"Hung-Tung and his work..."

Born in a village of poor fisherfolk and growing up illiterate, Hung Tung worked as officiant in a Taoist temple while doing odd jobs to maintain his family. He did not start painting until 1969 when he was 50. But his standing as a non-traditional artist together with the detailed and fantasmagoric nature of his art gave rise in the 70s to a lively debate in Taiwan between admirers and detractors of his work, in a country in which naive art and art brut had until then been quite unknown concepts.