ILLUSTRATED:
The Climax An Exclamation of 21st Century, Modern Art Gallery, Taichung, 2001, color illustrated, p. 56
The painting is to be sold with a certificate of authenticity issued by Modern Art Gallery, Taichung.
Chaos cristallin (Crystalline Chaos)
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1990 Oil on canvas 130 x 97 cm Signed lower right Chu Teh-chun in Chinese and |
Estimate
3,300,000 - 4,300,000 101,600 - 132,300
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Sold Price
6,930,000 216,326
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The painting is to be sold with a certificate of authenticity issued by Modern Art Gallery, Taichung.
Critics have coined the term aysagisme des songes to describe Chu Teh-chun's painting style. His paintings are poetic; he used colors firmly yet wildly at the same time, those lines jumping like grass on the wind blowing, his paintings is exquisite like eastern paintings, and colorful like western paintings, it also has the pleasure from Chinese landscape paintings and calligraphy. Especially in his recent works, the form and colors are wilder then ever, those calligraphy-ish lines can be seen all over the picture, strengths are between each brush strokes, it's imposing yet graceful and restrained. Like what French contemporary art critic Talbot commented: is paintings are natural, it's shivering and passionate, and it's a sentimental devotion, whispering the mysteries of life.
Chu Teh-chun used his favorite color, blue in haos cristallin through mysterious yet poetic colors and overlapping brush strokes he created a unique atmosphere. Look closely; there are mountains, white and yellow colors in the dark blue, just like the rhythm of the air and the light. The artist used colors to create a world of profundity, captured the moment when everything remains asleep, turned the moment before dawn to eternity.