Art For Humanity/ United Nations

2015 年 9 月 28 日

Arts For Humanity Invitation

“Arts For Humanity” A World Tour 2005 – 2010

Embracing Cultural Harmony We invite your participation & support. The Arts For Humanity World Tour will organize and provide powerful exhibits, cultural events, and educational programs; focusing on issues of peace, tolerance, and cultural diversity. Museums, galleries, universities, and organizations who are interested in advancing the importance of Art Education and positive values of Art as a vehicle for global peace expression, or who would like to enhance their existing programs are welcome to participate. We invite you to become a member, arrange or sponsor an exhibition/event in your area, or intern/work with us professionally. Please watch for our upcoming Commercial to be aired this year. The initiator of this project, Dr. T.F. Chen, is a master artist, painter, art historian, writer, philosopher, visionary, and founder of his own Cultural Center and Foundation in SoHo, NYC. In 2001, Dr. Chen was honored with the Global Tolerance Award from the Friends of the United Nations and designated a Cultural Ambassador for Tolerance and Peace, for his lifetime of work dedicated to peace and for his art of multiculturalism—a body of work that inspires worldwide cultural harmony and progress. Dr. Chen’s artistic life spans more than half a century. A Taiwanese-American, Dr. Chen was the first Asian to earn a Ph. D in art history from Univ. of Paris (La Sorbonne) while simultaneously studying at the Nat’l Superior School of Fine Arts, where he established "Fifth-Dimensional World Culture" in theory (1969) and initiated "Neo-Iconography" (Neo-I) in painting. Renowned for his artistic style, philosophical vision, and honorable character, Dr. T. F. Chen is a true Renaissance Man who embodies the merging of Western and Eastern Cultures. Neo-Iconography is a daring new form of communication. It unites East and West, past and present, by organizing and combining familiar "icons" in unfamiliar ways. Like a passionate art collector, Dr. Chen assembles images he treasures and places them together in contexts that defy time, space, and cultural barriers; to create a new painting with a new meaning. Dr. T.F. Chen has produced more than 1,000 paintings in his signature Neo-I style and has published over 20 books in English, Chinese and French concerning his art and his theories of an upcoming Global New Renaissance. Recognized as "one of the twenty most influential artists in the world today” (Dr. Thomas McEvilley, art critic), Chen has conducted more than 100 one-man exhibitions worldwide. Chen's works are featured in over 150 books, (including the art history textbook, Art and Ideas), countless articles, newspapers, etc.; and are collected widely. His series include "The Spirit of Liberty," "Humanity," "Post - Van Gogh," "East - West," "Space Age," “War and Peace,” "Princess Diana," "9/11," etc. There are many ways to get involved and make a cultural contribution. Please visit our site at www.artsforhumanitytour.org. Thank you.

2015 年 9 月 28 日

2006-2010 The Art For Humanity Exhibition

T.F. Chen Cultural Center, SoHo NYC: This bold, powerful exhibit showcases 30 original paintings by Dr. Chen as well as dozens of available prints. Many of these major works have been shown at the United Nations, the State of the World Forum, the God & World Peace Conference, etc. All sales of Museum Store gift items, art books and prints go towards raising funds for the “Art For Humanity World Tour.” Group tours available.

2015 年 9 月 29 日

Since 1970, Dr. T. F. Chen has held more than 200 one-man shows in Asia, Europe, and the Americas. Dr. Chen’s recent and current exhibitions include:

	Dr. T. F. Chen shows permanently in his Museum Building at 250 Lafayette Street in SoHo, NYC.
	On April 20th, 2002, Dr. Chen opened his exhibit at the Jacob Gelt Dekker Institute for Advanced Cultural Studies on the occasion of the Grand Opening of Kura Hulanda, one of the newest and most dynamic World-Class Cultural Centers, located on a Dutch-Colonial UNESCO World Heritage site in Willemstad, Curacao.
	Dr. Chen exhibited and lectured at the Taiwan Center in San Diego, CA; Houston, TX and in Los Angeles, CA (May 11 - July 30th 2002; January 2003).
	Dr. Chen's "Jade Mountain: Love and Peace Series" is currently traveling on a three-year touring exhibition in Taiwan (July 20th, 2000 - October 20th, 2002).
	On December 11th, 2001, Dr. T. F. Chen was the first artist-painter to receive a "Global Tolerance Award" from the United Nations. Dr. Chen was honored for his lifetime of work dedicated to peace, tolerance and love; and for his art of multiculturalism; a body of work expressing a shared vision of humanity. As a desig-nated "Cultural Ambassador for Tolerance and Peace" with the Friends of the United Nations, Dr. Chen is working in partnership with the FUN for a World Art Campaign called: "Building A Culture of Tolerance and Peace through the Arts."
	In 1998 and 2000, Dr. T. F. Chen was invited to exhibit his masterpieces at the State of the World Forum. The State of the World Forum 2000 brought together over 1,000 key leaders from around the world in the fields of business, politics, science, technology, education, and the humanities in a combination of lectures, roundtable discussions, and social events focused on issues affecting us all. For more information on the State of the World Forum, please visit http://www.worldforum.org/.