Tsang Kai-hong
dal 27/4/2007 al 2/6/2007
Segnalato da
University Museum and Art Gallery - UMAG
27/4/2007
Tsang Kai-hong
University Museum and Art Gallery - UMAG, Hong Kong
The exhibition features his recent sketches of nudes, as well as earlier drawings and engravings. Tsang advocates the study of the human figure through life drawing, a Western art tradition that was introduced to China relatively recently in the early Republican period.
Sketches of Nudes
The University Museum and Art Gallery of The University of Hong Kong is
delighted to present an exhibition of drawings from life by the Hong
Kong-born artist Tsang Kai-hong. The exhibition features his recent sketches
of nudes, as well as earlier drawings and engravings.
Tsang advocates the study of the human figure through life drawing, a
Western art tradition that was introduced to China relatively recently in
the early Republican period. His drawing skills were originally founded on
the careful attention to modelling, volume and texture of the Soviet
socialist realistic manner of the 1950s. He later assimilated German
expressionistic style, and a geometrical approach, with traditional drawing
and Chinese painting techniques. This exhibition includes Tsang¡'s works of
the 1960s to 1980s, tracing the evolution of his drawing from his early
experiments in technique to an expressionistic approach.
Tsang's recent sketches of nudes are characterized by rhythmic line and
subjective creativity, rendering in his figures the element of resonance in
the language of Chinese painting. The art of the nude reflects not the
reality of a model, but the perception of the body's beauty expressed by the
artist. Tsang¡'s images of ordinary people always display a universal sense
of beauty that recalls the classical tradition on which his skills and ideal
of beauty are based.
Tsang also excels in printmaking, and taught drawing and copperplate
printing at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts between 1958 and 1987. His
prints have been exhibited in China and overseas. He has lived in Hong Kong
since 1987.
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