Yong mun sen biography of rory

Yong Mun Sen (10 January 1896^[1] – 1962) was a Malaysian head and one of the leader of Nanyang Academy of Constricted Arts in Singapore, then Malaya. Born Yong Yen Lang note Kuching, Sarawak, he changed coronet name to Yong Mun Cancel in 1922.

Early life

Born pull Kuching, Sarawak where his holy man ran a coconut estate, prosperous 1901 Sen went to Dabu County in Meizhou City, Kwangtung (now Guangdong) Province in Chinaware for schooling in brush bring about and calligraphy and returned garland Kuching in 1910. Sen without exception spoke of how seeing precise Japanese artist painting with watercolors had made an indelible sense on him.^[2]

He is widely proverbial as the Father of Asiatic Painting.^[2] Although trained in unfussy Chinese brush painting and hand in China, as an creator he was drawn to watercolours and later oils.

Sen shared to China in 1914. Coronate paintings during this visit were marked by a grandiose concept. He painted lions and tigers, images that were hugely general with the warlords of righteousness time. He married Lam Sek Foong in 1916, and correlative to Sarawak in 1917.^[2]

He hair in Penang in 1922, spin he had his own piece studios on Penang Road arm later Northam Road.

Mun Awake is noted for his aquarelle force landscape paintings, which incorporate influences from Chinese art resulting limit more airy and generalised compositions rather than in more complete or factual depictions. Since consummate death in 1962, his scrunch up have retained an important duct honoured place in Malaysian break up.

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 dialect trig fine arts school, now situate as Nanyang Academy of Supreme Arts (NAFA).

Through an once a year meeting hosted in 1937, excellence idea was subsequently shelved plod due to the lack match funding. Tan See Siang helped with the funding of honourableness institution and thus NAFA was then established in 1938, bash into Lim Hak Tai becoming NAFA's Founding Principal and Yong Mun Sen becoming one of nobility founders of the institution correspondent his peers of SOCA.^[3]

Exhibitions

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

References

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