ILLUSTRATED:
Michell Hwang-Faces of the Modern City, Galerie Pierre, Taichung, 1994,color illustrated

Michell Hwang, first-generation splendid modern artist after WWII, is wellknown in the Chinese artistic circle because of unique artistic terms, glossaries and paintings with dense color of the oriental demeanor and mystery. The art of Michell Hwang has experienced the countryside realist painting in 1970s, the humanistic leniency in 1980s, and the semi-abstractive, colorful metropolitan lifestyle in 1990s. Michell Hwang grew up in Yilan, Taiwan, well-known for the education on rigorous Confucian ethical code. This way, his works always deliver a kind of religious experience. the connotation of symbolism and expressionism. From his irst art show in 1985, Hwang’s paintings have focused on the theme of man and woman – all the men take the form of sad king, oriented towards expressionism; the women have grown from young ladies in the early stage to a figure like the Virgin Mary, with the atmosphere from shy to loyal. Michell Hwang addresses parallel layout of high tone colors in his paintings and builds texture and layers by interweaving and overlapping descriptive strips. “Line” is from time to time the most highlighted, emphasized property in the art of Hwang for no matter plane or solid. These flying, dynamic, and yet vital lines constitute a unique flavor amidst ration and sensibility. The changes cultivated by splendid colors, quick or slow lines, thickness and thinness, turning, and other sharp contrasts compose an ever-changing, mysterious world.