Self-portrait Taiwan
Han Hsiang-ning is a Taiwanese-American artist. Han has participated in many prominent museum exhibitions. He often uses spray painting and paints photo-realistic street scenes. In 1961, he joined the "Fifth Moon Group". He began abstract form oil painting, and his works first appeared in the magazine Pen Review. In 1963 he began working with roller and stencils on rice paper, still abstract, emphasizing form and space structure. In 1969 he began spray painting works using acrylic paint on canvas, created the "Invisible Image" series. In 1971, in the process of spray gun painting, found how to create different combinations of sprayed color dots, a form of pointillism. In 1971 he continued the spray gun technique, but began using New York city-scenes as a subject and his camera as sketching tool. In 1972 he launched studies on industrial scenes with vivid images. He completed his first self-portrait in 1981. In 1983 he began using brushes to paint watercolor and ink on paper. His subjects being street crowds and bird's eye views of intersections of New York streets.