Yeh Tzuchi

Oil over tempera on linen
38 x 45.7 cm.15 x 18 in.
Signed 'Ziqi' in Chinese and dated on the lower right
Yeh Tzuchi
(b.1957-)
Since his study in art department of university, Yeh Tzuchi has been committed to the creation of realistic paintings. In early 1980s he went to the United States and used realistically painted “Bathroom Series” to convey his intense homesickness. Since then, Yeh Tzuchi often uses still lifes and landscapes as theme, and commits ups and downs and injuries and deaths of lives by way of portraying small things. In 1989 he started his “Monolog
For Yeh Tzuchi, painting has always been diary of living and records of life. Whether it is a still life, a landscape, or a character, his realistic and metaphorical skills have a easy-to-transform style, are filled with a rich and peculiar personal feelings, and a mysterious yet objectively existed spiritual symbol, he mixes egg tempera and oil painting techniques to make picture color bright, texture delicate, and full of classic charm and flav
When Yeh Tzuchi is moved by a theme object image, he often takes a long time to deliberate, places the object in a most appropriate space, and precisely calculates every square inch of viewpoint height of theme object image and distance of space edge,
expecting to release the spiritual forces of the theme object image and his inner mind, and extracting and refining the object image to a metaphysical realm with portrait painting spirit. “Dialogue‧Bell Fruit II” was started in 2003, really completed in 2013, lasting for almost 10 years, it seemingly contains the whole transition of mind of Yeh Tzuchi from returning to Taiwan till now, the bell fruits not only evoke his memories of eastern