Look Far into the Distance from Shue Shan

Oil on canvas

65 x 80 cm

Signed lower left S. Yang in English

Estimate
2,200,000 - 2,800,000
537,000 - 683,000
68,800 - 87,500
Sold Price
3,186,000
735,797
94,991

Ravenel Autumn Auction 2008 Taipei

245

YANG San-lang (Taiwanese, 1907 - 1995)

Look Far into the Distance from Shue Shan


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Yang San-lang is a true believer of impressionism; he paid a lot of attention to paint or sketch nature and always took notice on the sunlight as well as different shades in different times. He has high prestige among senior artists in Taiwan, makes every endeavor for art movements and established "Tai-yang Art Society. He received "National Culture Medal", it is the highest honor of art one could receive in the country, his ability capturing touching moments and vitality in nature, his utilizing the space through different layers, and his presenting his mind through art, is the best in all artists.

This piece "Look Far into the Distance from Shue Shan" has multiple layers of brush strokes to build up the muscles of the mountains, it also shows how magniicent these mountains are after Yang's touch. Brush after brush, color after color, he created a beautiful picture of nature. In order to capture the actual face of nature, he carried his tools step by step towards the holy mountain in his heart and painted it with his paintbrush. Mountains rise and fall, entwine, Yang's passion, praise, drawings and his love for mountains drive him to go from Yu-Shan, Huhuan Mountain, Dabajian Mountain, Ali Shan to the Himalayas, he has a heart caring for art, has no dread for traveling the world, challenges nature. Looking into this piece, we see the color olive brown changing with time, it shows thousands of looks of the mountain which is astonishing.


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