Third Place

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Chin Hsien Lin Taichung City, Taiwan Shuan’s Silence, oil on canvas, 53 x 45½ cm (21 x 18")

Inspiration: The sitter for this painting, Shuan, was one of Chin’s students. Inspired to create a feeling of calmness and elegance, Chin selected one of his students to be his model because of her personality, modesty and quietness. In the pose Chin was drawn to the sunshine on Shuan’s pale face and then her confident gaze encouraged him to capture all the subtle details to transform a spirit of calmness and elegance into a physical image, to meditate the value to be a human being.

Artistic Path: Chin is an instructor and currently serves as the Chair of the Fine Art Department of National Taichung University of Education in Taiwan. He graduated from the Fine Art Department of National Taiwan Normal University where he received his PH.D. His thesis focused on the research of the Golden Age of Dutch art and contained the study of the context of selected portraits and genre paintings in 17th century.