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Taiwanese Landscape Exhibition at the T.F. Chen Cultural Center |
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Dr.
T. F. Chen is a painter, writer, visionary, initiator of "Neo-Iconography"
in art, designated "Cultural Ambassador" and "United
Nations Global Tolerance Award" recipient. A Taiwanese-American,
Chen earned a Ph. D in Art History from la Sorbonne, and established
his "Five-Dimensional Universal Multi-Culture" theory.
Recognized as "one of the 20 most influential artists in the
world today," Chen has had more than 100 one-man exhibitions
worldwide. Chen maintains studios both in New York and Taipei and
has continued to work and exhibit internationally. When he is in
Taiwan, Chen enjoys painting landscapes that express the remarkable
beauty of his homeland. Although the natural environment of the
"Ilha Formosa" has been affected by modernization, Chen
points out that one would still be astonished by the exquisite scenery
that he has experienced deep in the countryside, along the seashores
and high up in the mountains.
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Having
toured the island countless times in his career, Dr. Chen has captured
the landscape of Taiwan from north to south. Of particular interest,
he has painted scenes from Danshui, Yangming-shan, Honghsi, Yeliu,
Hwalien, Kending, Tainan, Mt. Ali, Mt. Jade, and Meilong, to name
a few. Since "Tourism for Peace" is becoming an international
movement, Dr. Chen, as the recipient of UN's Global Tolerance Award
(2001), would like to employ his art towards that purpose. As many
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