Taiwan Fine Arts Exhibition
Oriental Painting Department Many famous painters at that time, such as Tsai Shiue-Shi, Lu Tie-Zhou, Li Xue-Qiao, and Kunishima Suiba, were rejected.
However, according to Xue Lifa, he believes there are ink-copying elements among the selected works by Takatori Gakuyo, Isaka Kyokko, and even the Taiwanese Kuo Hseuh-hu.
This year's special selection, The Ghost Festival in Keelung by Hideo Murakami, depicts Taiwanese local customs, but its art style looked like an extension of the Japanese ukiyo-e. Others, such as Relaxed and Cool by Suda Anzai and Dance of a Hundred Butterflies by Tsunehisa Tokoharu, all show Japanese paintings' characteristics of line drawing, delicateness, and heavier application of paint than dyeing.
Matsubayashi encouraged painters to create local art that genuinely belonged to Taiwan, which this point was repeatedly emphasised in subsequent exhibitions.
Kuo Hsueh-hu changed the traditional landscape painting style of the previous exhibition and used gouache with detailed depictions to present the gorgeous masterpiece Scenery Near Yuan Shan.
[10] Shi Yushan's Festival of Chaotian Temple followed the popular theme of folk activities and had attracted considerable attention for its unique representation of perspectives and its depiction of modern elements.
The characteristics of the "Taiwan exhibition type" mentioned by Gohara should include the creative attitude of sketching and the use of bright and flat colours.
In addition to Lin Yushan's Lotus Pond, which was added to the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts collection, Kuo Hsueh-hu's Festival on South Street and Xiang Yuan's "Taiwan Mountain and Sea Screen" are also added to the collection of Taipei Fine Arts Museum.
Kuo Hsueh-hu's teacher, Cai Xuexi's work "Dragon Boat" for this session is also similar, and its content also deliberately presents the various ethnic groups in Taiwan at that time.
Works with unique styles, in addition to "Sisters Nong Om Butterfly" by Cai Mada, "Spring Night" by Xu Qinglian cannot be ignored.
Lu Tiezhou's "Spring in the Forest" is quite similar to "Autumn in the Trees" by Shimomura Kanzan and "Falling Leaves" by Hishida Haruna, both of which are masterpieces from the Japan Fine Arts Exhibition.
Lu Tiezhou and Kuo Hsueh-hu won the Taiwan Exhibition Award with their consistent style and more mature and sophisticated attitude.
Lu Tiezhou's "Back Courtyard" presents Taiwan's native flowers and birds in an ideal form and excellent layout.
Lin Yushan's "Zhu Luan" has a leisurely, wild charm, significantly contrasting the gorgeous feeling of the previous "Lotus Pond."
"The Poet's Flowers Fall" by Cai Mada (Wen Fu) is also a work with a rural feel and captures the momentary dynamics of the characters.
Huang Jingshan's "Flower" won the Taiwanese Film Festival, and Pan Chunyuan's "Women" realistically and meticulously depicts the interior layout of the time that blended the earth and the West and the clothing and appearance of a prostitute.
Oriental Painting Department Lu Tiezhou's "Castor and Army Chicken" uses his consistent plant depiction style, with an enlarged rooster on the right, making the picture full of surging momentum.
Art critic Xi Guiyilu pointed out that the Taiwan Exhibition has become rigid and must be reformed; otherwise, many people will be unwilling to participate.
In contrast, Murasawa Setsuko's "Pretend to Be a Family Sake" is relatively flat in shape, emphasising the expressiveness of lines and full of interest in life.
Pan Chunyuan abandoned the solid sculptural style of previous editions and was selected with the traditional ink painting "Dawn Color in a Mountain Village."
He painted the activities of urban women in Taiwan, but he abandoned the depiction of street scenes and only used a shallow depth of ground to represent roads.
Lu Tiezhou's "Southern Country," which won the Taiwan Exhibition Award last year, and Chen Jinghui's "Road," which won the Taiwan Japan Award, use presented compositions to express the results of sketching, which is different from Guo Xuehu's style of filling the whole frame with gorgeous style.
Lu Yunyou of the Chiayi School of Painting inherited this year's style line and presented the individual plants he sketched in the Huxian Flower Orchard.
This year, the autumn mountains and spring waters continue the gorgeous style that fills the whole frame, and the trend of clearly presented themes also influences them.
Among the works of other famous artists, Kuo Hsueh-hu continued his experiments in southern Chinese painting, all based on the expression of ink lines.
In contrast, Chen Jinghui's "Noodle Making" describes the working conditions of rural farmers, both of which are mature expressions of "local colour."
For example, Chen Jin's "Music Score," Lin Yushan's "Chao," Nomura Senzuki's "Autumn Melody," Xie Yonghuo's "Coke Kiln," etc., all express modern life and symbols.
Yataro Miyata, who has been continuously selected since the first Taiwan Exhibition and often presents unique works, finally received a special honour.
The woman's body in the painting is elongated, too thin, and slightly awkward, which is closer to the dramatic, romantic, and decadent expressions in literary illustrations.
The recipients of this commendation from the Oriental Painting Department are Chen Jin, Lin Yushan, Kuo Hsueh-hu, Hideo Murakami, and Yataro Miyata.
