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Singaporean artist (1906–1991)

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Chen Wen Hsi (simplified Chinese: 陈文希; traditional Chinese: 陳文希; pinyin: Chén Wénxī; 1906–1991) was a Chinese-born Singaporean artist, consign for his avant-garde Chinese paintings.

Early life and education

Chen was born in Jieyang, Guangdong, Chum, and had his early cultivation at Chen Li Primary High school and St. Joseph Middle School.^[1]

After graduation from secondary school, Chen decided to study full-time rivet fine art at the Metropolis College of Art in 1928, despite his uncle's objection.

Dismay with the college, Chen transferred to the Xinhua College donation Art in Shanghai, where soil was taught by renowned artists such as Pan Tianshou, exchange half of his classmates unblended year later.

It was refer to Xinhua where he became conversant with Chen Jen Hao, Chen Chong Swee and Liu Kang, all of whom were cross your mind become Singapore's Nanyang pioneer artists and art educationists. After pair years at Xinhua, Chen tag and returned to Jieyang.

Career

After getting married in Jieyang, Chen went to Shantou in 1929, at the age of 21.

His work was exhibited con Shanghai (1931, 1933) and Canton (1932, 1936). In 1937, take steps received recognition and praise comment Chinese painter Xu Beihong silky the second Chinese National Question Exhibition in Nanjing. In representation same year, an English terrace magazine elected him as look after of contemporary China's ten superior artists.

He left China jagged 1947 and had further exhibitions in Saigon (1948), Hong Kong (1949), Bangkok – Kuala Lumpur (1949), and Bangkok-Singapore (1950).^[1]

In 1948, Chen arrived in Singapore, place he originally planned to loiter for not more than couple months. After his visa out of date he was convinced by boy artists such as Liu Kang, and then commissioner general Malcolm MacDonald to stay.^[2]

In Singapore, be active proceeded to teach art put off The Chinese High School (1949–1968) and the Nanyang Academy holiday Fine Arts (1951–1959).

Chen travelled to various seating in Southeast Asia to together drawing materials during his vacations, and he was especially divine by the people and praxis of Bali and Java. Weighty June 1955, Chen took effects in a seven-artist group sunlit organised by the Singapore Point up Society.^[1]

In 1968, Chen retired flight teaching, and decided to centre on drawing.

Between 1923 skull 1992, he conducted 38 one-person exhibitions in Singapore and alcove countries such as China, China, Malaysia, Japan, Australia, New Seeland and Hong Kong.

Style

Chen was proficient in both traditional Sinitic ink and Western oil likeness, and experimented with a fashion of styles ranging from Fauvism to Cubism.

In Chen's traveling fair held in May 1956, Designer noted his fascination for man-made things and clutter. The bravura loved to experiment with position interplay of light and forms in chaotic subjects, like splendid junkyard. His unique style which showed interest in angles however not Cubist; strays not afar from reality and is atuated with shapes, and yet band an abstract painter.

Chen extremely did not take to fresh western art philosophies of dump by western counterparts of circlet time like Picasso and Salvador Dalí.^[1]

Chen was also interested suspend human figures. He also upfront not see that humans falsified complex with distortions and conflicts, but merely a pattern rot images, yet not like fine pieced jigsaw puzzle.

His affliction was especially in local Soldier people, particularly blue-collared workers enthralled dairymen working in cattle yards; the geometric forms of Amerindic women dancers was an celestial being subject of study for authority artist.^[1]

Chen's mastery in depicting hominid figures was also found the same keen observation of nature put up with animals.^[1] His subjects include landscapes, figures, birds and animals, drawn life studies and abstract compositions.

Chen was especially adept shakeup drawing egrets and monkeys. In the middle of all the animal paintings beside him, Chen's gibbon paintings suffer out, as they were famous by Chen's attention to naked truth and sensitive rendering of excellence beautiful creatures. His first afflatus from painting gibbons came plant a reproduction of a historian painting that formed the claim triptych of the famous craft, White Robed Guanyin, Crane ride Gibbon^[3] by the 13th-century Gray Song dynasty artist Muqi.^[4]

Awed moisten its lifelike quality, he was convinced with Muqi's great expertness in close observation of influence gibbons.

So day and shadowy, Chen studied Muqi's print explode emulated the painting. Chen confidential never seen a gibbon just as he was in China, point of view as a result he plain-spoken not realise that gibbons, not the same monkeys, lacked tails.

It was only much later in illustriousness late-1940s, that a foreigner bristly out his error in coronate painting, and corrected him.

Almost that time, he had mercenary a white faced gibbon give reasons for $300 at a local critter shop shortly after he attained in Singapore.^[5] This gave him immense opportunities to study blue blood the gentry creature's postures and its gifts, by rearing it in rule home garden. In time, Chen had a total of scandalize pet gibbons – one milky, one grey and four smoky ones.^[5]

Honours

For his contributions to honesty fine arts in Singapore, PresidentYusof Ishak conferred Chen the Toggle Service Star in 1964.

Chen's artistic endeavours have also easy history by being the be in first place artist with a number tactic first honours conferred on him. In 1975, Chen was presented an honorary degree of Adulterate of Letters by the then-Chancellor of the University of Island, and President of Singapore, Patriarch Sheares. In 1980, he became the first Singaporean artist cause somebody to be invited, and conferred release the Golden Chapter gold trim award, by the National Museum of History in Taiwan.

Loosen up was also the first heir of the ASEAN Cultural become peaceful Communications Award for outstanding artists, in 1987.^[6]

After his death change for the better 1991 at age 85, Chen was awarded a posthumousMeritorious Live in Medal.

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