Title
Beo Crescent
Creator
Year/Period
1966
Object Type
Material
Technique
Dimension
Frame size: 64.7 x 77.3 x 2.0 cm,
Image size: 39.3 x 52.4 cm
Image size: 39.3 x 52.4 cm
Accession No.
2025-00084
Collection of
Credit Line
Gift of the artist. © Ong Kim Seng.
This work demonstrates his stylistic experimentation from the 1960s till the early 1970s. It captures the sense of place and identity that are rooted in the artist’s memories of the changing Singapore that he saw in the period, from farmlands and kampongs to HDB flats and the backlanes of Jalan Sultan. In this work, the decrepit state of the building is revealed by the bricks. This scene of the backlanes differ from his depiction of bustling streets in Chinatown. This work depicts the flurry of the development of the HDB estate, in the aftermath of the Bukit Ho Swee fire in 1961.
