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Limited Edition Prints
All print price are unframed (UF) framing price change according the actual framing.
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▪ J.F. Millet: “The Gleaners”, 1857. Louvre, Paris ▪ Gauguin: “And the Gold of their Bodies”, 1901. Museum d’Orsay, ParisOne of the most urbane and well-informed artists of the nineteenth century Jean Francois Millet (1814-1875), did not immediately find public favor, especially with the French middle class, who viewed his canvases, which glorified the moral superiority of hard labor, as politically revolutionary. Chen sees a deep linkage between Liberty and religious experience, and he uses a number of Millet icons to show this. In “Praying in the New Land” he took two figures from Millet’s “Angelus”, which is named after the Latin prayer recited at the start of day, noon, and end of day, and placed them in the view of the Statue of Liberty. While not religious, “City Gleaners” is a devastating commentary. Chen freely uses three peasants from another Millet, the familiar “Gleaners (1857)”.Although the colors and tonal placements of the painting are lovely, these ladies have not chanted the Angelus, nor does their work seem ennobling. They are picking up the trash of a profligate society, scavenging cans from a dump. The figure on the right carries a totebag imprinted I LOVE NEW YORK. Do they scavenge the soft drink cans to clean up the mess of litterers, or are they gleaning to have something to sell? Take your choice. The image of Liberty standing on a Classic Coke can is delicious. It can never be said that Chen’s art is without humor and imagination! Limited edition print unframed Price: USD$3,000 |
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“After experiencing the jolt of the dramatic close-up vis-a-vis encounter solely with the head of the Statue, Chen’s careful exchanges become apparent: her crown, a ring of Eiffel Towers; her eyes and nose, a synthesis of both the aggressive eagle and the peaceful dove. He, in essence, completes 100 years later the message of the Statue. It now not only is the traditional image of friendship between one nation and another, but becomes in Chen’s hands a more universal concept through this new universal neo-iconographic image.”
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“France and the United States unite once more. Chagall’s Paris full of Eiffel Towers, lovers, and roses, creates a cultural crown for our Lady. She thinks of Paris, but sees New York, Gracefully, Chen’s majestic Magritte bird provides the soulful link between the two.” – P.B.-S. Limited Edition Print unframed Price: USD$2,000 |
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• Edward Hopper: “Early Sunday Morning,” 1930, Whitney Museum of American Art
In Chen’s book “The Spirit of Liberty,” he states: “The driving desire of all human beings to make choices cannot be taken away; nor can it be ceded successfully. The craving dwells innately within the heart and spirit of human beings. Whatever our circumstances, as long as we are rational, we are in Liberty’s power forever. “To celebrate the Statue of Liberty’s Centennial several years ago, Chen painted more than 100 iconographic tributes to her, “calling into service his extraordinary erudition, his effusive love for all of humankind’s varied expressions of culture over past millennia, and his passion for the eternal truth, of humankind’s universal freedom-seeking spirit.” “Sunday Morning, Liberty!” is a quintessential American piece, which takes a popular image from Edward Hopper (1882 – 1967), who frequently took his images from stark, seedy, urban America. Chen’s introduction of the Liberty icon in such a dramatic fashion drives home the point that even when no human beings are in view, the social context is a product of human decisions. – Lawrence Jeppson Limited Edition Print unframed Price: USD$2,000 |
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An excerpt from President Reagan’s eulogy at a memorial service for the seven Challenger astronauts at the Johnson Space Center in Houston on January 31, 1986: “The sacrifice of your loved ones has stirred the soul of our nation and, through the pain, our hearts have been opened to a profound truth: the future is not free, the story of all human progress is one of a struggle against all odds. We learn again that this America, which Abraham Lincoln called the last best hope of man on Earth, was built on heroism and noble sacrifice. It was built by men and women like our seven star voyagers, who answered a call beyond duty, who gave more than was expected or required, and who gave it with little thought to worldly reward. Today, the frontier is space and the boundaries of human knowledge. Sometimes, when we reach for the stars, we fall short. But we must pick ourselves up again and press on despite the pain. Our nation is indeed fortunate that we can still draw on our immense reservoirs of courage, character and fortitude – and that we are still blesses with heroes like those of the space shuttle Challenger.” Limited Edition Print unframed Price: USD$2,000 |
映照自由 1 Reflecting Liberty 1 (Blue)#85033 36 x 24″ 絹版Serigraph |
Reflecting Liberty
Serigraphy in four versions: blue, yellow, pink and white. ”Elegantly placed on Mondrian’s code of colors, – P.B.-S Limited Edition Print unframed Price: USD$2,000 |
映照自由 2 Reflecting Liberty 2 (Yellow)#85033 36 x 24″ 絹版Serigraph |
Reflecting Liberty
Serigraphy in four versions: blue, yellow, pink and white. ”Elegantly placed on Mondrian’s code of colors, – P.B.-S Limited Edition Print unframed Price: USD$2,000 |
禁止吸烟及變奏 No Smoking#90050 40″ X 30″ Serigraph 1990 |
T. F. Chen was commissioned in the early 90’s to create an artwork raising awareness of cancer prevention. One of the designs that Chen came up with is this “No Smoking” silkscreen in Vincent van Gogh’s trademark. Chen newly interpreted the image to fit the screenprinting process and made some modifications to communicate his message.The originality and charm of this advertisement arises in the usage of a pictorial “icon” familiar to society. Van Gogh’s “Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear and Pipe” has been etched into the public consciousness. In combining the well-known image with the positive message of “No Smoking,” the painting wittily and effectively catches the spectator’s eye. It is always a delight to perceive a message conveyed through art.
The first number of this “No Smoking” serigraph edition was welcomed by the White House during President Ronald Reagan’s administration. The lower painting is a 8-“No Smoking”-variations-in-one on canvas with repeition to enforce the effect. Limited Edition Print unframed Price: USD$2,500 |
梵谷歸來 Van Gogh Coming Home
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The sublime interior of Matisse’s “Dessert, Harmony in Red” has become Van Gogh’s home, and a pattern of Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” adorns the wallpaper and tablecloth. Van Gogh’s wife, a graceful Arlesian woman, prepares dessert for the happy artist, returning home from a long day of painting under the sun.
Thus, in Chen’s adaptation, Vincent van Gogh has finally attained the family intimacy and artistic recognition which he so earnestly craved throughout his lonely life. Limited Edition Print unframed Price: USD$2,000 |
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天下一家 World Family in Peace#89053 24 X 34″ Print 1989 |
Chen has been inspired several times to use Matisse’s La Danse in paintings and prints, beginning with Five Races in Harmony.Having only a black and white illustration of The Dance, Chen was free to make an extraordinary dramatic interpretation that would simultaneously express his admiration for Matisse and demonstrate his own overpowering faith in the coming together of men in a united human family. His five differently colored dancers symbolize the five races.The Red Buddha sits on a multicolored circular pedestal which plays harmonic melody with the circle of dancers and the circle of fire and light behind the Buddha’s head.
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畫鳶尾花 Painting Irises30″ X 40″ Screen Print 1993 |
In the late 1980s, the van Gogh painting “Irises” was purchased at auction for the astronomical, record-breaking sum of $80 million. This was a historical event in the art market. Yet how could this come to pass?
As Dr. Chen’s image reveals, the painting is unfinished! Van Gogh, dressed as an artist from Holland, is seated in a sunny Arles garden, still adding dazzling, pure strokes of color to the canvas. We do not see his face, hinting perhaps that the nature of the artist is less significant than the nature of the art. Indeed, the greatest artist of all is obscured from human vision, but with a divine hand, continues to add strokes of color to the canvas known as Earth. Limited Edition Print unframed Price: USD$10,000 |
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舉婚於村莊之上 Wedding Above the Village77 X 101 cm Print 1991 |
The juxtaposition of complementary colors “the Chagall sky with the van Gogh landscape” excites the eye. When van Gogh painted Starry Night, he was lonely and unhappy, a victim of unrequited love who, more than anything,wished for a wife and family.
Chagall’s exuberant Song of Songs images present a wish fulfillment: love, mutual bless, and evelasting joy. Although it was impossible on the physical plane to grant van Gogh a portion of happiness, through the merging of his work wih the transcendent sweetness of Chagall’s, Chen bestows a subconscious blessing. In a time out of time, and a place out of place, van Gogh can enjoy love and peace. Limited Edition Print unframed Price: USD$10,000 |
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愛超越對立 Love Above Confrontation30″ X 40″ Screen Print 1993 |
A span of four centuries of changing values in artistic tradition electrifies the air between Titian’s “Venus with a Mirror” and Picasso’s “Seated Woman.” The contemporary viewer can see the beauty in both icons, but within their worlds, each woman argues for the authenticity of the stylistic expression of her image. Locked in a moment of confrontation, the two do not comprehend that another world exists that values and cherishes both for their differences, not in spite of them. Through an open window, Chagall’s folkloric pair of lovers float high above the fray. They seem to advocate “love above confrontation,” and are enjoying the freedom that only love can offer.
Limited Edition Print unframed Price: USD$10,000 |
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Happy Mme. Moitessier30″ X 40″ Screen Print 1993 |
Between Cezanne’s still life and Gauguin’s Tahitian painting, Ingres’ “Mme. Moitessier” stands confident and serene. Her source of happiness is twofold: her portrait hangs in a museum, enchanting thousands; and she owns, within this frame of reference, two postimpressionist masterpieces. In linear time, this would be impossible, since both works were produced almost half a century after her death.
But the imagination does not recognize the boundaries of time and space. This intriguing arrangement playfully revises history and demonstrates the depth of possibility in the postmodernist art world. Limited Edition Print unframed Price: USD$10,000 |
Breeze Stroller (Red&Brown)
Limited Edition Print unframed Price: USD$1,500
Age of Diplomacy (Brown&Red)
Limited Edition Print unframed Price: USD$1,500
Don Quexote Series (Click on the image for more details.)
26″ X 20″ Limited Edition Print unframed Price: USD$1,000
20″ X 26″ Limited Edition Print unframed Price: USD$1,000
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