Remembering Prof. Wen-Chen Chen 紀念陳文成教授
By 陳秀芳 Susan Hsiu-fang Liu, oil on canvas, 36” x 48”
This painting depicts the incident death of Professor Chen on July 2, 1981, and the artist’s hope for a free and independent Taiwan. In 1981, Dr. Chen, a Professor of statistics at Carnegie-Mellon University, grew up in Taiwan during the martial law period, visited his family in Taiwan with his wife and the one year old son, was taken away by the police because he had donated money to support a pro-democracy magazine. His body was found on the campus of National Taiwan University and this case has not been solved after 30+ years. A life of a Taiwanese academic elite was taken at age of thirty-one.
這幅畫描繪陳文成教授在戒嚴時期的犧牲及畫家對台灣獨立自由的祈望。1981年，陳文成博士，卡內基·梅隆大學統計系教授，回台灣探親。台灣警總以捐款給美麗島周報為由，於七月二日押走陳文成，隔天陳屍於他母校台大校園，三十多年後還沒找到兇手。ㄧ位台灣人的精英，在三十一歲時就被戒嚴時期的政府殺害。
Posted in 08/2018
