Ming Ming

作品賞析

Viewing the paintings of artist Tsai Wei-Ting is like watching movies. He sets out the inner drama and storyline of the characters within the paintings’ details. In Ming Ming, the male figure on the right side of the composition reaches out as if wanting to hold the woman’s face, and he is about to kiss her, but this action is blocked by the blackberry roses between them, which implies that love has actually become a memory. The figures in Tsai Wei-Ting’s paintings are usually blurry, but here the woman has clear facial contours and eyes, and the branches and leaves of the blackberry roses wrapped about her face show her inner tangled emotions after a breakup. Her eyes fully express her sense of loss—you can almost hear her inner sigh. The blackberry roses filling the painting are like the brilliant fireworks of love, but the low-chroma tones show that after the lovers break up, even the warmest, sweetest memories are ultimately dulled with gloomy melancholy.