汝人像 (Portrait of You)

In this painting, Tchang depicts two Malay boys, at a beach; they are bare-­chested, wearing white sarongs. One has his arm draped languidly across the shorter boy, and both are depicted with their heads turned from the viewer, looking instead into the distance. Tchang was an intellectual, a critic and editor, an educator as well as a social “leader” and pivotal member of key art agencies and communities such as Society of Chinese Artists. A critic and activist against the Japanese Occupation of China and subsequent Singapore, Tchang was killed in 1942 during the Sook Ching Operation.

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