Chu Teh-chun
Chu Teh-chun (1920-2014) was the first Chinese artist to be elected as an academician of the Académie des beaux-arts, representing the supreme honor in the entire art world. Chu Teh-chun, Wu Guanzhong, and Zao Wou-ki together brought a new possibility into Chinese art when they create collision and fusion with Western aesthetics, thus becoming artists remembered by history, and were regarded as the "Three French Musketeers".
Chu Teh-chun's artistic language combines the delicate and sensitive oriental art with the strong strokes of Western painting, creating a new abstract aesthetic with a unique oriental style. He masters in making different pigments blend with each other, bursting out an amazing sense of power and revealing the beauty of the nature. Deep in gloomy clumps, a bright light shines like gems. His works are collected by the world's top-class art institutions and important private collectors. At the Sotheby's Hong Kong 20th Century Evening Sale that just ended, Chu Teh-chun’s "Song of Nature" set a new personal world record for HK$122.75 million.
Chu Teh-chun (1920-2014) was the first Chinese artist to be elected as an academician of the Académie des beaux-arts, representing the supreme honor in the entire art world. Chu Teh-chun, Wu Guanzhong, and Zao Wou-ki together brought a new possibility into Chinese art when they create collision and fusion with Western aesthetics, thus becoming artists remembered by history, and were regarded as the "Three French Musketeers".
Chu Teh-chun's artistic language combines the delicate and sensitive oriental art with the strong strokes of Western painting, creating a new abstract aesthetic with a unique oriental style. He masters in making different pigments blend with each other, bursting out an amazing sense of power and revealing the beauty of the nature. Deep in gloomy clumps, a bright light shines like gems. His works are collected by the world's top-class art institutions and important private collectors. At the Sotheby's Hong Kong 20th Century Evening Sale that just ended, Chu Teh-chun’s "Song of Nature" set a new personal world record for HK$122.75 million.
