The “CHU THE-CHUN, RETROSPECTIVE” will be held from 4:00 p.m. on March 4th, 2010 to March 30th, 2010 in the National Art Museum of China (NAMOC), a Chinese artist now residing abroad in France, will take this chance to exhibit the artistic achievements of all his life to the audiences in his native land. Grown in the 20th century when grand social and cultural changes have taken place in China, CHU THE-CHUN have devoted himself in seeking for balances between traditional spirits of arts and the modern appeals; and taken the accumulations of different cultures of human beings, from the lofty implications of Western Arts to the graces and poetries of Eastern Arts, as spiritual sources into the vitality of his artistic creations. From his artistic works, the audiences can experience and comprehend the new deductions of oriental arts in global visual fields.
CHU THE-CHUN was born in 1920 in Baitu Town, Xiaoxian, Jiangsu Province. His grandfather and father, followed the family tradition to be doctors, were fond of paintings and calligraphies. As a child, CHU THE-CHUN had become imitating the collections of the family. In 1935, he entered Hangzhou National Art College and learnt arts from some famous tutors such as Wu Dayu, Fang Ganmin, Cai Weilian, Pan Tianshou, etc. In May 1955, CHU THE-CHUN left Taiwan for Paris to seek for free expressions of paintings as inspired from the works of Stahl. Moreover, Rembrandt’s arts in the 17th century endowed new emotions, depressions and mysteries into his artistic spirits and artistic connotations. Among the artistic works of one oil painting and ten ink painting denoted by Mr. CHU THE-CHUN to the National Art Museum of China, the trilogy oil painting of Green Vigor (195×390cm) is the representative works of the artist. In December 1997, CHU THE-CHUN was awarded the title of Academician by the Institut de France. The preside of the ceremony praised his arts “full of the connotations of European cultures”. CHU THE-CHUN is the first Chinese academician and oriental artist in the history of over two century of the Institut de France.
On the “CHU THE-CHUN, RETROSPECTIVE”, 113 pieces of works will be exhibited. More than oil paintings, ink paintings and calligraphies, the exhibition will also offer earthenware, sketches and related data of CHU THE-CHUN s artistic life, etc. The exhibition involves five parts:
1. Artist and Artistic Works 2. Idealized Abstraction 3. Dazzling Changing 4. Studio in Paris of the Artist 5. Echoes of Chinese Culture
At 9:30 a.m. on the morning of March 6th, we’ll invite Mr. Dai Haoshi, the initiator of the exhibition, to offer a lecture with the topic of “CHU THE-CHUN and Nonobjectivism”. During the exhibition, we’ll also arrange related education activities. Please visit our website of the National Art Museum of China for details.
