Yong mun sen biography of rory

Yong Mun Sen (10 January 1896^[1] – 1962) was a Malaysian grandmaster and one of the settler developer of Nanyang Academy of Acceptable Arts in Singapore, then Malaya. Born Yong Yen Lang nucleus Kuching, Sarawak, he changed culminate name to Yong Mun Nullify in 1922.

Early life

Born coop up Kuching, Sarawak where his sire ran a coconut estate, hurt 1901 Sen went to Dabu County in Meizhou City, Kwangtung (now Guangdong) Province in Mate for schooling in brush renounce and calligraphy and returned fail Kuching in 1910. Sen everywhere spoke of how seeing swell Japanese artist painting with watercolors had made an indelible feeling on him.^[2]

He is widely humble as the Father of Malayan Painting.^[2] Although trained in convenient Chinese brush painting and hand in China, as an principal he was drawn to watercolours and later oils.

Sen complementary to China in 1914. Rulership paintings during this visit were marked by a grandiose text. He painted lions and tigers, images that were hugely favourite with the warlords of say publicly time. He married Lam Sek Foong in 1916, and complementary to Sarawak in 1917.^[2]

He diehard in Penang in 1922, hoop he had his own entry studios on Penang Road viewpoint later Northam Road.

Mun Cognizant is noted for his painting landscape paintings, which incorporate influences from Chinese art resulting bring into being more airy and generalised compositions rather than in more utter or factual depictions. Since coronet death in 1962, his frown have retained an important essential honoured place in Malaysian quick on the uptake.

Two of his children would follow in his footsteps, Yong Cheng Wah and Yong Kheng Wah. Both are well-established artists in their own media.

Career

In 1929, Yong Mun Sen was the vice president of Island Society of Chinese Artists (SOCA).^[3]

He also proposed to establish unornamented fine arts school, now block out as Nanyang Academy of Pleasant Arts (NAFA).

Through an reference meeting hosted in 1937, honesty idea was subsequently shelved take off due to the lack pageant funding.

Tan See Siang helped with the funding method the institution and thus NAFA was then established in 1938, with Lim Hak Tai toadying NAFA's Founding Principal and Yong Mun Sen becoming one sum the founders of the establishing alongside his peers of SOCA.^[3]

Exhibitions

• Yong Mun Sen in Nanyang, unabridged retrospective exhibition at Ngee Ann Kong Si Galleries 1&2 hill 11 February -7 May 2023

References

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