Hsieh Li-fa

Prints made by Hsieh Li-fa are held in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

The installation artwork "Drifting Light Coordinate" is located in Fubao Ecological Park, Fuxing Township, Changhua County, made of 374 pieces of driftwood.

In 1981, A History of Art Movements in Taiwan During the Japanese Era won the second Wu Yung-fu Cultural Criticism Award.

The mixture of diverse information allowed Hsieh to accept various ideas and express them in his art and writing creations.

Hsieh received special instruction from Wang Chien-chu, and he was admitted to the Taiwan Provincial Normal University in 1955.

Students who were admitted in the same year include Wu Wen-yao, Wang Hsiu-hsiung, Lee Yung-han, Su Shih-hsiung, Ho Ching-yin, Chen Ruei-kang, Liang Shiow-chung, Li Kuen-pei, Liao Shiou-ping, Chang Kuang-yuan, Wang Chia-cheng, Chiang Chien-fei, Fu Shen, Fu You-wu, Lou Wen, and others.

Hsieh was influenced by his teacher and began to plan his way abroad after graduation, heading to Paris, France.

In Paris, Hsieh also extended the series "The Man Who Opened the Door" to depict the alienation of Parisian people from the world.

Here Hsieh Li-fa came into contact with artists from different creative fields around the world and also initiated a printmaking association with a Yugoslav painter.

The central content of his creation gradually centered on the discussion of political issues, resulting in the "War and Peace" series.

Winning first place in the printmaking department of the exhibition also made Hsieh Li-fa famous in the Taiwanese art scene.

In 1971, Hsieh Li-fa's works were exhibited at the National Museum of History and the Taiwan Provincial Taichung Library and gradually enjoyed a certain degree of popularity in the country.

These award-winning experiences at home and abroad also caused various rumors in the Taiwanese art circle about Hsieh, who was not in Taiwan.

Through the letters written by "Master" to the girl "A Li", Hsieh introduced art to young students in approachable terms.

Later, Lion Art also planned a series of special editions on Taiwanese artists, with Hsieh responsible for half of the articles.

Hsieh Li-fa's creations are in various forms, combined with curatorial concepts, and he has also dabbled in "land art".

Since Fubao's outlet is located at Below the aircraft flight path, this artistic creation is called a work that can be seen from an airplane.

For Hsieh Li-fa, cows symbolize return and the feeling and affection for the soil of his hometown in Taiwan.

The Juan I-jong Taiwan Story Museum has planned a special exhibition for the Year of the Ox.

It invites Mr. Hsieh Li-fa, an important Taiwanese artist and art historian who is born in the year of the Ox and loves to draw cows, to exhibit a variety of wonderful and diverse ox painting outputs, paired with Juan in the 1980s, Juan I-jong photographed various forms of cattle in various places in Taiwan, as well as photo records of the Beigang Cow Market, which was once prosperous but is now invisible, as well as the "Five Cows Picture" painted by Han Huang, a painter of the Tang Dynasty 1,200 years ago.The output product is the earliest extant paper and silk painting with cattle as the theme, which is of great significance.