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T'ang Haywen (Chinese 曾海文, 1927–1991) was a Chinese-born painter who spent most of his professional life in Paris. His work is deeply admired for its fusion of the Chinese spiritual aesthetic of ink brush painting with Western abstract expressionism. His reputation has grown since his death thanks to some major retrospective exhibitions. In 1968 in the foreword of an exhibition at Galerie de Beaune founded by Suzanne de Coninck T'ang declared: ″''I was born on the island of Amoy, in southern China. I learned to write and to paint with my grandfather T’ang Yien, who was a scholar, a painter and a calligrapher. I had never travelled, so could compare with no other place. Nonetheless I was deeply struck by the beauty of the land in which I lived then. High mountains, islands, the sea of the tropic of Cancer (the same latitude as the Canary Islands). I grew up, so to speak, among the flowers, the trees, the fish and the birds. These put an everlasting mark upon my imagination and my memory.The war came; my family sought refuge in Vietnam. Later I came to Europe, and have worked in Paris since 1949. My painting is neither figurative nor abstract, nor does it belong to the neo-figurative school. Such classifications seem to me limited. I seek an art without restrictions that allows me to evolve freely''″ ==Early life== T’ang Haywen was born in 1927 in Xiamen in Fujian Province, China. His early intellectual development was deeply influenced by his grandfather, who introduced him to the principles of Taoism, which strongly shaped T'ang's outlook, and later his art. When the Second Sino-Japanese War broke out in 1937, T'ang's family migrated to Vietnam and settled in Cholon, the Chinese district of Saigon, where T'ang's father established a successful silk business. T'ang attended the French school in Saigon and learned calligraphy from his grandfather. At the age of 19, T'ang adopted the name Haywen: when written in Chinese, the name consists of the ideograms for "sea" and "literature". (The name would be written hǎiwén in the pinyin romanisation system; "T'ang" is a regional pronunciation of his surname character 曾, which is pronounced "zēng" in standard Chinese.) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「T'ang Haywen」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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