ZHONG CHENG

孫家勤 SUN CHIACHIN (1930-2010)

Born in Dailian, Liaoning. Sun is the youngest son of the warlord-general Sun Chuan-Fang, he lived with his mother and was initiated by her into the world of flower painting. Growing up, he went to Beijing to study figure painting under Chen Lin-Zhai. This apprenticeship period was followed by his entrance into the Department of Arts at Fu-Jen Catholic University in Beijing. In 1956, he came to Taiwan and studied in the Department of Fine Arts at National Taiwan Normal University. After graduation, he remained at NTNU as a teacher and, along with Hu Nain-Zu and Yu Chang-Lin, organized the Li-Shui Art Studio, the first artistic group in Taiwan.In 1963, Sun Chia-Chin was introduced to Chang Dai-Chien. The very next year he resigned from his teaching post and left for Brazil to study under Chang, who later saw him as his last close disciple. During his three years’ study with Chang, Sun focused on the figure painting of the Tang and Song dynasties. He also gained access to the manuscripts of the Dunhuang murals that Chang personally copied in the grottoes. In the field of landscape painting, Sun also emulated Chang’s style. In 1992, Sun returned to Taiwan as an exchange professor at National Taiwan Normal University. And became a profrssor at Chinese Cultural University.

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