〈賞畫〉畫作資訊與口述影像

〈賞畫〉
許深州
1955
膠彩、紙本
134*91.4公分

畫作口述影像

〈賞畫〉（欣賞的賞，畫展的畫）是許深州1955年創作的膠彩作品。長134公分，寬91.4公分。畫作描寫了一般家庭親子生活中拉鋸的場景。

許深州用整個版面畫了一對母子。年輕的母親站在畫面左邊，拿著像是畫展介紹的折頁，眼神堅定地往前看。她有俏麗的短捲髮，穿著合身的旗袍，身材豐腴有致。時髦的旗袍表面有繁複浮凸的絲絨花紋，隱約透出裡層白色的細肩帶襯裙。搭配露出腳趾的白色高跟鞋和棗紅色的皮包，看起來相當貴氣。身後的男孩只到母親腰部，穿著短袖、短褲和涼鞋。只見他兩眼盯著母親嘟起嘴，拉住母親的手，像拔河一樣地後仰、抗拒著。旁邊有一盆觀賞植物。

〈賞畫〉其實是許深州對資深藝術家林之助致敬的作品。林之助1943年得獎的畫作〈好日〉（美好日子的意思）描繪了一對上街買菜的母女。母親穿著改良式的臺灣衫，踩著木屐，一手挽著菜籃，另一手被走累了、耍賴的小女孩拉著不放。旁邊有一朵扔在地上的扶桑花。兩幅畫裡親子拉鋸的姿態相同，只是方向相反。

許深州的創作有膠彩作品寫實、細膩、優美的特質，但畫作主題卻總蘊含他自己對時代脈動和風土民情的觀察，表現出畫家的社會關懷。

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Mother & Child in an Art Exhibition is a gouache painting created by HSU Chen-Chou in 1955. The painting is 134 centimeters tall and 91.4 centimeters wide. It depicts the daily struggles of a regular family, specifically parent-child relationship.

HSU Chen-Chou fills the entire frame with a mother and her son. The young mother stands on the left of the painting and is holding what appears to be the exhibition pamphlet as she looks determinately ahead. She has stylish short curly hair and is wearing a fitting cheongsam that highlights her curves. The fashionable cheongsam is adorned with exquisite velvet prints and reveals a white slip dress inside. She’s paired her outfit with white heels and a maroon handbag to create an elegant look. Her son, standing behind her, reaches only her waist. He is wearing a short-sleeved shirt, shorts, and sandals. In the artwork, he is looking up at his mother with a pout as he tugs her hand back, resisting as if in a game of tug-of-war. There is a potted plant in the painting as well.

Mother & Child in an Art Exhibition is HSU Chen-Chou’s tribute to artist LIN Zhizhu. LIN Zhizhu’s award-winning 1943 artwork Nice Day depicts a mother and daughter buying groceries. The mother, wearing a modified Taiwan cheongsam and wooden clogs, holds a shopping tote in one hand while the other hand is tugged by her tired daughter, who is now refusing to walk. On the ground is a single Chinese hibiscus flower. The image of a mother struggling with her child is identical in both paintings, just in different directions.

HSU Chen-Chou’s artwork has the realistic, detailed, and exquisite features of gouache paintings, but the subject of his artwork expresses his observations of people and customs under changing times, demonstrating his concern for society.