Kan Ho - Artist Info

About Kan Ho

  • Biography

    Born in 1932 in Nanjing, Ho Kan's original name was Ho Xue-Kan (Changed in 1963). Ho Kan retreated to Taiwan with the government in 1949 and went studying fine art at Taipei Normal Collage, the next year he entered Li Zhong-Shen's studio.

    He was once the provincial government education counselor, promoting enlightenment of fine art for children after the war. He began his creation with Surrealism which assured his later explore of geometric abstraction under Li's instruction and due to his family back ground; calligraphy also plays an important role in his creation.

    Ho Kan left Taiwan for Italy in 1964. Impacts from Hard Edge and Spacism as well Pollack, Klein and Klee's embez...

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