Série de Fleurs ll
Chu Teh-Chun
1957
- YEAR:1957
- MEDIUM:Oil on canvas
- DIMENSIONS:65 x 62 cm
Introduction
Chu Teh-Chun, a second generation of Chinese artist to study in France, was the first Chinese member elected to the Académie des Beaux-Arts. He was also known as one of the “Three Musketeers” of Chinese artists in France. He arrived in Paris in1955 and was influenced by Tachisme, or French lyrical abstractionism, and resolutely discarded classical, realist styles to explore abstract art. He fused Western painting methods with the essence of traditional Chinese art, creating his unique style of free and lyrical abstract paintings. Série de Fleurs ll is a critical, representative work of Chu’s abstract art exploration during this period, in which wild, freehand brushwork and vacillating colours transform the vibrant vitality of flowers into abstract tension, with the figurative image dissolving into the dynamic interplay of light and colour, presenting a sense of rhythmic movement akin to music.
