{"id":5575,"date":"2021-09-13T15:09:45","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T07:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goodideaart.com\/?page_id=5575"},"modified":"2021-10-04T14:01:08","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T06:01:08","slug":"%e5%8f%b0%e6%98%9f%e5%b1%95-%e5%8f%b0%e7%81%a3-%e6%b4%aa%e7%be%8e%e7%8e%b2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/goodideaart.com\/en\/%e5%8f%b0%e6%98%9f%e5%b1%95-%e5%8f%b0%e7%81%a3-%e6%b4%aa%e7%be%8e%e7%8e%b2\/","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan HONG MEI-LING"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”64px”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”6125″ img_size=”large”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]HONG MEI-LING\uff081940-)<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
1982<\/span><\/td>\nB.F.A. (Painting) San Franciso Art Institute U.S.A.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1984<\/span><\/td>\nM.F.A. (Painting) San Franciso Art Institute U.S.A.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]PUBLICATIONS<\/span><\/p>\n

Picture album: Looking for Tao, MEI-LING HONG, 1983-1987<\/span>
\nPicture album: Looking for Tao, MEI-LING HONG, 1991-1996<\/span>
\nPicture album: Looking for Tao, MEI-LING HONG, 1996-2006<\/span>
\nPicture album: Looking for Tao, MEI-LING HONG Solo Exhibition, Taipei City Art Museum, 2013<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]COLLECTION<\/span><\/p>\n

Collection: Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, San Francisco, US<\/span>
\nCollection: Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan & Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_separator][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]BRIEF BIOGRAPHY<\/span><\/p>\n

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

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

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.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_separator][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]SOLO EXHIBITIONS<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
1985<\/span><\/td>\nThe Lab Gallery, San Franciso, U.S.A.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1985<\/span><\/td>\nTaipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1990<\/span><\/td>\nSpace II, Taipei, Taiwan.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1990<\/span><\/td>\nDimensions Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2001<\/span><\/td>\nTaipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2003<\/span><\/td>\nKe-Yuan Gallery. Taichung, Taiwan.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2013<\/span><\/td>\nTaipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2020<\/span><\/td>\nYX Art Space: Looking For Tao 1985\u301c2019<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]JOINT EXHIBITIONS<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
1983<\/span><\/td>\nWalter&Mcbectn Gallery S.F., U.S.A.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1985<\/span><\/td>\nDiego Rivera Gallery S.F., U.S.A.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1987<\/span><\/td>\nWalter&Mcbean Gallery S.F., U.S.A.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1989<\/span><\/td>\nSpace II, Taipei, Taiwan.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1991<\/span><\/td>\nTaipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1991<\/span><\/td>\nDimensions Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1991<\/span><\/td>\nChin Shih Gallery Taichung, Taiwan.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1991<\/span><\/td>\nNew Trends Gallery Taichung, Taiwan.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1993<\/span><\/td>\nDuchamp Gallery, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1994<\/span><\/td>\nTop Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1994<\/span><\/td>\nTaipei Normal College Gallery, Taiwan.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1996<\/span><\/td>\nMasterpiece Art Center Taipei, Taiwan<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1998<\/span><\/td>\naipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2002<\/span><\/td>\nKe-Yuan Gallery, Taichung, Taiwan.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2004<\/span><\/td>\nTaipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2006<\/span><\/td>\nCYCU Art Center Chung Yuan Christian University. Chung-Li, Taiwan.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2008<\/span><\/td>\nTea Gallery Taipei, Taiwan<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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1992 <\/span><\/p>\n

Oil on canvas<\/p>\n

162\u00d7122cm<\/span><\/p>\n

[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text]Looking for Tao #47<\/span><\/p>\n

Under distant heavens,<\/span>
\nAlong endless roads,<\/span>
\nI\u00b4ve traveled alone,<\/span>
\nFor a dream\u3001an ideal,<\/span>
\nI\u00b4ve crossed ranges of mountains,<\/span>
\nI\u00b4ve passed forests of thorns,<\/span>
\nI\u00b4ve wandered winding mountain vales,<\/span>
\nTo search for the utopia of my soul.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u201cLooking for the Way\u201dis the\u00a0title of my paintings.<\/span><\/p>\n

I conceive of life as a quest in search of a dream.<\/span>
\nEvery one of my paintings represents a small stop on this journey in pursuit of this dream.<\/span>
\nSince every piece is like a measure in \u201c The Symphone of Life\u201d,<\/span>
\nI have employed numbers to name each of my canvases.<\/span>
\nI will continue my journey in search of the Way till my life\u00b4s end.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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