Twelve modern ladies

Delicate, careful, glamorous, and complex painting strokes are the style of Nai-Yuan Chang. The inspiration of her series of “Twelve modern ladies” came from the Chinese Classical Novel of “Hong Lou Meng (Dreams of the Red Mansion)”. In the classical novel, there are twelve female characters representing the different types of women who stay in the mansion. She uses dramatic clothing and detailed composition to emphasize the picture's tension and to create the images of the modern ladies. The artist, as a female herself, wants to express the ideas of modern feminism: Through the relief of the thousands years burden of the traditional society's oppression, displays the beauty of the female. Contents include Daughter, Female Power, Female Writing, Female Voice, Female Love, Feminine Rights, etc. The pictures of the twelve modern ladies show six positive images and six negative images: Negative – Images of longing to break free Positive – Images showing the confidence after flying high There is a "thread" on all the paintings which represents "confinement" in the negative images, but "self control" in the positive images.