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Yang Ming-Dye is a very important
print artist in Taiwan.He adopts glass,silk and paper pulp as his major mediums
for art creation and applies them to three-dimensional sculptures and
installations.Though being widely celebrated ,he remains humble and genuine.He
has a gentle and affectionate temperament.Taking up his residence in Tainan,he
lives a simple life and works hard on perfecting his mastery of printmaking at
ease and in peace.Those who know the artist and his works well can see profound
serenity in his mild and calm demeanor,while we can catch a glimpse of the same
characteristics in his serene artworks.
The first period of Yang Ming-Dye’s career as an artist is generally
agreed to be the years before 1985.We may call this stage the Germination
Period. During this phase,he adopted and displaced the photographed images of
Taiwanese folk religions in his works. The representative works of this period
include series like Real and Imaginary,lllusion,
and Mountain Landscapes.The second
phase of his career,as we may call the Condensation Period,was from 1985 to
1995.In this period,he used the abstract points,lines,and planes of the cadastral
maps as art elements and made variations on them. The works were created in a
free style that echoed the theme of nature.Important works during this time are
The Pastoral Idyll,Legends,Traces and other series.It is it this period that Yang’s style was
established.
After he want to study in the US in
1995,Yang began to apply the tachniques of printmaking to sculptures that were
made of mediums such as paper,glass and mental.By displaying these works in a
three-dimensional way,he made flat printing solid. The third phase is the
Expansion Period,in which Yang combined mediums of different properties and
used them to create works.Series like Dispersed Clouds and Clouds in the Water
are the fruits produced in this period.In the recent years,in addition to his
continuous efforts on multiple print installation,he has progressed into the
Serenity Period.Simple lines and tranquil coloring have become important art
elements in his works. The disposition to simplify lines and colors is
especially obvious in Water Coat and Grass Coat.In these two series,it seems
that Yang has turned back to the original two-dimensional art.In them,we
observe a return to innocence,that is,an inclination to stay faithful to the
initial resoluteness.
To take a general view of the four periods
aforesaid ,we may conclude that the works of Yang Ming-Dye have gone beyond
what is generally taken as prints and have crossed over into the fields of
sculpture and installation.His achievement is extraordinary
and his influence in printmaking in
Taiwan is tremendous.He has indeed left a lasting imprint in the development of
printmaking.The styles of his art correspond to his mind in different phases of
life.Each period faithfully and warmly reflects the truth of life,and his art
has become serene and tranquil with age.
(Excerpted from “The Warm Glow of
the Oil Lamp-On the Development of Yang Ming-Dye’s Art,”Ni Tsai-Chin)