Born in Shanghai in 1935, Fu-sheng KU is the only son of General KU Chu-tung and he moved to Taiwan with his family and the Nationalist Army in 1948. He took to drawing at a young age and studied at the Fine Arts Department at Taiwan Normal University. There, he joined the Fifth Moon Group that included LIU Guo-Song, CHUANG Che and HAN Hsiang-Ning, and became instrumental in promoting Taiwan’s modern art movement. Exploring the meaning of life and existentialism is central to his life-long pursuit of art. Kenneth Hsien-yung PAI, renowned writer and a close friend of KU, describes art as a passionate and persistent pursuit for the artist. “If everyone must choose a way of life, painting is my whole life - my thoughts are in my work, and so are my feelings and every detail of my life.” KU faces his art with utmost honesty and has never jumped on the popular bandwagon. His fantasy and dreams ride free between a subconscious world of reality and fiction. Naturally inspired by anything or any situation, his creations spring from his inner sense, and time, place, material, color, and lines can all be used as vehicles for expression. KU readily twists his media in rich and diverse ways, giving his works sporadic fun and beauty.