WANG Shiu-kung

Taiwanese　1930

Born in Gansu, China. Wang got professionally trained in Hangzhong National College of Art. He estranged himself from art when being young and never drawn a picture. Because Mainland China changed the situation in 1949, Wang exiled to Taiwan in a panic and known Shao Bai Li coincidentally. By Li's guidance of ceramic skill, Wang forge the indissoluble bound with the pottery. Li ShaoBai served as former directors of Peitou ceramics factory in Taiwan Industrial and Mining Company at that time. At that time, Taiwan pottery was still developed the era of opening up, considered as the items in everyday use and handicraft, is far from being artistic value. He started creating art in ceramics. Perhaps the material is different, but artistic idea and the pursuit to the aesthetic theory are the same. Wang advocate the idea of "Ceramic Art is the art in ceramic", to further explain, "The Modern Ceramics" is the new living beings under the modern artistic idea, which combined with ceramic science and technology.