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Chen Chin
Earliest Woman Artist of Eastern Gouache Painting in Taiwan: Histories beneath Warm Gaze

Name(Chinese letter)
陳進
Name
Chen Chin
Media
Painting
Region
Taiwan
Year of Birth
1907
Place of Birth
Kōzan, Shinchiku (present Xiangshan District, Hsinchu) , Taiwan
Year of Death
1998
Place of Death
Taiwan

After studying in Taipei, Chen Chin enrolled at the Japanese Painting Section of the Tokyo Women’s University of Art in 1925, following the advice from Gobara Koto, and was trained under Yuki Somei Chen became a student of Kaburaki Kiyokata when she graduated from the university in 1929 and was given guidance from Ito Shinsui and others. Her works were admitted in the Imperial Exhibition (Teiten) in 1934 and the New Ministry of Education Art Exhibition (Bunten) in 1936. She became a representative painter of Taiwan modern paintings. Her paintings employed clear and flat compositions, fresh colors and delicate depiction. In her early days, she explored subject matters to search for the identity of Taiwanese, then painted family scenes and members before she shifted to depict Buddhist tales.

日本語

Plate of artwork

The Women of Shantimen Area

1936

Colleciton of Fukuoka Asian Art Museum

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