{"id":2823,"date":"2020-07-03T16:26:58","date_gmt":"2020-07-03T08:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goodideaart.com\/en\/?page_id=2823"},"modified":"2022-06-07T16:51:10","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T08:51:10","slug":"%e7%b9%aa%e7%95%ab-%e5%8a%89%e8%80%95%e8%b0%b7","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/goodideaart.com\/en\/%e7%b9%aa%e7%95%ab-%e5%8a%89%e8%80%95%e8%b0%b7\/","title":{"rendered":"PAINTING LIU GENG-GU"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text][\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_separator style=”shadow”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”2837″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]LIU GENG-GU\uff081940-2006\uff09<\/span><\/p>\n

Ta-Tung Elementary School, Chiayi Country
\nDongshi Junior High School, Chiayi Country
\nDongshi High School, Chiayi Country
\nXiamen University Fine Art Department. <\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]COLLECTION
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1988<\/span><\/td>\nArt work, Song of My Land, was collected by National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1992<\/span><\/td>\nArt work, Rare View of the Gorge, was collected by National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1995<\/span><\/td>\nArt work, Blossom, was collected by Taipei Fine Arts Museum.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1998<\/span><\/td>\nArt work, White Mt. Jade, was collected by Chiayi Municipal Cultural Center.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2003<\/span><\/td>\nArt work, Resonance, was collected by Fine Arts Center of Tamkang<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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1986<\/span><\/td>\nReceives the gold medal for the mural contest of National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (Song of My Land) 1260x820cm.<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1990<\/span><\/td>\nAppointed as judge of 45th Taiwan Provincial Fine Arts Exhibition.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1993<\/span><\/td>\nAppointed as judge of National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1993<\/span><\/td>\nAppointed as judge of 48th Taiwan Provincial Fine Arts Exhibition Association.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1994<\/span><\/td>\nAppointed as judge of 49th Taiwan Provincial Fine Arts Exhibition Association.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1995<\/span><\/td>\nAppointed as judge of Taipei Fine Arts Museum.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1996<\/span><\/td>\n Appointed as judge of Taichung Da Dun Fine Art Exhibition.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1996<\/span><\/td>\nAppointed as judge of Nan Ying Award for Tainan City Government.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1996<\/span><\/td>\nAppointed as judge of Taiwan Provincial Fine Arts Exhibition Association.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1998<\/span><\/td>\nAppointed as judge of National Taiwan Arts Education Center from Taiwan Ministry of Education.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1998<\/span><\/td>\nAppointed as judge of Nan Ying Award for Tainan City Government.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1998<\/span><\/td>\nAppointed as judge of Huangxi Exhibition of Changhua County.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1999<\/span><\/td>\nAppointed as judge of Nan Ying Award for Tainan City Government.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2000<\/span><\/td>\nAppointed as judge of 14th Nan Ying Award for Tainan City Government.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2000<\/span><\/td>\nAppointed as judge of Taichung Da Dun Fine Art Exhibition.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2002<\/span><\/td>\nAppointed as judge of Kaohsiung Fine Arts Museum.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2002<\/span><\/td>\nAppointed as judge of Greenwater Society.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2003<\/span><\/td>\nAppointed as judge of Kaohsiung Fine Arts Museum.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2004<\/span><\/td>\nAppointed as member of preparatory committee of National Taiwan<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2004<\/span><\/td>\nAppointed as consultant of Taiwan Provincial Fine Arts Exhibition.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2005<\/span><\/td>\nAppointed as judge of DEPO Education Foundation Exhibition.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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1990<\/span><\/td>\nSolo Exhibition, invited by the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1990<\/span><\/td>\nSolo Exhibition, invited by the Taichung Modern Gallery.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1991<\/span><\/td>\nSolo Exhibition Invited from Gingwa Art Center in Taipei Airport.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1992<\/span><\/td>\nSolo Exhibition, invited by Taipei Mitsukoshi collaborated with Gingwa Art Center in Taipei Mitsukoshi Cultural and Educational Foundation.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1993<\/span><\/td>\nSolo Exhibition invited by Taiwan Master Artist Status Society.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2012<\/span><\/td>\nSolo Itinerant Exhibition around Taiwan, invited by the Soka Gakkai International Taiwan. Breakthroughs and Transformations\u2014The Art of Eastern Gouache Painting by Liu Geng-Gu.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2016<\/span><\/td>\nSolo Exhibition, invited by the National Dr. Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall\u2014Land, Humanity, and Nature\u2019s Majesty.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2017<\/span><\/td>\nSole Exhibition, invited by Sincere Art Gallery\u2013An Artist\u2019s Spirit is Immortalised Through His Works.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2019<\/span><\/td>\nSolo Exhibition, invited by the Taichung City Government Cultural Affairs Bureau, Taichung City Seaport Art Center-Unveiling the Culmination of My Conviction\u2014Liu Geng-gu\u2019s Gouache Retrospective Exhibition.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2020<\/span><\/td>\nSolo Exhibition, invited by Chan Liu Art Museum- Integration of Ancient and Modern-The 80th Birthday Anniversary Retrospective Exhibition of Gouache Master Liu Geng-gu’s Art.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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\u00a0<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]JOINT EXHIBITIONS
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1985<\/span><\/td>\nGroup Exhibition, participated in the Asia Art Exhibition in Tokyo ( Ingeniousness )<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1985<\/span><\/td>\nGroup Exhibition, participated in the Celebrity of Taiwan Exhibition ( Fragrance )<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1992<\/span><\/td>\nGroup Exhibition Invited by the Taiwan Tai-Yang Art Society at Taipei International Convention Center.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1992<\/span><\/td>\nGroup Exhibition, invited by the Taiwan Gallery Expo at Taipei World Trade Center.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1993<\/span><\/td>\nGroup exhibition invited by the Greenwater Society in Goethe Art Center.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2000<\/span><\/td>\nGroup exhibition, Master of gouache painting exhibition 2000 , invited by the Taichung City Government.<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2004<\/span><\/td>\nGroup exhibition in Feng Chia University.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2006<\/span><\/td>\nGroup exhibition in Chin Shi Fine Arts Center.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2015<\/span><\/td>\nGroup exhibition in Taipei 101.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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1957<\/span><\/td>\nReceives the Gold Medal of Fine Arts from Chiayi county.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1958<\/span><\/td>\nReceives the Gold Medal of Chinese Painting from Taiwan.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1959<\/span><\/td>\nReceives the Judges\u2019 List Award of Chinese Painting from 13th Taiwan Provincial Fine Arts Exhibition. (Botanical Garden in Summer)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1961<\/span><\/td>\nReceives the Judges\u2019 List Award of Chinese Painting from 15th Taiwan Provincial FineArts Exhibition. (Blossoms)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1961<\/span><\/td>\nReceives the Judges\u2019 List Award of Chinese Painting from 15th Taiwan Provincial FineArts Exhibition. (Blossoms)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1981<\/span><\/td>\nReceives the bronze medal for Gouache Painting from 44th Taiwan<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1981<\/span><\/td>\nReceives the Quality Award of Gouache Painting from 36th Taiwan<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1982<\/span><\/td>\nReceives the silver medal for Gouache Painting from 45th Taiwan<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1982<\/span><\/td>\nReceives the gold medal for Gouache Painting from 37th Taiwan<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1983<\/span><\/td>\nReceives the gold medal for Gouache Painting from 46th Taiwan<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1983<\/span><\/td>\nReceives the bronze medal for Gouache Painting from 38th Taiwan<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1984<\/span><\/td>\nReceives the bronze medal for Gouache Painting from 47th Taiwan Tai-Yang Art Society Exhibition. (The Flower God of June)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1984<\/span><\/td>\nReceives the silver medal for Gouache Painting from 39th Taiwan<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1985<\/span><\/td>\nReceives the Honor of Master Artist Status from Taiwan<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1986<\/span><\/td>\nReceives the gold medal for the mural contest of National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (Revelation)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1986<\/span><\/td>\nReceives the gold medal for the mural contest of National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (Song of My Land) 1260x820cm.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1991<\/span><\/td>\nReceives the Commemorative Medal from Chinese Writers\u2019 and<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2005<\/span><\/td>\nReceives the Honor Certificate from National Taiwan Arts Education Center.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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1981
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[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]Night Waves on the Cape<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Taiwan\u2019s northern coast was one of the scenic spots that Liu in his early years had often visited with his friend, the painter L\u00fc Chi-cheng, and he showed a unique grasp of this beautiful area. In this painting, Liu arranged the composition with large crossing diagonals. His depiction of the waves crashing against the rocky shore is firm and natural in its grasp of the forms, and it convincingly conveys the water\u2019s movement. The palette is gentle and varying, and there is the suggestion of adventure in capturing the interplay between the rocks and waves. In the midst of it all, two seagulls are seen looking for food, and the way they fly together imbues the painting with unlimited room for the imagination.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_separator style=”shadow”][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

Revelation<\/span><\/p>\n

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This painting combines semi-abstract forms, \u201cV\u201d shapes, overlapping triangles, and complexly woven vertical and horizontal images, a warm, elegant palette, and fantastically dynamic clouds to provide the viewer with a multiply changeable visual space. Negative and positive blocks of color are used, plus lines that subtly echo one another. The artist cleverly combines the images of oxen and of farmers pleased with the harvest. Whether plowing, sowing, threshing, raising animals, or gathering the harvest, their forms dance and are at one with nature. The painting is a tribute to humanity. This painting won First Prize in the first mural competition organized by the Taiwan Museum of Art (now named National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts).
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1986
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1989
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[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text]Migrating Together for a Thousand Miles<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Through the use of overlapping areas and positive-negative contrasts, the artist reveals the beauty of geese migrating over long distances. There is a glimmer of light in the darkest reaches of the sky, and in the brighter areas it seems as if one is suspended high in the sky. It embodies the Zen \u201cmethod of no-method.\u201d This work shows in full the artist\u2019s capability in bringing together strength and beauty in a large work. The artist often compared himself with an isolated goose that flies a thousand miles in a day. This painting also shows the artist\u2019s skill with expressing vibrant, imagined realms in large paintings. Thus, as one examines the painting in greater detail, one increasingly discovers how the artist\u2019s distinctive brush-ideas conceal the beauty of the blending between Western art, with its emphasis on color blocks, and Chinese art, with its emphasis on line.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_separator style=”shadow”][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

Adversity Makes a Man Wise
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This painting records the artist\u2019s emotional state after he won First Prize in the mural competition held by the Taiwan Museum of Art in 1988. The honor carried a cash award of NT$2 million. Afterward, he came under all kinds of social pressure and suspicion from people who wondered how he could complete an Eastern gouache painting more than 12 meters long on his own, without a team of assistants. This gave him the motivation to complete an even larger work, Hymn of My Land, within three years, as well as a number of other Eastern gouache paintings measuring close to 10 meters at the same time. Examples include In Praise of China\u2019s Caves (1990), In Praise of the Great Toontree That Endures 8,000 Autumns (1991), and The Farmhouse (1992).<\/span><\/p>\n

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1992
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1993
\n97\u00d7130cm <\/span><\/p>\n

[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]Enduring Firm Through a Thousand Autumns<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Liu Geng-Gu began his white tree series of paintings in March 1990, after he had visited Mt. Huang and saw the ancient trees growing there. He executed several dozen paintings in various sizes of Mt. Huang, and at the heart of each is a respect for nature. Although the trees are strangely bent, gnarled, and ravaged with age, they have assumed their true forms; they follow the cycle of the seasons and are in spiritual accord with heaven and earth. They are the best illustrations of the Zhuangzi-inspired notions of being \u201calone in spiritual communion with heaven and earth\u201d as well as \u201cthe use of uselessness.\u201d The large tree in this painting occupies four-fifths of the composition. It towers close by, thereby freeing up the perspective, and the white of the tree extends into the white of the drifting clouds. The colors are pure and minimal but skillfully bring out the extreme age of the tree and its smaller companion. Highly sensitive line drawing outlines the tree’s shape throughout. The mineral pigments are thickly applied, forming a distinctive texture.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_separator style=”shadow”][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

Peonies<\/span><\/p>\n

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The twelve peony blossoms in this painting include unopened buds and fully open, beautiful blooms. Each is full of grace and radiating purity, and each is special in its own way. There is consistency in the handling of light-dark contrast, and strength is moderated with gentleness. This is a unique aspect of the artist\u2019s peony series. The wash in the background is an example of Liu Geng-Gu’s skillful method whereby he applies gradients of color in grey. Some of the stems and leaves are rendered with the \u201cboneless method\u201d of Chinese art. In every detail, one can see the artist\u2019s confident technique. The contrast between the fully open flowers and the darkness of the night adds depth to this conceptual realm and brings out the sense of hidden beauty.<\/span><\/p>\n

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1994
\n97\u00d7130cm <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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1996
\n206\u00d7720cm <\/span><\/p>\n

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In Praise of the Great Toon-tree That Endures 8,000 Autumns<\/span><\/p>\n

[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]This painting continues the exaltation of the natural realm found in the white tree series. It still focuses on a tree set in the near distance, and the artist seeks to unlock the laws of nature. Perceiving the \u201ctruth\u201d or \u201cperfection\u201d of things depends on developing a high level of refinement\u2014as Jing Hao (c. 850-c. 920) once said, in his Notes on Brush Methods (Bifa ji), \u201cMeasure the images of things and capture their truth \u2026 In the \u2018true,\u2019 both the qi and the substance flourish.\u201d Liu Geng-Gu\u2019s works are accurate in their depiction of form and have a palpable spirituality. Filling most of the space in this painting, without a doubt, is turbulently flowing qi (sometimes translated as \u201cpneuma\u201d). This qi is not the \u2018ether\u2019 of traditional Western thought but the life-endowing qi of the East.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_separator style=”shadow”][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

The Hidden Realm May Be Found<\/span><\/p>\n

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Most of Liu Geng-Gu’s self-portraits show him as an elderly man, one who has undergone the tests of time and is calmly contemplating his inner world. In his later period he began to use a great deal of imagistic, suggestive vocabulary to express being in spiritual communion with things. Whether the image is one of bamboo, an ox, or a faint glimmer of light, one can sense the lyricism (expressing feelings with objects) in his mind. Most of these works feature strong diagonals, and they often transform the color of things. Straight, broad brushstrokes and lines crossing plane areas are used to convey the connection between inner and outer worlds\u2014as well as the beautiful concept from the thinking of Laozi and Zhuangzi that the self is not distinct from objects, and the world is one organic whole. Liu also clearly felt a sense of responsibility for upholding his heritage. For example, he was especially fond of bamboo, and he emulated artists such as Wen Tong (1018-1079) and Zhao Mengfu (1254-1322) who sought to make nature their teacher. Thus in paintings like Viewing a River (2002), The Hidden Realm May Be Found (2002), Adversity Makes a Man Wise\uff1cSelf-portrait\uff1e(1992), and There Is \u2026? (1992), there is always a clump of bamboo, and an expression that reveals the artist\u2019s loneliness and sense of time passing.
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2002
\n80\u00d7100cm <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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2002
\n100\u00d780cm <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Light<\/span><\/p>\n

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During and after the late 1990s, Liu Geng-Gu started a series of paintings in which he sought to express his inner soul. These are freer in terms of their handling of light and conceptualized subject-matter. He had been suffering for many years with cardiovascular disease, but at the same time he always considered himself an inheritor of historical tradition and felt a sense of mission, so he pioneered a technique that combined Chinese and Western approaches to line and color. The dark-light contrasts in these large paintings became sharper and more powerful, and his handling of line reached new heights. The colors are saturated yet elegant, and the images magically vivid. These intoxicating paintings definitely depict the lonely spirit of one who goes his own way.<\/span><\/p>\n

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A Beauty<\/span><\/p>\n

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This painting is based on a photograph that the artist had taken in 1963 of his girlfriend, who eventually became his wife, LiuHuang Mei-hui. This painting is also one of a series of portraits in which the artist drew from his memories, seeking to capture his wife\u2019s beauty from before the time they were married. He thoroughly captures the image and spirit of the subject as she goes out for an autumn stroll\u2014her youthful figure, easy grace, and happiness as she self-confidently walks in the dim light. The darkness of the background serves to highlight her, and the autumnal idea is further conveyed through the blossoming silver grass.<\/span><\/p>\n

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