《Anita Wong’s Art Works》
Anita spent time abroad in her early years, having first obtained a Diploma in Interior Design from Portsmouth College of Art & Design, U.K., she then went on to the Byam Shaw School of Art, U.K., and subsequently McNeese State University, USA, to pursue her art degree. After returning to Taiwan, she began teaching at the Taiwan Art Institute (presently known as National Taiwan University of Arts). After leaving teaching to move into the world of business, she continued to practice calligraphy, never forgetting her passion for art. Anita Wong’s art expresses her love for nature, immersing oneself in the goodness of nature, sometimes grand and majestic, sometimes endearing and light, serene and distant, capturing all the different facets of life. Year 2000 onwards, she devoted herself to art creation. Her art style grew more mature and confident, blending Eastern and Western philosophies, shifting between traditional and contemporary, and maintaining a clever balance between abstract and concrete, instantly transporting the audience into a different realm. This was her most prolific period, and Anita Wong was invited to participate in numerous important exhibitions both at home and abroad, such as the Asia Invitation Art Exhibition, Seoul, Korea, and the Formosa, Contemporary Art in Taiwan, Barcelona, Spain; she also held solo exhibitions in the Sejong Center for Performing Arts, Seoul, Korea, as well as the National Dr. Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall, Taipei, Taiwan.
Series Introduction
Life On Earth (early works)
Her heart and spirit moulded by the rigorous training of the academy, Anita attempts to infuse oriental symbols of local folk culture into Western painting, allowing intertextual dialogue between East and West cultures, thereby gradually expanding ideas and broadening horizons.
Brush Moving Mountains And Rivers
As if seeing the world through the opened windows of the heart, hence, the brush moves mountains and rivers, creating wind and water, with the movement of nature stirring in her canvas. The sky seems endless, with time appearing to flow through the moving clouds; the sea also appears boundless, the waves turbulent or calm, giving time a sense of movement. There is rain, there is wind, and there are mountains and rivers, all conversing with one another; this is Anita’s “Moving Mountains and Rivers”.
Deep Clouds Near The Sea
The sea, the clouds, the frenzy of strokes in the infinite sky, comprising of different blues with tints of gray, purple or dark green, resulting in a multitude of various dynamic and dignified lines, or flowing and ethereal blocks of colour, sometimes entangled, sometimes scattered.
“Tranquility”, is it really calm? Wind and cloud come inside through the window in “Activation”, drifting through different spatial dimensions. Where next for the journey to explore the spiritual space? A ladder is needed to go “Into the Sea & Clouds”, so she built one; next a road is needed, so she built that too, layer upon layer and then eventually “Through the Clouds”.
Magnificence Of Heaven And Earth
The commotion and tranquility between Heaven and Earth, Yin Yang and the five elements, people’s emotions follow and consequently have their ups and downs, seemingly contradictory but yet harmonious at the same time. Mountains and rivers can move, but man cannot move mountains and rivers; finding the natural path in an unnatural environment, facing our innermost emotions to cultivate peace and harmony from our internal turmoil, akin to the poetic metaphor of Oriental aesthetics.
The Final Harmony Of Life (non-exhibited works)
Using more hues of blue is a reflection of the artist’s spiritual state of comfort, and also her poetic language, derived from her low-key lifestyle going through decades of dramatic changes in life, and eventually culminating in life journey’s final harmony.
Poetic Ink Dance
A part of daily life, a true calligrapher with solid foundations writes words with temperament, form, and stance, exuding power, and ever-changing possibilities. Sometimes simple and calm, sometimes elegant and graceful, but firm and unwavering such is her character.
