Title
Autumn Field
Creator
Year/Period
2004
Region
Singapore, China
Object Type
Material
Technique
Dimension
Image size: 185.0 x 145.0 cm,
Image size: 191.5 x 117.0 cm
Image size: 191.5 x 117.0 cm
Accession No.
2023-01385
Collection of
Credit Line
Gift of the artist
Hong Zhu An is a renowned modern ink painter whose artistic career reached a breakthrough in its evolution after he migrated to Singapore in 1993. Before that, he spent a few years as an exile in Australia after leaving China in the late 1980s. Since the 1990s, Hong has become one of the most significant ink painters in the Singapore art scene. This painting reveals the stylistic evolution of the artist achieved during the early 2000s. The artist abandoned the well-planned composition and moved towards a less structured coloured field. Correspondingly, his linear strokes, which are crisscrossing, accumulating, extending, or discontinuing freely in the space, became sketchy and rustic to carry more spontaneous energy.
