Lee Shi-chi
{{Short description|Taiwanese artist (1938–2019)}}
Lee Shi-chi ({{zh|t=李錫奇|p=Lǐ Xīqí}}; 1938–2019) was a Taiwanese artist.
Life
Lee Shi-chi was born in Kinmen in 1938.{{cite news |title=LEE SHI-CHI |url=https://www.ifineart.net/lee-shichi |publisher=Illuminati Fine Art}} His early years were marked by war and death, and he later described his childhood as a lottery.{{cite news |last1=Quartly |first1=Jules |title='The Gibraltar of Asia' and a 'park in the ocean' |url=http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2004/09/30/2003205028 |accessdate=1 June 2020 |work=Taipei Times |date=30 September 2004}} The Battle of Guningtou took place when he was in fourth grade, and his grandmother and elder sister were killed in 1953, during Lee's second year at {{ill|National Kinmen Senior High School|zh|國立金門高級中學}}. Lee Shi-chi later met Lee Chao-lan, who nurtured his interest in art,{{cite news |title=國家文藝獎第16屆獲獎藝術家 李錫奇 Lee Shi-chi |url=https://www.ncafroc.org.tw/artist_detail.html?id=1278 |publisher=National Culture and Arts Foundation |language=zh}} and made it possible for him to enroll at the Department of Arts within Provincial Taipei Normal College between 1955 and 1958.{{cite news |title=李錫奇 |url=http://www.artist-magazine.com/product_d.php?lang=tw&tb=6&id=951 |accessdate=1 June 2020 |work=Artist Magazine |language=zh}} Lee remained in Taipei County, teaching at Hsinchuang Elementary School, as the Second Taiwan Strait Crisis had broken out in Kinmen.
Lee cofounded the Modern Print Society in 1958, alongside {{ill|Yuyu Yang|zh|楊英風}}, Chen Ting-shih and Chiang Han-tong.{{cite news |last1=Lee |first1=Vico |title=Making a puzzle out of pictures |url=https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2003/01/05/0000189894 |accessdate=1 June 2020 |work=Taipei Times |date=5 January 2003}} In 1963, Lee joined the Eastern Art Association, an avant-garde artists' collective.{{cite news |last1=Chung |first1=Oscar |title=Beauty in Diversity |url=https://taiwantoday.tw/news.php?post=168600&unit=20,35 |accessdate=1 June 2020 |work=Taiwan Today |date=1 January 2020}} He moved from print artwork to painting with airbrushes throughout the 1970s.{{cite news |last1=Hung |first1=Chien-Lun |last2=Chi |first2=Jo-yao |title=Artist, former national policy advisor dies aged 81 |url=https://focustaiwan.tw/culture/201903230006 |accessdate=1 June 2020 |agency=Central News Agency |date=23 March 2019}} Lee opened his first art gallery in 1978, and later operated two more through 1990.{{cite news |title=Painter {{!}} Lee Shi-chi |url=https://www.moc.gov.tw/en/information_228_97678.html |accessdate=1 June 2020 |agency=Ministry of Culture |date=25 March 2019}} Considered one of the first installation artists in Taiwan, Lee has also worked in mixed media.{{cite news |last1=Carter |first1=Blake |title=Highlights of the Asian Art Biennial |url=http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2009/11/04/2003457555 |accessdate=1 June 2020 |work=Taipei Times |date=3 November 2009}} [http://www.taipeitimes.com/images/2009/11/04/TT-981104-P15-IB.pdf Alternative link] His abstract paintings have been featured in many exhibitions.{{cite news |title=Exhibitions |url=https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2011/04/27/2003501784 |accessdate=1 June 2020 |work=Taipei Times |date=27 April 2011}}{{cite news |last1=Cheung |first1=Sheryl |title=Art exhibition listings |url=http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2019/08/09/2003720170 |accessdate=1 June 2020 |work=Taipei Times |date=9 August 2019}} During his early career, Lee was exposed to Western art styles, and those influences remained in his work alongside East Asian art styles, such as Chinese calligraphy.{{cite news |last1=Buchan |first1=Noah |title=Building blocks |url=http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2013/02/24/2003555562 |accessdate=1 June 2020 |work=Taipei Times |date=24 February 2013}}{{cite news |title=Painter {{!}} Lee Shi-chi |url=https://www.moc.gov.tw/en/information_259_77559.html |accessdate=1 June 2020 |agency=Ministry of Culture |date=6 May 2016}} He was a recipient of the {{ill|National Award for Arts|zh|國家文藝獎}} in 2012 and served as a national policy adviser during Ma Ying-jeou's presidential administration.{{cite news |title=Posthumous presidential citation sought for artist Lee Shi-chi |url=https://www.moc.gov.tw/en/information_196_97683.html |accessdate=1 June 2020 |agency=Ministry of Culture |date=23 March 2019}}{{cite news |title=Top Taiwanese artist dies |url=https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2019/03/24/2003712089 |accessdate=1 June 2020 |work=Taipei Times |date=24 March 2019}}
He sought medical treatment for a brain hemorrhage on 19 March 2019 and died at Taipei Medical University Hospital on 22 March 2019, aged 81.{{cite news |last1=李 |first1=怡芸 |title=藝術家李錫奇辭世 |url=https://www.chinatimes.com/realtimenews/20190323000074-260405 |accessdate=1 June 2020 |work=China Times |date=23 March 2020 |language=zh}}{{cite news |last1=李 |first1=怡芸 |title=藝術家李錫奇辭世 |url=https://www.chinatimes.com/newspapers/20190324000562-260115 |accessdate=1 June 2020 |work=China Times |date=24 March 2019 |language=zh}}
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Category:20th-century male artists
Category:20th-century Taiwanese painters
Category:National Taipei University of Education alumni
Category:People from Kinmen County
Category:Taiwanese schoolteachers