Post Van Gogh Series
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When Dr. T.F. Chen was 14 years old, he was so touched by Vincent van Gogh that he decided to go to Paris and become an artist in the future. In 1963, he got a scholarship from the French Government to study in Paris. He stayed in Paris for 12 years, earned Ph.D. in modern art history form the Sorbonne while studying at the School of Fine-arts in Paris for seven years. Nevertheless Van Gogh is his everlasting tutor and source of inspiration. So in 1990 on the occasion of Centennial Commemoration of the death of Van Gogh, Dr. Chen decided to attribute 100 paintings related to and inspired by Vincent van Gogh as “Post-van Gogh series” to commemorate him. The first of the series is “Vincent Coming Home” which is so loved that it appeared in the “Mythology of Vincent van Gogh” with opened double page. But the most significant part is “Visiting van Gogh” in sequence. When Van Gogh was in Arles, he dreamt to have a kind of artist club “l’Atelier du Midi”, yet due to his poverty, only Gauguin came. Dr. Chen regards the dream meaningful and practicable, so he invited, through his assumptive scenarios of Neo-Iconography, more than one dozen of masters to join the club, including Picasso, Matisse, Braque, Cezanne, Miro, Bonnard, Modigliani, Chagall, and Andy Warhol etc. Such paintings represent the impact of Van Gogh in the art history.
Dr. Chen’s “Post-van Gogh series” is shown in New York City, Amsterdam and in Taiwan for an art tour to 18 cultural centers and Taipei Fine Arts Museum which is visited by the President Lee of the nation. This series is well-narrated by Professor Thomas McEvilley and Dr. Jan Hulsker who regarded Dr. Chen as “Reborn Van Gogh”.
- Vincent is Coming Home #93038 66 X 44” ac 1990 Matisse: “Dessert, Harmony in Red” (1908 – 09) Vang Gogh: “Sunflowers” (1888) […]
- Working Hard Van Gogh: “The Siesta” (1890) T. F. Millet: “The Gleaners” (1857) Copying after the works of masters is considered an effective way to learn […]
- Phone Call on Vincent Van Gogh: “Portrait of Dr. Gachet,” 1890. The Louvre, Paris. “L’Arlesienne, Mme. Ginoux with Books,” 1888. Metropolitan Museum of Art. “Vincent’s Chair […]
- Golden Triangle of Post-Impressionism Cezanne: “Young Mon with Red Jacket” (1890 – 95) Van Gogh: “Dr. Paul Gachet” (1890) Gauguin: “O. Taiti (Nevermore)” (1897) Paul Cezanne, […]
- Wedding Above the Village #09014 77 X 101 cm ac 1991 The juxtaposition of complementary colors “the Chagall sky with the van Gogh […]
- Singing above St. Remy Van Gogh: “Wheat Field and Cypress,” 1889. National Gallery, London. Chagall: “The Sources of Music,” 1967. Drawings for the paintings at the […]
- Tulip Field at La Crau Van Gogh: “La Plaine de la Crau,” (1888) “The Painter on the Road to Tarascon,” (1888) Flowerbeds in Holland,” (1883) In […]
- Painting Irises oc 1992 In the late 1980s, the van Gogh painting “Irises” was purchased at auction for the astronomical, record-breaking sum of $80 million. […]
- Merry Christmas, Van Gogh The art of Dr. T.F. Chen involves an imaginative creating out of art history with a witty and often humorous presentation, as […]
- No Smoking #90050 40 X 50″ 1990 MMP T. F. Chen was commissioned in the early 90’s to create an artwork raising awareness of […]
- No Smoking 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 […]
- Homage to Sunflower 1 At the age of fourteen, while growing up in rural Taiwan, Chen came across a small library of about 50 books on western […]
- Homage to Sunflower 2 At the age of fourteen, while growing up in rural Taiwan, Chen came across a small library of about 50 books on western […]
- Homage to Sunflower 3 At the age of fourteen, while growing up in rural Taiwan, Chen came across a small library of about 50 books on […]
- Van Gogh as the Statue of Liberty In this artwork, Van Gogh IS the Statue of Liberty! In his left hand, the artist holds his palette. […]
- 梵高揮別艾菲爾鐵塔 《意象來源》 梵谷：『鳥鴉滿天飛的麥田（1890） 『奧斐的教堂』（1890） 除了艾菲爾鐵塔外，梵谷的形像構成了這幅動人心魄的作品，是陳錦芳紀念鐵塔百年的系列中一幅具份量的力作。 這幅畫組合了三個意象：歐斐的教堂，烏鴉飛滿天的麥田，以及艾菲爾鐵塔。 梵 谷的原作裡麥田佔了三分之二的畫面，而烏鴉滿天飛。深藍的天空零亂可怕，不管麥田上閃耀著陽光。陳錦芳作品上的麥田佔不到一半的畫面，天空視野擴大。他的 天空也有旋轉的雲，看來像是收割後大風中的麥草綑。那廣闊的天空戲劇性地襯托出那兩個法國的象徵形像：右邊是鄉下的教堂，左邊是現代土木工程的奇葩。 這兩個象徵形像符合陳錦芳的哲學意涵。教堂所代表的跟他早期作品中的佛像，月中詩人，以及其他東方形像所代表的合拍：即人的精神及（東方）直覺的象徵，而相反地鐵塔代表了科學的、實利的、物質的層面：西方文化的縮影。在這裡是東西方的整合。
