Memories of Tamsui

(Tamsui, Taipei)
1993
Wu-Yung Hsu · at age 
73
Oil on canvas
91 × 72.5 cm
My memories of passing by the town of Tamsui after returning from a hiking trip 60years ago left a beautiful impression in my mind. The Tamsui Church, WhiteBuilding, and Guan Ying Mountain are all still the same. However, the surrounding landscape of Tamsui is recreated from my memories of the small  quaint old houses, red oxcarts, black buffaloes, a young girl I remember from the visit, a junk ship under the sunset’s afterglow, a proud rooster walking across the middle of the roads, etc.. All of these sights disappeared from the Tamsui we now know. Cubism is used to combine all the beautiful and distant memories I have of Tamsui.

淡水之回憶

1993
許武勇.
73
油彩.畫布
91 × 72.5 cm
60年前登山的歸途,經過淡水的回憶太美。畫中的淡水教堂,白樓的後樓,觀音山山容依舊都沒什麼變化。但周圍的淡水風景是從回憶中創造出來的,可愛的古老房屋,紅色牛車,青黑色水牛,記憶中的少女,夕陽餘暉或月影下的戎克船,盛裝的雄雞在路中央闊步等,已從現在的淡水消失。以立體派技巧統合存在回憶中的甘美幻影所繪的淡水。