梁震明水墨創作與材質研究

■Chong-ray Hsiao Liang Chen Ming, known for his meticulous landscape paintings, is one of the iconic artists in the post-war Taiwan who embrace the modern movement of ink paintings by incorporating the studies of materials and phenomenology into his works. Born in 1971, Liang Chen Ming had not jumped on the bandwagon of the Taiwanese trend of abstract ink paintings in the 1960s, or the Nativist Movement in the 1970s. At a slightly more mature age, he witnessed the rise of the Age of Museums, which occurred in Taiwan during the 1980s. Despite a boom in digital and mobile devices in the 1990s, he opted for the seemingly traditional calligraphic ink as his creative tool and media. We might infer that it has something to do with his identity as one of “the second generation of mainlanders” born and bred in Gangshan, Kaohsiung, a region famed for its abundance of “military dependents’ villages.” His father, who had raised three young children on his own, and served as a mainten...

Taiwan is a country with an island culture , which is always ready to accept new cultural values from dominant countries such as China, Japan and the United States. T he number of people with a good taste has been dwindling despite the fact that Taiwanese ink paintings began taking root in 1949. How do painting artists of the new generation deal with this plight? Undoubtedly, Chinese ink paintings would not have achieved its aforementioned success without promotion and advocacy from the elitist circles. How do Taiwanese artists find a way out in an era dict ated by secular culture, where few attention has been paid to the art of ink paintings, let alone the distinction between ink and black? 2013 is a year of c ontemporary Chinese ink paintings, when “experimental ink paintings,” “new literati paintings,” “ink painting installations,” “new meticulous paintings” and “new ink paintings” had flourished. Taiwanese ink paintings have also seemed to benefit from the economic g...