AND BEFORE I LEAVE FOR CHINA......
Vue en ville - 1956 When I was talking about Serge Poliokoff, I mentioned that some abstract art is too busy and can shout at you because it’s moving all over the place. Some might say this of Chu Teh-Chun’s work. I don’t find it so as the closer one looks at his abstraction, the more forms and recognizable (for the viewer) shapes become.
He was born in in China (Baitou ) in 1920. He lives in France today and has taken out French nationality. Chu was the last of three sons. I gather the law of a one child per family was not applicable at that moment. He came from a wealthy and artistic family His father and grandfather were doctors and collectors of calligraphies and Chinese paintings. A Professor at the University and recognized as such, he still moved to France in in 1955 with Tung Ching-Chao (a student) leaving his wife and daughter behind in China. I gather the Louvre was his first stop but it was in 1956 that he discovered the work of Nicolas de Staël...and abstract a