Taiwanese artist simulates ink painting with nail gun
Source:Xinhua Published: 2012-7-22 14:03:59
Photo taken on July 20, 2012 shows part of Taiwanese artist Chen Chun-Hao's mosquito nail drawing work Buddhist Temple in Mountain at Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts in Taipei, southeast China's Taiwan. Chen Chun-Hao is a Taiwanese artist who replaces paintbrush with nail guns in copying the traditional Chinese ink paintings. He uses a nail gun to shoot thousands of small mosquito nails, or headless nails, into a canvas-covered wood board to reproduce traditional Chinese ink masterpieces. Looking from a certain distance, these nails on the wood board together form fine lines and delicate shadows under the light. But looking closer, the nails' sharp metallic nature come forth. For the young artist, this kind of imitating is not a way of simple copy but recreation. He tried to look for the possibility for creation within the physical limitation of certain materials. Photo: Xinhua
A visitor watches Taiwanese artist Chen Chun-Hao's nail drawing work Buddhist Temple in Mountain at Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts in Taipei, southeast China's Taiwan, July 20, 2012. Photo: Xinhua
Taiwanese artist Chen Chun-Hao works to copy a traditional Chinese ink painting with mosquito nails at his workshop in Taipei, southeast China's Taiwan, June 16, 2012. Photo: Xinhua
Taiwanese artist Chen Chun-Hao simulates a traditional Chinese ink painting "Wind in Pines Among a Myriad Valleys" with mosquito nails according to the painting on his laptop at his workshop in Taipei, southeast China's Taiwan, June 16, 2012. Photo: Xinhua
Taiwanese artist Chen Chun-Hao (L) communicates with a visitor in front of his mosquito nail drawing work at Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts in Taipei, southeast China's Taiwan, July 20, 2012. Photo: Xinhua
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