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Artwork Analysis
"Antithesis and Intertext I" by Lin Pey-Chwen consists of 60 dazzling-color square images, each measuring 45 cm x 45 cm, which are brought into an arrangement of 10 columns and 6 rows. Present in the artwork are all kinds of symbols and forms, including a painted fan, text embroidery, an image of bound feet, and paper cut-outs on beauty and weight loss.
Lin Pey-Chwen ingeniously employs mediums and techniques such as silk print, oil, canvas, artificial silk and electric embroidery to create one unique image after another. The images of lotus flowers, high heels, bound feet and Chinese ladies in ancient costumes are hand-painted with oil paint. Others are embroidered on blue, purple, red nylon and silk fabrics with golden threads to show words like "Fragrant, Soft, Square" and "Slim, Small, Pointed, Bent." Still others are presented with silk print: images of women's bound feet, magazine clips about women's beauty and weight loss are printed on black canvas. The overall result is a rendition of diverse and rich imageries and sceneries.
"Antithesis and Intertext I" brims with plentiful feminine imageries. Lin Pey-Chwen stated, "My appropriation of images, text, and materials calls for a meditation on Chinese women's bodies and the phenomena that have been defined and examined in the past and present, with a view to raising the importance of women establishing self-positioning." "Antithesis and Intertext I" was exhibited in the Taipei Fine Arts Museum in 1995.
Lin Pey-Chwen ingeniously employs mediums and techniques such as silk print, oil, canvas, artificial silk and electric embroidery to create one unique image after another. The images of lotus flowers, high heels, bound feet and Chinese ladies in ancient costumes are hand-painted with oil paint. Others are embroidered on blue, purple, red nylon and silk fabrics with golden threads to show words like "Fragrant, Soft, Square" and "Slim, Small, Pointed, Bent." Still others are presented with silk print: images of women's bound feet, magazine clips about women's beauty and weight loss are printed on black canvas. The overall result is a rendition of diverse and rich imageries and sceneries.
"Antithesis and Intertext I" brims with plentiful feminine imageries. Lin Pey-Chwen stated, "My appropriation of images, text, and materials calls for a meditation on Chinese women's bodies and the phenomena that have been defined and examined in the past and present, with a view to raising the importance of women establishing self-positioning." "Antithesis and Intertext I" was exhibited in the Taipei Fine Arts Museum in 1995.
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