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Yuan Chin-Taa (袁金塔) is a contemporary artist, specializes in sculpture, traditional and modern Chinese water ink, and other mediums.

Background
Yuan Chin-Taa, born in Yuan-lin, Chang-hwa (Zhang-hua), Taiwan in 1949, graduated with excellent performance (Winner of 1st place in all the 3 categories: Chinese painting, watercolors, and oil painting; and 2nd place for calligraphy) from the Department of Fine Arts of National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU), in 1975; later he earned his Master of Fine Arts from the City College of the City University of New York. Professor Yuan formerly served as Chairman of the Department of Fine Arts and Director for the Graduate Institute of Fine Arts of NTNU, where he is still teaching part-time. Professor Yuan also once chaired the Department of Fine Arts of National Taiwan University of Arts. Currently, he is Director of the Creative Arts Center of Vanung University, Taoyuan, a member of the Committee of Public Arts of Taipei City Government, and Managing Director of the Association of University Art Centers of the Republic of China on Taiwan. He has been playing an important role in the promotion and organization of local arts exhibition and art education.

Exhibitions and Honors
Since 1975, Professor Yuan has been the recipient of many awards in numerous shows, including 40 plus solo exhibitions in Taiwan and more than 10 held overseas. He acted as a reviewer for National Arts Exhibition, Taiwan Province Arts Show, and regular exhibitions in Taipei and Kaohsiung, and the Television & Broadcasting Golden Bell Awards sponsored by the Executive Yuan’s Government Information Office. Also, he served as Member of the Permanent Art Collections Reviewing Committees of the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Kaohsiung Fine Arts Museum, the Bureau of Cultural Affairs of I-lan County and the Yingge Ceramics Museum. His works have been selected to be exhibited throughout Taiwan; many of them have been exhibited in mainland China, Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, Malaysia, the U.S., Canada, France, Macedonia, Czech Republic, Hungry, Belgium, Germany, Republic of South Africa and Dominican Republic. Some items were featured and sold off at such key paintings auctions as sponsored by the Sotheby’s and Christie’s Swire. Professor Yuan’s works are widely treasured and collected by private patrons or businesses as well as held in permanent collection by various galleries, museums, non-profit foundations and public institutions throughout Taiwan and abroad. He is the author of numerous articles and 16 books and albums, including: A Comparative Study on Painting Composition: Chinese Paintings versus Western Paintings, An Experimental Exploration of the New Direction for Modern Chinese Paintings, and A Study of Integrating Creative thinking into the Painting Process.

Creative Style
Professor Yuan’s works display characteristics of both Chinese and western culture and art in terms of painting concept, theory, and technique of expression. His creative substance and content is not only unique in featuring the natural and geographical environment in Taiwan, but also full of human concerns for, and, local thoughts and social changes of the island. He is true and loyal to his feelings while creating so that his works can constantly and clearly show what he sees, realizes, hears and thinks. In his works, he succeeds in combining traditional emotions, social realities, and personal rich experience gained through the vicissitudes of life, thus is able to create a special style of his own. His style is strong and amazing, yet, easy, solid and sincere, thus pioneering a new path for modern ink painting.

Recent Works
Yuan's recent works, The Books Series, content a new interpretation of ancient Chinese books. With the semiotics application, Yuan has reinterpreted text messages from the ancient Chinese Tao characters, Shang and Zhou bronze inscriptions, the Qin and Han bamboo Jane, Seal, and Li words to render contents of the books series such as the Book of Songs, the Book of Mountains and Seas, and the Book of Tea. Inspired from the comprehension reading of Chinese ancient poems “FISH”, the Book of Song is as a carrier, showing the symbol images and new interpretation text links on, to explore the erotic world of human nature. Corresponding the ancient text of the Book of Mountains and Seas, Yuan has created the ultra-modern magical animals to visualize the fantastical world of ancient China. He also focuses on ecological concerns and the cultivation of life aesthetic in the Book of Tea. To have more complex structures of casted paper art, he worked with local handmade paper mill to discover new materials and fibers of the island plants. The partition layouts of the exhibition include handsheets, casted paper, stainless steel plates, ceramic series and Chinese paintings albums. Three-dimensional paper arts, technically finishing with incense burning hollow calligraphy, transform the shape of space images by light and shadows of text transmittance with the pages open.



Works Held in Permanent Collection in
▓ National Museum of History

▓ Taipei Fine Arts Museum

▓ Kaohsiung Fine Arts Museum

▓ Taiwan Arts Museum

▓ Dr. Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall

▓ National Taiwan Arts Education Center

▓ Taiwan Arts Education Center

▓ Taipei County Cultural Center

▓ Hua-lien County Cultural Center

▓ Tainan County Cultural Center

▓ University of Illinois Museum, Urbana Champaign, USA

▓ Fukuko Gallery, Japan

▓ IBM Taiwan Co. Ltd., Mercury's Department Store, Crown Art Center and private patrons

▓ Stitching Veranneman Foundation, Belgium

▓ China Art Museum, Beijing, China

▓ Jiang-su Province Art Museum, China

▓ Skopia city Museum of Fine Arts, Macedonia

▓ Guang-zhou Art Museum, Guang-dong, China

▓ Shanghai Art Museum, China

▓ Olympic Fine Arts 2008, Beijing Olympics

▓ The Museum of Kyoto, Japan

Auction Record
1992.04.30	Fine Modern and Contemporary Chinese Paintings and Works of Art at Sotheby's, Hong Kong

1992.10.29	Fine Modern and Contemporary Chinese Paintings (Sotheby's, Taipei)

1992.10.18	Fine Modern Chinese Oil Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculptures (Sotheby's, Taipei)

1993.04.29	Fine Modern and Contemporary Chinese Paintings (Sotheby's, Hong Kong)

1993.5.16	       Fine Modern Chinese Oil Paintings, Drawings and Watercolors (Sotheby's Taipei)

1993.5.16	       Modern and  Contemporary Chinese Paintings (Heritage Chuan-jia Arts)

1993.10.17	Fine Modern Chinese Oil Paintings, Drawings and Watercolors (Sotheby's Taipei)

1993.10.28	Fine Modern and Contemporary Chinese Paintings (Sotheby's, Hong Kong)

1994.5.28	       Guidepost Art Beauty Oil Paintings, Ink Paintings and Ancient Arts

1994.10.01	Fine Modern Chinese Oil, Ink & Watercolor Paintings (Christie's Swire, Taipei)

1994.10.30	Fine 19th and 20th Century Chinese Paintings (Christie's Swire, Hong Kong)

1994.11.05	Heritage (Chuan-jia) Chinese Fine Arts, Taipei

1995.04.16	Fine Modern Chinese Oil Paintings, Drawings, and Watercolors and Sculptures (Sotheby's, Taipei)

1995.9.17	       Fine Modern Chinese Oil, Ink & Watercolor Paintings (Christie's Swire, Taipei)

1996.01.28	Zhen-Cang'96 First Chinese Paintings, Drawings and Calligraphy Auction

1996.01.29     Fine Modern Chinese Oil, Ink & Watercolor Paintings (Chirstie's Swire, Hong Kong)

1996.06.16	Heritage Art Center Spring, 96 Chinese Paintings and Fine Arts  Auction

2004.12.06	2004 Chinese Paintings and Arts Auction, Pau-li, Shanghai

2007.11	       Yu Jen International Art & Antiques: 2007 Taiwan Contemporary Art Boutiques Autumn Auction

2007.12.04	Taipei, Art#1, Contemporary Art: 2007 Contemporary Chinese Arts Autumn Auction

2008.05.18	Taipei, Art#1, Chinese Paintings: 2008 Chinese Arts of Calligraphy and Paintings Spring Auction

2008.05	       Yu Jen International Art & Antiques: 2007 Taiwan Contemporary Art Boutiques Spring Auction

2008.11	       Taipei, Art#1, Contemporary Art: Contemporary Chinese Arts Autumn Auction