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Teng Hiok Chiu [Chinese born American Painter, 1903-1972]
Biography
China's first modern painter was born into a storybook world, and briefly lived a storybook life. The vibrant abstract landscapes of Teng Chiu were a sensation in London and New York in the late 1920s and '30s. But the artist Teng fell through the cracks of history: He was forgotten in the West for decades until a set of his canvases was discovered in a New Orleans auction catalogue. For political reasons he was never known in his native land. Only this year did the painter - a man once called "probably the most promising painter in [London's] Royal Academy" - get an official nod in China.
In his day, critics couldn't decide whether it was Teng's life or art that merited more attention. He was a pioneer of internationalism, a painter without borders. He had lived and worked on four continents by the age of 30. His travels took him from Bali to Morocco, from the Green Mountains to the Forbidden City. Teng was the first Chinese to have mastered what was then an avant-garde post-Impressionist style. The son of a prominent Chinese Protestant minister, he was educated in Boston, Paris, then London. His 1929 solo show was attended by England's Queen Mary. (continued on the bottom)
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Teng Hiok Chiu in Museums and Web Sites (Click on link to view image)
Museum of the City of New York
Traditional Fine Arts Online - Teng Hiok Chiu's Artistic Journey
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Growing up inside a thick network of Christianity, including a missionary school in a city just outside Beijing, Teng was exposed early to ideas of reform and of "the modern," which were sweeping the West. He went briefly to Harvard and then to the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, to, as he put it, seek the meaning of art. After attending the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, and the Royal Academy of Arts in London, his art became noticed, and sought after. Proceeds from sales of his work allowed Teng to travel extensively in Asia, Africa, and the US.
His broad thinking and search for underlying patterns, along with his articulate postwar idealism - earned him notice by the London bureau of this newspaper in 1928. The role of the artist, Teng offered, is to help mankind find "the same truth and righteousness, by learning to appreciate the same beauty.... As I go forward I realize that in art there is neither East nor West, and that some day there must be the Art of the New World Civilization," he told a Monitor reporter.
Then came World War II. Teng sought refuge in the States. In China, the victory of the Communists in 1949 meant no return for Teng. His marriage to a niece of Soong Mei-ling, wife of nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek, didn't help. Teng remained prolific, working largely in Vermont. But during the Korean War he was beaten in New Hampshire by locals who mistook him for a Korean. His output waned, and he seemed to disappear.