Title
Picking
Creator
Year/Period
1955
Region
Singapore
Object Type
Material
Dimension
Image size: 100 x 94.5 cm,
Frame size: 121.5 x 116.5 x 6 cm
Frame size: 121.5 x 116.5 x 6 cm
Accession No.
2014-01329
Collection of
Credit Line
This work has been collectively adopted by supporters.
Tay Kok Wee was one of the founding members of the Equator Art Society (EAS), which was a leading group of the left-wing art movement in Singapore during the 1950s and 1960s."Picking" is one of the significant works, representing the local social realist art movement. Ideologically influenced by the socialism, the work reflects hardship suffered by the working class under the British colonial power. In terms of stylistics, the work reveals influences from the European realist tradition as well as Russian and Chinese social realist art.
