Tabletop
Yang Wei-Chung
楊維中
Production date
2009
Object Detail
Media
oil on canvas
Measurements
227 x 161.5 cm
Notes
As an art student in Taiwan during the 1960s Yang Wei-Chung absorbed the lessons of European and American modernism – echoes of the light-filled canvases of the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists; the flattened perspectives, shallow pictorial space and overlapping forms of the Cubists; the joyfully vivid colour of the Fauvists and the layered pigments of Hans Hoffman and Arshile Gorky may all be found in his lush, beautifully composed still life canvases. Yang loves music and finds that it guides his painting – his work, too, is rhythmic and lyrical. The quiet, intensely concentrated world within the studio informs Yang Wei-Chung’s work; we know immediately that this is an artist who observes the world around him with an astute and careful gaze. In ‘Tabletop’ the simple forms of everyday objects such as bottles, jars, cups and plates of fruit take on a new, mysterious significance.
Accession number
2015.045