Lee Shi-chi (; 1938–2019) was a Taiwanese artist.

Life

Lee Shi-chi was born in

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in 1938. His early years were marked by war and death, and he later described his childhood as a lottery. The

Battle of Guningtou The Battle of Kinmen ( zh, t=金門戰役), also known as the Battle of Kuningtou ( zh, t=古寧頭之役) or the Battle of Guningtou, was fought in October 1949 on the island of Kinmen (Quemoy), located in the Taiwan Strait, during the final ...

took place when he was in fourth grade, and his grandmother and elder sister were killed in 1953, during Lee's second year at . Lee Shi-chi later met Lee Chao-lan, who nurtured his interest in art, and made it possible for him to enroll at the Department of Arts within Provincial Taipei Normal College between 1955 and 1958. Lee remained in Taipei County, teaching at Hsinchuang Elementary School, as the

Second Taiwan Strait Crisis The Second Taiwan Strait Crisis, also known as the 1958 Taiwan Strait Crisis, was a conflict between the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Taiwan, Republic of China (ROC). The PRC shelled the islands of Kinmen (Quemoy) and the Matsu Is ...

had broken out in Kinmen. Lee cofounded the Modern Print Society in 1958, alongside , Chen Ting-shih and Chiang Han-tong. In 1963, Lee joined the Eastern Art Association, an avant-garde artists' collective. He moved from print artwork to painting with airbrushes throughout the 1970s. Lee opened his first art gallery in 1978, and later operated two more through 1990. Considered one of the first installation artists in Taiwan, Lee has also worked in mixed media.Alternative link
/ref> His abstract paintings have been featured in many exhibitions. 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. He was a recipient of the in 2012 and served as a national policy adviser during

Ma Ying-jeou Ma Ying-jeou ( zh, t=馬英九; pinyin: ''Mǎ Yīngjiǔ''; ; born 13 July 1950) is a Taiwanese politician, lawyer, and legal scholar who served as the sixth president of the Republic of China from 2008 to 2016. A member of the Kuomintang (KMT ...

's presidential administration. He sought medical treatment for a brain hemorrhage on 19 March 2019 and died at

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on 22 March 2019, aged 81.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lee, Shi-chi 1938 births 2019 deaths 20th-century male artists 20th-century Taiwanese painters Taiwanese abstract painters Male painters National Taipei University of Education alumni People from Kinmen County Taiwanese schoolteachers 20th-century Taiwanese educators Senior advisors to President Ma Ying-jeou