Wong Keen, a Singapore abstract expressionist

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Wong Keen’s critically acclaimed Flesh Series provides audience a glimpse into the artist’s unique and ever-evolving visual language, which encompasses oil, ink, acrylic, collage and mixed media works. Wong Keen is about the earliest artist in Singapore to paint in the Wong Keen Expressionist style.

He is one very important 2nd generation artist. Unfortunately, there exist very few scholarly texts that discuss about his life or his : Ho Sou Ping.

Wong Keen is about the earliest artist in Singapore to paint in the Abstract Expressionist style. He is one very important 2nd generation artist. Unfortunately, there exist very few scholarly texts that discuss about his life or his art.

Get this from a library. Wong Keen, a Singapore abstract expressionist: an exhibition of donated works by Mr. and Mrs. Koh Seow Chuan, 9 March AprilSingapore Art Museum. [Keen Wong; Roy Moyer; Tommy T B Koh; Kian Chow Kwok; Koh Seow Chuan.; Ong Zhen Min.; Singapore Art Museum.].

Wong Keen is about the earliest artist in Singapore to paint in the Abstract Expressionist style. He is one very important 2nd generation artist. Unfortunately, there exist very few scholarly texts that discuss about his life or his art. This thesis will serve as an introduction to Wong Keen as an artist, investigate his artistic viewpoints and critically analyze his works.

Wong Keen is a Singaporean modern and contemporary artist, who held his first solo exhibition in Singapore at the young age of Currently, Wong's paintings have been exhibited internationally. Among his most known works are "Lotus Pond" and "Formation Series XLVIII".

Wong Keen (b. Singapore–)1 is a painter largely considered to be the first Singapore artist working in the a Singapore abstract expressionist book style2 and known for his frequent utilisation of a controlled “drip and flow” painting technique.3 His works incorporate both American abstract expressionism and traditional Chinese calligraphy, while frequently employing Asian symbolism Works by Wong Keen.

On the wall: A copy of Wong Keen's work, Sunday at Noon Singapore, WONG KEEN: A Singapore Abstract Expressionist An exhibition of donated works by Mr &. During his time at the Art Students League of New York, Wong Keen studied under influential Abstract Expressionist artists such as Morris Kantor, Sidney Gross, Vaclav Vytlacil and Hans Hoffman, gaining first-hand insights into the Colour-field theory (an essential strand in Abstract Expressionism), which emphasizes strategic placements of colours and their effective dramatization to achieve form and.

Artist Wong Keen marches to his own drumbeat 1 of 2 Painter Wong Keen’s combination of abstraction with Eastern influences is seen in his art, from nudes (above) to raw meat in Flesh III which, at. Wong Keen is about the earliest artist in Singapore to paint in the Abstract Wong Keen style. He is one very important 2nd generation artist.

Unfortunately, there exist very few scholarly texts that discuss about his life or his art. This thesis will serve as an introduction to Wong Keen as. Born in in Singapore, New York/Singapore-based artist Wong Keen’s art training began under Liu Kang and advanced under Chen Wen Hsi’s mentoring.

In Wong left to study at The Art Students League, New York, and in received the League’s prestigious Edward G. McDowell Travelling Scholarship to travel and study in Europe. During the s, Wong was drawn to Abstract. Having spent over 50 years in America, Wong Keen’s outstanding oeuvre, which encompasses oil, ink, acrylic and collage since the s to Wong Keen present, is a powerful embodiment of the elegant expressivity of Chinese ink wash aesthetics and the Western inventive approach toward form and colour.

Local artist Wong Keen says there is no such thing as purely original and creative art. Read more at Singapore artists who took a. Goh later joined fellow artist Wong Keen in the United States.

Along with some other Singaporeans, they studied at the Arts Students League of New York and worked as busboys or restaurant staff to cover their expenses. This was the s, when expressionism was. Wong Keen: After Thirty-Five Years in New York. Wong Keen was born in Singapore in The artist grew up in Singapore, where Chen Wen Hsi was his mentor.

Wong then moved to New York before eventually returning to Singapore. Exposed to both Eastern and Western philosophies, he brings together Chinese and Abstract Expressionist traditions in his art. : Wong Keen: Calligraphic Interactions: Calligraphic Interactions () by Sou Ping, Ho and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at.

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He is one very important 2nd generation artist. Unfortunately, there exist very few scholarly texts that discuss about his life or his art. This thesis will serve as an introduction to Wong Keen as an artist, investigate his artistic viewpoints and critically analyze his works.

Besides a short. Buy Wong Keen: Calligraphic Interactions: Calligraphic Interactions by Sou Ping, Ho (ISBN: ) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. "STILL ALIVE, STILL KICKING" is how Wong Keen replies to the standard greeting of "How do you do?" At 76, the veteran painter has lived a storied life that includes studying under Singapore art pioneers Liu Kang and Chen Wen Hsi when he was a boy, and then moving to New York at the tail end of the Abstract Expressionist movement led by Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and.

Galerie Belvedere will present Oct the “Grand Masters of Art Exhibition” at the ION Art Gallery, featuring important paintings by Singapore’s first-generation artists - Lee Man Fong, Chen Wen Hsi, Cheong Soo Pieng - along with works by abstract expressionist artist Wong Keen, now based in New York, and watercolor maestro Ong King Sen.

Born in in Singapore, New York/Singapore-based artist Wong Keen’s art training began under Liu Kang and advanced under Chen Wen Hsi’s mentoring. In Wong left to study at The Art Students League, New York, and in received the League’s prestigious Edward G. McDowell Travelling Scholarship to travel and study in Europe.

During the s Wong worked hard to establish his. Abstract expressionism is a wide- ranging art movement that evolved in America after World War II, combining emotional intensity and non-figurative subjects. Wong says: "I. Wong Keen by Ho Sou Ping Book Resume: Wong Keen is about the earliest artist in Singapore to paint in the Abstract Expressionist style.

He is one very important 2nd generation artist. artcommune gallery and The Culture Story are pleased to announce the upcoming solo exhibition by Wong Keen, titled ‘Flesh Matters’. This is the first major exhibition to be held at Artspace.

Wong Keen: Calligraphic Interactions: Calligraphic Interactions: Sou Ping, Ho: Books - or: Ho Sou Ping. Also on display: paintings by Chen Wen Hsi (b), known for his avant-garde style inspired by Fauvism and Cubism; Wong Keen (b), whom the Singapore Art Museum commemorated in with an exhibition titled A Singapore Abstract Expressionist; and Sun Yee (b – ), who exhibited at the Salon des Beaux Arts in Paris in The exhibition showcased thirteen abstract expressionist artists from Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, China and the Philippines.

Embedded within each work, is first and foremost the stories of individuals. The artists are mostly in their senior years of practice and are known for their mixed media and abstract.

Buy [(Wong Keen: Calligraphic Interactions)] [By (author) Ho Sou Ping] published on (December, ) by Ho Sou Ping (ISBN:) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low Author: Ho Sou Ping. The book and images, kept intact after his death and now held for a large part in the Musée de l'Art Brut, -- To June "Wong Keen: A Singapore Abstract Expressionist.".

He donated 63 artworks by Wong Keen, a Singapore Abstract Expressionist, worth S$ million to the Singapore Art Museum in In he donated 2, items of mainly late 19th and early 20th century rare documents of the Straits Settlements and Singapore.

Goh Beng Kwan (b. 26 DecemberMedan, Sumatra, Indonesia–) 1 is a pioneer Singapore modern artist known for his distinctive approach to abstraction and collage, as seen from his artworks. 2 For his contributions to the local art scene, Goh was awarded the Cultural Medallion for Visual Arts in 3Early life Goh Beng Kwan was born the fourth in a family of six children.

Women of Abstract Expressionism is a long-overdue survey. Lavishly illustrated with full-color plates emphasizing the expressive freedom of direct gesture and process at the core of the movement, this book features biographies of more than forty.

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Artist Keen Wong created this acrylic on museum board in It is signed, lower left. Inthe Singapore Art Museum celebrated Wong Keen’s masterful repertoire with a solo exhibition. Wong Keen’s work is held in a number of private and public collections, including The National Museum of China, Minnesota State University Art Museum, Albright Knox Art Gallery, New York, Singapore Art.

WONG KEEN: A Singapore Abstract Expressionist An exhibition of donated works by Mr & Mrs Koh Seow Chuan 9 March – 29 April Venue: Singapore Art Museum ** I was at the Singapore Art Museum some time ago and I managed to have the time to view works by the artist, Wong Keen.

We also meet veteran artist Wong Keen, Singapore's first abstract expressionist who studied under the late greats such as Liu Kang and Chen Wen Hsi. The year-old shares details of his colourful life and why his latest obsession is with red, bloody meat from the butcher shop.

A former sailor who represented Singapore in the Olympics, Charles Lim completed his degree Fine Art at Central Saint Martins in London. Lim also co-founded the seminal net-art collective Currently exhibiting at Wei-Ling Gallery in an exhibition entitled ‘Paralogical Machines: When Images Meet Us in Space and Time’, the show looks at paintings and photographs as if we.

Book 5: Made in Singapore by Tay Kay Chin The protagonist in Made in Singapore is Salim Javed, who is from Bangladesh and has worked in Singapore since Wong Keen (b) is an artist. Books and Literature. Authors, Poets, and Playwrights. Famous People.

Keen Wong has written: 'Wong Keen, a Singapore abstract expressionist' What has the author Daniel M Daniel written?As a passionate art educator he had greatly influenced many of Singapore’s Second Generation artists. National Gallery Singapore has his works in its permanent collection.

Wong Keen (b) is an artist who spans two worlds and two philosophies – Asian tradition and American individualism. The synthesis of Eastern and Western art makes his.Abstract expressionism is a post–World War II art movement in American painting, developed in New York in the s.

It was the first specifically American movement to achieve international influence and put New York City at the center of the western art world, a role formerly filled by gh the term "abstract expressionism" was first applied to American art in by the art Missing: Singapore.