Title
Inner Beauty
Creator
Year/Period
1954
Object Type
Technique
Dimension
Frame size: 115.0 x 95.5 x 4.5 cm,
Image size: 78.3 x 58.2 cm
Image size: 78.3 x 58.2 cm
Accession No.
2024-00334
Collection of
Inner Beauty is a critique of the excesses of vanity with the woman’s reflection in the mirror being a skeleton. In 1954, Lim proposed that “artists should understand trends in World Art, depict subject matter that displays social awareness, and create new art with ‘Nanyang feng.”This work was made during the anti-yellow culture movement in the 1954 and reflects Lim Hak Tai’s concern with the social realities of the time, in line with one of his principles of Nanyang art (1955) — reflection of the needs of the peoples of the Federation of Malaya and Singapore.
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