Graceful Peaks Rise

Graceful Peaks Rise

— The Art of YU CHENG YAO

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余承堯前半生歷經軍旅生活與商場歷練,56歲始提筆作畫,因而有「將軍畫家」之美譽;其水墨創作無有師承,僅以自然為師,運用細碎密結的筆法,創造出山岩肌理和密實的山形結構。因早年走遍千山萬水,水墨風格帶有浩然卓絕的氣象,不拘泥筆法自成一家,其藝術成就在亞洲現代水墨領域占有重要地位。

YIYUN ART・Qingtian・1F, No. 23, Ln. 12, Qingtian St., Da’an Dist., Taipei
12/10/2025
1/24/2026
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Yu Cheng-Yao(余承堯)

Yu Cheng-Yao (February 28, 1898 – April 4, 1993), born Yu Shun with the courtesy name Cheng-Yao, was a native of Yangshang Township, Yongchun County, Fujian. In 1920, he went to Japan, where he studied economics at Waseda University before transferring to the Imperial Japanese Army Academy in Tokyo. After returning to China, he taught tactics at the Whampoa Military Academy, retired with the rank of lieutenant general in 1946, and came to Taiwan in 1949, the year the Nationalist government relocated there. Having spent the first half of his life in the military and in business, he did not take up painting until the age of 56, earning him the title “the General Painter.” Self-taught and taking nature as his only teacher, he built up rock textures and dense mountain structures with fine, tightly woven brushstrokes. Shaped by his travels across China’s mountains and rivers in his early years, his ink paintings carry a grand, lofty spirit and a style entirely his own, securing him an important place in modern Asian ink painting. His major exhibitions include his first overseas solo exhibition, at the Chinese Cultural Center in New York in 1977; his first solo exhibition in Taiwan, held at the age of 88 at Hsiung Shih Gallery in Taipei in 1986; a solo exhibition at Hong Kong City Hall in 1987; Yu Cheng-Yao at Ninety: A Retrospective at the National Museum of History in Taipei in 1988; and A Heart-warming Glance: Calligraphy and Paintings by Yu Cheng-Yao at the National Museum of History in 2015.
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