Hung Jui-lin
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Hung Jui-lin (Âng Sūi-lîn, May 7, 1912 - December 3, 1996) was a Taiwanese artist from Taipei's Dadaocheng district. He is often referred to as the "Miner Painter" and is also hailed for bringing forth a "Radiance from the Depths of the Earth."
Hung Jui-lin was born in Shiguan Lane (now Liangzhou Street)[1] in Dadaocheng, Taipei in 1912. His father, Hong Hetin, was knowledgeable in Chinese studies and skilled in painting plum blossoms. He worked as a general manager at the Yuanlong Tea Company in 1923, and played a significant role in shaping Hung's artistic upbringing.[1]
In 1920, Hung enrolled in the Daojiang Private Charity School school and was inspired by the school's principal Inagaki Tobei’s humanitarian spirit. This experience fueled Hung's later interest in caring for the underprivileged, impoverished, and laboring classes. During his time at the school, his teacher Wu Qinghai discovered Hung 's talent for art and ordered art magazines from Japan for him to read, broadening his artistic horizons and his concern for the general public.[1]
In 1927, Hung entered the Western Painting Study Group (later renamed Taiwan Painting Research Institute)[2] and was guided by Kinichiro Ishikawa.[3] During his time at the institute, Hung met Ni Chiang-huai, Chen Zhiqi, and others. In 1930, Hung went to Japan to study abroad.
In 1930, Hong Rui-lin arrived in Japan and entered the Kawabata Painting School and Honcho Painting Research Institute to study art. The following year, he was admitted to the Western Painting Department of the Imperial Art School (now Musashino Art University).[4] In the midst of the impact of European and American art movements, the art world in Japan at that time was also influenced by the "proletarian art" trend. Under the influence of various streams of thought, Hong Jui-lin's creative content started to focus even more on the daily lives of workers, farmers, and small-town residents.