Artwork Appreciation
PAN Hsien-Jen’s Square-Yellow is an abstract reflection of drawing spaces. The composition consists of a continuous series of sequentially shrinking square frames moving away from the edge to the center while assuming an increasingly darker tone, creating a minimalist abstract presentation that converts a 2D drawing into a 3D illusion. The orderly and repeated geometries appear to be a bottomless hole extending down into the canvas, or can be regarded as a step pyramid extending upwards toward the viewer. A brightly colored square frame is placed at the epicenter of the visual illusion in an attempt to return the image to the canvas. PAN Hsien-Jen uses simple colors and geometries to construct an abstract space filled with boundless imaginations filled with rhythm.