Oil on Canvas
2017
33x23.5"
Oil on canvas
2017
33x23.5"
SOLD
Anthonie
chong (born 1971.Male.) formally educated in chinese independent school
where he gain his "HAN" cultural study including "HAN" word and chinese
calligraphy training. Later graduated from one of
the local art institute who his art teacher were mostly train under the
leading art institute on Singapore Nanyang Art Academic,
He been influence under the social realism from his painting teacher and
expose to western art history and very much later he choose to abandon
and further exploring the possibility of eastern surrealism in asian
painting.
And now he is working on the visual experimentation on cyber-generation
related theme with one of the ancient oriental art form to exploring the
figurative imaginary and contemporary inspirations. "Since year 2000, i
been using a kid figure that call e-monk to make my art, by appling the
eastern posturing technique in my art, i try to make my art able to
communicated with the majority of the communities by using the child
like figure to reminding some memories of their childhood playfull
moment to cheer up their adult living". In year 2008. Chong been
working on the "GAIA" series of painting, in this series of works, the
natural force as his major theme and inspiration. he divided the whole
series of "gaia" into five elemental themes. that was
"metal","wood","water","fire", and "earth". he offenly used the natural
object to design a surreal setting collaporated with the kid. And on
year 2010. he change the e-monk to @-monk. @-monk painting have three
major series: community series, gaia series and mechanism series.
note"
gaia---http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_(mythology)#In_Greek_mythology
Education:
Formal art
education at PERAK INSTITUTE OF ART(IPOH), MALAYSIAmajoring in graphic
art. graduated at year 1990.have few years of teaching experience in art
colleage, also in graphic firm and art deco production house and publishing as well.
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