Artwork Appreciation
Artist CHEN Yan-Ru’s work conveys the tranquility of extreme silence. He is good at taking images such as mountains, sky, land, and sea as the reflection of his mental sorrowful landscape. In his work Early Morning, the artist divides the image into yellow and black parts. The yellow part symbolizes the sky of sunshine and the black part symbolizes the steadily flowing ocean. Between the ocean and sky is a floating island piled up by spots. The artist composes the levels of the image with the strong contrast of colors and makes the work look like a tranquil landscape painting and an abstract painting with simple colors. CHEN Yan-Ru’s brush can turn the concrete landscape into abstract geometric symbols. Each stroke and color block implies the childhood memory and nostalgia in his mind. It is also what his mental emotions depend on.