Yu Peng 于彭

Born in Taipei, Taiwan in 1955, Yu Peng was trained in many visual arts media, including pottery, drawing, still-life sketching, traditional ink painting, and oil painting. His brushwork is often deliberately unorthodox and childlike, a quality that is very close to the traditional Chinese literati aesthetics of intentional awkwardness (zuo). Yu Peng's landscapes are often deliberately fragmented and disorderly, with human figures, animals, and vegetation juxtaposed without any rational linkages. He has become one of the most important ink painters of his generation in Taiwan.