Over 100 young artists have received awards at Taiwan's 73rd National Student Art Competition. With over 50,000 submissions, many of the prize-winning entries tackled salient social issues including fraud, population crises and global conflicts.
Category
🗞
NewsTranscript
00:00Looking down at a major fraud operation in Cambodia, the subject in this painting could become another victim of an ongoing crisis unfolding across Asia.
00:10It's a solemn depiction of a dark truth by high school student Lin Guxun,
00:15who used her entry into the 73rd National Student Art Competition to highlight a salient issue in Taiwan.
00:30Lin's work earned her first place in the print category,
00:44one of over 100 award-winning pieces in this year's competition, which attracted over 50,000 entries.
00:51Many of the young artists used the competition as an opportunity to comment on a range of current affairs issues,
00:58from population crises to the advent of AI technology, some looking as far as Ukraine for inspiration for their work.
01:07The competition invites students from elementary school all the way up to university,
01:21awarding young talent across a range of categories, including calligraphy, comics and graphic design.
01:28It celebrates a new generation of artists who, despite their age, are using their creativity to tackle some of the world's most mature matters.
01:37Devon Tai and Rhys Ayres for Taiwan Plus.