A set of four stamps, with a face value of NT$9 each, featuring four famous paintings by modern Taiwanese artists from the Taipei Fine Arts Museum are to be issued tomorrow, Chunghwa Post Co said.
The Tamsui Landscape (淡水風景), an oil on canvas painting by renowned painter Chen Cheng-po (陳澄波) in 1935, is a bird’s-eye view of the Tamsui townscape, with houses scattered high and low on the hillside terrain and a winding path on the side, showing layers of rich dimension.
Chen Houei-kuen (陳慧坤) created the oil on canvas painting Yehliu Scenery (野柳風光) in 1969. The yellowish-brown rocks and the blue seawater in the painting form a strong contrast in colors, dark brown is used to trace the smooth outlines of the rocks and sea, and light pastel blue, pastel purple and white were used show the vastness of the sky.
Photo courtesy of Chunghwa Post
A Sea of Clouds at Alishan (阿里山雲海) is an oil on linen canvas painting by Liao Ji-chun (廖繼春) from 1953. It depicts layers of soft pink clouds drifting toward the horizon and clusters of totem-style trees in the foreground.
Contemporary artist Ma Pai-sui (馬白水) in 1989 painted Mt Jade Covered in Snow (玉山積雪) using watercolor and ink on paper. It is composed of 14 paintings, which can each stand alone as individual artworks, that form a single large composition when assembled. Altogether, the paintings create the effect of viewing the magnificent landscape of Jade Mountain through a window.
Chunghwa Post Co said it would also release specialized First Day Covers, First Day Cover souvenir sheets, folders (with or without mounts) for the new stamps, which are to be on sale today.
To purchase postage stamps, you can go to the post office or order online on the Postal Stamps Mall Web site (https://stamp.post.gov.tw), it said.
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