art history as one of the “Three Musketeers” of modern Chinese art. He arrived in Paris at the beginning of 1956 and was influenced by Tachisme, or French lyrical abstractionism, and resolutely discarded classical, realistic styles. He fused Western painting methods with the essence of traditional Chinese art and created his unique style of free and lyrical abstract paintings. Série de Fleurs II is an important, representative work of Chu Teh-Chun’s abstract art exploration during this period, in which wild, freehand brushwork and vacillating colors transform the vibrant vitality of flowers into abstract tension.