Title
Not titled (Flowers)
Creator
Year/Period
c. 1930s
Region
Singapore
Object Type
Material
Technique
Dimension
Frame size: 106.6 x 90.0 x 3.6 cm,
Image size: 78.0 x 62.5 cm
Image size: 78.0 x 62.5 cm
Accession No.
2022-00942
Collection of
Credit Line
Gift of Chang Si Fun (Shewin Chang), daughter of the artist
Tchang has been regarded as the artistic forerunner and proponent of "Nanyang" art, being one of the earliest artists to incorporate local subject matters into his artworks. Not titled (Flowers) is a representation of the artist's ouevre during the 1930s.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 subsequently Singapore, Tchang was killed in 1942 during the Sook Ching Operation.
