ILLUSTRATED:

Hwang Jyi, Galerie Elegance, Taipei, 1989, color illustrated, p. 24

Hwang Jyi 1996, Galerie Elegance, Taipei, 1996, color illustrated, no. 064, pp. 44-49 & p. 188

This painting is to be sold with a certificate of authenticity issued by Galerie Elegance, Taipei.

The whole picture of "Unicorn" is like a fossil, only the realistic woman at the lower right corner presents "now" and "reality". The back of the fossil is presented in an abstract way; it's a symbol of the stories from the "past". Hwang Jyi wanted to create a picture in which the reality and the illusion co-exists, the woman at the left is created with Hwang's later technique when handling characters, the seal signifies "youth", the bones of the dog next to the lower right woman signifies "the shadow of death". Huang used embossing technique, blending and abstract brush strokes to construct the whole picture. Unicorns are beautiful legendary creatures from the middle age, they have the shape of horses, and the only difference is the horn on its forehead. In the middle age, unicorns are symbols of purity, and their horns could purify or even bring dead back to life. The artist's life and economic condition is not well during that time, therefore he used his brush to paint his dreams and his feelings on the canvas, and further purify his soul.