TIEN CHANG
ARTIST
ABOUT TIEN CHANG
Tien Chang is broadly known as an artist who has special passion in the painting of horses.
He was born in 1951, Taipei Taiwan where he grew up and had his early education. Through his young age and youth he had grown a tremendous interest in the subjects of arts and developed his talents in painting which was greatly influenced by the Chinese cultures and his love of Asian arts, literatures, humanity, and histories.
His path to the art fields was destined but not forced that allowed him wander freely to explore through the adventure with no boundaries. He has found his inspiration in Chinese ink-wash painting world where he could go deep inside emotionally, spiritually and technically.
Needless to say that Tien Chang’s paintings reflect his own unique creativity as well as his honesty toward the interpretation of the natural world through his eyes and feelings; he uses brushes, ink, colors, rice paper, and canvas to express the beauty of the “image of mind” and his paintings have been continuously evolving and revolutionary in each phases of his life.
There is an abundance of passion showing in his horse paintings.
His paintings invite the audience to feel the spirits of the horses and what his insights are into the concept of the artistic expressions that based on eastern aesthetics and he passionately substantiate all those concepts through the beautiful shapes, lines, ink shades, shadow, blank, dots and brush strokes in his horse painting that transcendent beyond ancient times in entering into the enormous space as if he catches the moments of horse’s movement.
He communicates with you what he sees horses in his mind that can be transformed into art. They are not just horses of animal shapes but animals of spirits and purity that expand your visual sense into another dimension.
His art works have been shown in Canada as well as internationally including China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, and collected by some art galleries, libraries, and private collections.
章天柱，著名畫家，以擅長畫馬聞名。
1951年生於台灣台北市。自幼喜愛的繪畫，並受中國文化的薰陶，對東方的藝術，文化，歴史，
美學有深厚的喜愛。
他的藝術心路，似乎註定要自由奔放，無拘無束。他在中國水墨及文人畫中長期讃研探索，使他
能與之在情感上，心靈上，技巧上深度共鳴。
他的作品中反映出其創作的獨特性及他心中對自然世界真誠関愛。他以水墨，色彩，宣紙或帆布
，傳達「心象」的美妙。而在他成長的各個階段，創意都有各具亮點的不同風貌。
「充滿激情」，「躍然紙上」是他畫作的特色。
他的作品，表達馬的精神及他的東方美學思維及藝術見解。以美麗的點， 綫，面，姿態，光影，
筆觸，留白等元素呈現美的昇華。好像捕捉到馬兒在廣原馳騁的瞬間英姿一般。
他以物象與心象的轉化做為通達藝術的渠道。並使「外形與內涵」協力延伸觀者的視覺経驗和境
界。
他的作品曾在加拿大，中國，香港，台灣，日本及韓國展覧並廣為收藏。
