Sun, Sep 14, 2003 - Page 19 News List

A look at domestic modernists

By Vico Lee  /  STAFF REPORTER

Artists returning from their travels abroad brought back the latest developments in the US art world. Hsi De-chen's (席德進) pop art-influenced portraits placed country folk models against cartoonish backgrounds and experiments with pop art made him a pioneer at the time.

The exhibition divides the vibrant sub-trends in the decade into six sections: "Form Simplified, Ideas Realized," "Form Forsaken for Expression," "The Universe Contained Within," "The Human Image," "The Quiet Revolution," and "Toward a Popular Modernism."

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