{"id":2861,"date":"2020-07-04T09:21:13","date_gmt":"2020-07-04T01:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goodideaart.com\/?page_id=2861"},"modified":"2022-06-14T10:03:05","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T02:03:05","slug":"%e7%b9%aa%e7%95%ab-%e6%b4%aa%e7%be%8e%e7%8e%b2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/goodideaart.com\/en\/%e7%b9%aa%e7%95%ab-%e6%b4%aa%e7%be%8e%e7%8e%b2\/","title":{"rendered":"PAINTING HONG MEI-LING"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text][\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_separator style=&#8221;shadow&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;3408&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text]<span style=\"font-size: 18pt; color: #800080;\">HONG MEI-LING\uff081940-\u3000\u3000\uff09<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #333333;\"> 1982 B.F.A. (Painting) San Franciso Art Institute U.S.A.<br \/>\n1984 M.F.A. (Painting) San Franciso Art Institute U.S.A. <\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #800080;\"> PUBLICATIONS <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #333333;\">Picture album: Looking for Tao, MEI-LING HONG, 1983-1987<br \/>\nPicture album: Looking for Tao, MEI-LING HONG, 1991-1996<br \/>\nPicture album: Looking for Tao, MEI-LING HONG, 1996-2006<br \/>\nPicture album: Looking for Tao, MEI-LING HONG Solo Exhibition, Taipei City Art Museum, 2013<br \/>\n<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #800080;\">COLLECTION<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #333333;\">Collection: Brobeck, Phleger &#038; Harrison, San Francisco, US<br \/>\nCollection: Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan &#038; Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_separator style=&#8221;shadow&#8221;][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;3\/4&#8243;][vc_column_text]<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #800080;\">BRIEF BIOGRAPHY<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #333333;\">Hong Mei-Ling is from Hualien, Taiwan, a graduate of Hualien Normal School in 1959. In 1977, after some years of teaching, she attended National Academy of Arts Western Painting program. After graduation, she became a student in San Francisco Art Institute(SFAI), and earned an MFA in 1984. As Hong\u2019s art combines gorgeous colors from Western painting and the abstract aura found in Chinese thinking, she has been well-recognized; her work was twice selected\/nominated by SFAI annual Spring Show, she also joined multiple local group exhibitions in San Francisco.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #333333;\">Although Hong resided in San Francisco for years\u2014she confessed\u2014despite the long paths she has walked, it was inconceivable to separate her deep Chinese cultural roots from her life engaged in Western painting; quite the contrary, her mother culture is found interwoven with her creative life in Western art. Unceasingly, her creations attempt to search for a religious, profound and pure state amidst the colorful complexities of daily life. She first painted under the theme Looking For Tao in 1983, ever since then each of her works have been titled Looking For Tao. The exploration of life paths is now her principle subject in painting .<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #333333;\">Mountain peaks, valleys, long paths, tunnels, and stairways are main motifs in Hong\u2019s paintings. There are layers of subtle hues under the seemingly simple, colorful shapes; in the calmly-composed layout, something about the paintings beckons one\u2019s sight back and forth. She said, \u201cI deem life a searching journey, chasing after one\u2019s ideal, hence every painting in this series is a small stop on my journey looking for Tao (the Way). Every one of them is like a movement of Life\u2019s Grand Symphony. I thus entitle them in a similar way to which movements are numbered.\u201d For many years, Hong has been like a hermit to the art world, devoted to her creative life. As in the journey searching for the Way, she shows no fear even when facing hardness in the same way as Don Quixote, who clung to his own romanticism even during impossible situations, and voluntarily followed his dreams all the rest of his life.<br \/>\n<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_separator style=&#8221;shadow&#8221;][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;3\/4&#8243;][vc_column_text]<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #800080;\">SOLO EXHIBITIONS<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<table style=\"height: 220px; width: 103.297%; border-collapse: collapse; border-style: none;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 28px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 9.05368%; height: 28px; border-style: none;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">1985<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 90.9463%; height: 28px; border-style: none;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #333333;\">The Lab Gallery, San Franciso, U.S.A.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 28px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 9.05368%; height: 28px; border-style: none;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">1985<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 90.9463%; height: 28px; border-style: none;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #333333;\">Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 28px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 9.05368%; height: 28px; border-style: none;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">1990<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 90.9463%; height: 28px; border-style: none;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #333333;\">Space II, Taipei, Taiwan.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 28px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 9.05368%; height: 28px; border-style: none;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">1990<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 90.9463%; height: 28px; border-style: none;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #333333;\">Dimensions Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 28px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 9.05368%; height: 28px; border-style: none;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">2001<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 90.9463%; height: 28px; border-style: none;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #333333;\"> Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 28px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 9.05368%; height: 28px; border-style: none;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">2003<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 90.9463%; height: 28px; border-style: none;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #333333;\">Ke-Yuan Gallery. Taichung, Taiwan.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 28px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 9.05368%; height: 28px; border-style: none;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">2013<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 90.9463%; height: 28px; border-style: none;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #333333;\">Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 9.05368%; height: 24px; border-style: none;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">2020<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 90.9463%; height: 24px; border-style: none;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #333333;\">YX Art Space: Looking For Tao 1985\u301c2019<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #800080;\">JOINT EXHIBITIONS<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<table style=\"height: 476px; width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; border-style: none;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 28px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 9.61538%; height: 28px; border-style: none;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">1983<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 90.3846%; height: 28px; border-style: none;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #333333;\">Walter&#038;Mcbectn Gallery S.F., U.S.A.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 28px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 9.61538%; height: 28px; border-style: none;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">1985<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 90.3846%; height: 28px; border-style: none;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #333333;\">Diego Rivera Gallery S.F., U.S.A.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 28px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 9.61538%; height: 28px; border-style: none;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">1987<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 90.3846%; height: 28px; border-style: none;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #333333;\">Walter&#038;Mcbean Gallery S.F., U.S.A.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 28px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 9.61538%; height: 28px; border-style: none;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">1989<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 90.3846%; height: 28px; border-style: none;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #333333;\">Space II, Taipei, Taiwan.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 28px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 9.61538%; height: 28px; border-style: none;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">1991<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 90.3846%; height: 28px; border-style: none;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #333333;\">Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 28px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 9.61538%; height: 28px; border-style: none;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">1991<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 90.3846%; height: 28px; border-style: none;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #333333;\">Dimensions Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 28px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 9.61538%; height: 28px; border-style: none;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">1991<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 90.3846%; height: 28px; border-style: none;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #333333;\">Chin Shih Gallery Taichung, Taiwan.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 28px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 9.61538%; height: 28px; border-style: none;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">1991<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 90.3846%; height: 28px; border-style: none;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #333333;\">New Trends Gallery Taichung, Taiwan.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 28px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 9.61538%; height: 28px; border-style: none;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">1993<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 90.3846%; height: 28px; border-style: none;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #333333;\">Duchamp Gallery, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 28px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 9.61538%; height: 28px; border-style: none;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">1994<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 90.3846%; height: 28px; border-style: none;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #333333;\">Top Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 28px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 9.61538%; height: 28px; border-style: none;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">1994<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 90.3846%; height: 28px; border-style: none;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #333333;\">Taipei Normal College Gallery, Taiwan.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 28px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 9.61538%; height: 28px; border-style: none;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">1996<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 90.3846%; height: 28px; border-style: none;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #333333;\">Masterpiece Art Center Taipei, Taiwan.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 28px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 9.61538%; height: 28px; border-style: none;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">1998<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 90.3846%; height: 28px; border-style: none;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #333333;\">Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 28px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 9.61538%; height: 28px; border-style: none;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a02002<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 90.3846%; height: 28px; border-style: none;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #333333;\">Ke-Yuan Gallery, Taichung, Taiwan.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 28px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 9.61538%; height: 28px; border-style: none;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a02004<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 90.3846%; height: 28px; border-style: none;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #333333;\">Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 28px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 9.61538%; height: 28px; border-style: none;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a02006<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 90.3846%; height: 28px; border-style: none;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #333333;\">CYCU Art Center Chung Yuan Christian University. Chung-Li, Taiwan.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 28px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 9.61538%; height: 28px; border-style: none;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a02008<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 90.3846%; height: 28px; border-style: none;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #333333;\">Tea Gallery Taipei, Taiwan<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_separator style=&#8221;shadow&#8221;][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_images_carousel images=&#8221;2886,2883,2879,2877,2873&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; autoplay=&#8221;yes&#8221; wrap=&#8221;yes&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text]<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #800080;\">Looking for Tao<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #333333;\"><br \/>\nUnder distant heavens,<br \/>\nAlong endless roads,<br \/>\nI\u00b4ve traveled alone,<br \/>\nFor a dream\u3001an ideal,<br \/>\nI\u00b4ve crossed ranges of mountains,<br \/>\nI\u00b4ve passed forests of thorns,<br \/>\nI\u00b4ve wandered winding mountain vales,<br \/>\nTo search for the utopia of my soul.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #333333;\">\u201cLooking for the Way\u201dis the\u00a0title of my paintings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #333333;\">I conceive of life as a quest in search of a dream.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #333333;\">Every one of my paintings represents a small stop on this journey in pursuit of this dream.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #333333;\">Since every piece is like a measure in \u201c The Symphone of Life\u201d,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #333333;\">I have employed numbers to name each of my canvases.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #333333;\">I will continue my journey in search of the Way till my life\u00b4s end. <\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_separator style=&#8221;shadow&#8221;][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/6&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #800080;\">Looking for Tao #5<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">1983 USA<br \/>\nOil on canvas<br \/>\n162\u00d7122cm<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;2872&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; onclick=&#8221;link_image&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1593827974177{margin-bottom: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;}&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;2873&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; onclick=&#8221;link_image&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1593828032783{margin-bottom: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;}&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/6&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #800080;\">Looking for Tao #10<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">1984 USA<br \/>\nOil on canvas<br \/>\n162.5\u00d7123.5cm<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_separator style=&#8221;shadow&#8221;][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;2875&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; onclick=&#8221;link_image&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1593828243251{margin-bottom: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #333333;\">1984 USA<br \/>\nOil on canvas\u00a0122\u00d785cm<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text]<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #800080;\">Looking for Tao #11<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #333333;\"> With a platform leading to the moon, the artist informs us that only with a nearly impossible jump and ascendance could we reach the moon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #333333;\">Perhaps this is an overtly blunt way of explaining this; however, a structure like this does help us gain a better grasp of the challenging journey and its far-reaching distance.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Capture: Looking For Tao-Hong Mei-Ling Solo Exhibition, P. 76, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, 2013 NOV<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_separator style=&#8221;shadow&#8221;][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #800080;\">Looking for Tao #23<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #333333;\"> To the left is a collapsed but temporarily stable cliff; in the middle is the previously wide but now collapsed path; and to the right is a road that is already fallen through. Interestingly, the cliff to the left is like an urban building or store with vivid neon lights, and the fallen pieces of rock are like an assortment of products on display. The entire image is quite commercial, and it also exudes a sense of bliss and sweetness; however, danger is unavoidable, with the pink path scattered with deep cracks and cervices, and the way to the place afar is blocked by those seemingly charming rocks.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Capture: Looking For Tao-Hong Mei-Ling Solo Exhibition, P. 76, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, 2013 NOV <\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;2877&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; onclick=&#8221;link_image&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1593828535603{margin-bottom: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">1986 USA<br \/>\nOil on canvas\u00a0162.5\u00d7122cm<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_separator style=&#8221;shadow&#8221;][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;2879&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; onclick=&#8221;link_image&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1593828715577{margin-bottom: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #333333;\">1992 TAIWAN<br \/>\nOil on canvas 162\u00d7122cm<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text]<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #800080;\">Looking for Tao #47<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_separator style=&#8221;shadow&#8221;][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #800080;\">Looking for Tao #82<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;2881&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; onclick=&#8221;link_image&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1593828815558{margin-bottom: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #333333;\">1998 TAIWAN<br \/>\nOil on canvas\u00a0122\u00d7162cm<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_separator style=&#8221;shadow&#8221;][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;2883&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; onclick=&#8221;link_image&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1593829046731{margin-bottom: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #333333;\">2000 TAIWAN<br \/>\nOil on canvas\u00a0162\u00d7122cm<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #800080;\">Looking for Tao #91<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #333333;\">Looking for Tao #91 is one of Hong Mei-Ling\u2019s current works from her planned series (#1\u2013#100) begun in 1983. At first glance it possesses a sci-fi flavor\u2014two tall, upward-expanded cliffs meet and are entwined with each other at their tops, and between them is a way, which seems to go through the canvas like a deep tunnel. Something in the smoothly-shaped, tilted clifftop, the unison in teal-green tone, the smooth surface texture and the abnormal lighting, evokes the thought: this is not our familiar physical world. The painting gives one the impression of being on a ride where one is about to dive into a tunnel on a jet plane, and enter some secret base hidden inside. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #333333;\">However, just as the image narrative sends forth a mysterious aura, behind the picture\u2019s layout an Other World is implied\u2014it is an echo of Shan Shui, which pays its tribute from afar to the spirits of the Song and Ming dynasties.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #333333;\">Reference <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #333333;\">Hong Mei-Ling. Looking for Tao, published in 2008. 1996-2006, A Magic-Realistic State, with the Red Pill Taken\u2014an Analyze of Hong Mei-Ling\u2019s Looking for Tao and Its Resemblance to Shan Shui, Chou Ling-Chih, p.82.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_separator style=&#8221;shadow&#8221;][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #800080;\">Looking for Tao #99<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;2885&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; onclick=&#8221;link_image&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1593831516072{margin-bottom: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">2002 TAIWAN<br \/>\nOil on canvas\u00a0122\u00d7162 cm<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_separator style=&#8221;shadow&#8221;][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;2886&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; onclick=&#8221;link_image&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1593831622441{margin-bottom: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">2003<br \/>\nOil on canvas 162 \u00d7 122 cm<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #800080;\">Looking for Tao #100<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #333333;\"> At the mid-waist of a solitary mountain are several paths, and although this setting is usually quite steep and dangerous, it, surprisingly, projects a bright and warm sense of blissfulness. It is like a bundle of feathers and a fluttering pair of wings. When it seems there is no passage ahead, one only has to gently separate the wings to find a way out. Even more magical is a pair of closed wings situated at the peak, and as it spreads open, the entire mountain is transformed into a bright and grand path that could soar up to the sky. Works like these have resulted from the artist\u2019s very unique and complex personal experiences.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #333333;\">Capture: Looking For Tao-Hong Mei-Ling Solo Exhibition, P. 78, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, 2013 NOV<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_separator style=&#8221;shadow&#8221;][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #800080;\">Looking for Tao #123<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #333333;\"> With Looking For Tao No. 123 (2009), Looking For Tao No. 125 (2010), and Looking For Tao No. 130 (2012),<br \/>\nexpressions that are different from before are observed. The previous portrayals of flowers by the path and human figures that are striving to climb up are now transformed into broken platforms and roads. With the completely shattered platform comes danger of falling off the cliff, and the path seems to divert into various directions; however, it does not lead to the place at the far distance. It is a sense of happiness for the moment, a transient and superficial sense of joy. The solemn dark colors seem to express the feeling of being stuck, with the final destination unreachable.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #333333;\">Capture: Looking For Tao-Hong Mei-Ling Solo Exhibition, P. 80, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, 2013 NOV <\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;2887&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; onclick=&#8221;link_image&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1593831745639{margin-bottom: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #333333;\">2009 TAIWAN<br \/>\nOil on canvas\u00a083.5\u00d7114cm<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_separator style=&#8221;shadow&#8221;][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;3\/4&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #800080;\">Art critic&#8217;s comment<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #333333;\">Huang Hai-Ming \/ Director, Taipei Fine Arts Museum<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #333333;\">The title of each piece by Hong Mei-Ling is named by a number symbolizing a measure in the artists symphony of life, with the journey documenting the artist\u2019s quest for her dreams. Surprising elements are discovered in her paintings, and so are tranquil solitude, loneliness and also a sense of ease with self-realization. Although not each painting is inspired by a story, they are the artist\u2019s life. Looking For Tao tells of Hong\u2019s extensive creative journey and reflects the faith and decisions she has made in life. 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