THE CHINA MATE AT
CHINESE MODERN ART
The well-70
painting in Chirese
by Chai Hak in the Chi
outh
method of the Sung period to contemporary outlook.
shand
are rhythmic vitality, structure and brush work, modelling after
adaptation with
colouring, careful
Modelling And Composition
paniting
poet
In this connection the artist
spinst
that the best of respect. picture is mscribed by teral friends.
the artist's ability în Sometimes,
painted and left one's fellow a
as this de
bought
One would also find such dignity in Mr. Kam Nai Ming's Buggha” (52), but in his case the feeling is happier and freer by its splendid The virtue of Pau's school lies on
colour scheme. The style of this fine brush work and careful com- who will write a few lines or even artist is quite different from that position. The execution of Pan's words, expre
ng their apprecia- of the Pan school and is nearer to own work based as are also most tion of the picture of summarising the Northern School. At the same Gaher works, on a preconce ved idea what they each feel towards it. In time there is a decorative quality Western Art appears to be alike. but while that I have spoken of Ng Mai Hock's Horse in Heaven" pecularly his own There is some though the outlook of the East and Wong Shiu Keung's borders on the (56) such inscriptions, numbering affinity of style between his and
placing composition, following and copying. After all the affinity of these principles with thos
-West are widely different inasmuch
as their race is
In my last article I dealt at length
with the first principle-rhythmic vitality, which is characteristic of the Canton school under
By Luis Chan
poetical rather than literal
in feeling In both "Bany wight principles I will now endeavour to (53) and Landscape (1) such explain with the help of the work of tical feeling is divine the Hong Kong school, examples of would feel happy and which can be seen at the Exhibition in such environment of Chinese Art by Hong Kong Chin- ese artists held at the Chinese W.
the Ko brothers on Precincts of illustration, Pan's
A 38c Bonham Road, under the auspices of the Hong Kong Working Artists Guak.
Inscription
ed
that of Fu Hin Yau's (24) though they do not belong to the group
At this
explain the
perhaps I orght to
thern and the Southern Se difference is simply
no less than 11 in all, are overcro
the bottom and side of Northern school, like the scroll Such inscriptions, if school,
rstood fully, often enhance the school is revolation Indeed one appreciation of the picture by their seer confortable frank and witty comment. Of school-
course, such inscription being part- of the picture must necessarily be well placed, and the artist painting it must anticipate and reserve suffi- cient space for it, but the crowding of such inscriptions
Following And Copying
This is a type of Chinese painting In my previous article on the Ng Mui Hock's picture makes one which advocates following ΟΣ As I have mentioned before, the subject, I mentioned that inscrip- doubt whether they are pictorially copying the style of other old mas Hong Kong school, as mainly led by tion in a painting should bear the satisfactory. Indeed the leaving out ters fadeed the practice of Mr. Pho Shiu Yau, is remmed in same character as that of the paint of too wide an area in a picture art calls technique, being a revision of the ing itself, if drawn by the same simply for the sake of inscription various old and
THE
T
WORLD GOES BY By "ULYSSES"
was during lunch and they Reverie
were, they said, trying
prove by logarithms a solution with- out going into the third degree. I took their word for it, and order-};
would sometimes reveal the mraba ters work and the ity of the artist in completing a following and copying is picture satisfactorily by "carefully means by which placing and composition."
In Miss Tsang Yuen Wan's (one
[of Pau's pupils) – Tuners
Such commitm
sult in lesing
indulged
nese
of
aled or learnt. however, will re- dividuality, if sarily long Of Mai Hock's pictures No. 21 is painted after the perfect that any inscription on it is Ch'ing dynasty while No. 22 after style of Wong-Shek Kak fearly
superthous
picture entitled "Dary
however, the composition
So
Soft as pulsations of the blood In the series of pictures entitled are our footfalls in the dream city The Fairies by Pau Shin Yau we explore,
the four examış
3 combined stile Yong Taz Kan (Ynen dynasty) and Shek To (Ming dynasty). In his "Sun Yat Sen's Memorial the artist takes the role
ed Oxford sausage, and took mus-shadows here always-it is after-141-43), all such inscriptions are of Shum Stek Tin (Yuen dynasty).
noon, and sun draws graphic made on a separate piece of paper
the ground. Here no
mounted besides the picture. There
tard with it, while they covered the noises are at all, all actions as of is an anecdote behind the painting
back of the menu with lines and brackets and letters and figures and things. I got to the apple tart without being able to recall a quota- tion for which I groped. It by somebody with brains, spoke disrespectfully of
but who, be
said I could not
that was telling
a
of these scrolls which form child in a garden swing, as if this
entire picture The central sunshine were warm snow and time itself a loiterer. Such light is who had retired from the
depicts a Buddhist called
here that every blade of grass has
and is said to ha its patent of individuality, we kenworld and all her the diapered design of dragon-fly To prove this it is wings, and the least midge that of the dropping moves has centre stage as through on him.
it were a chewer of the cnd Numb at once with delight, and keenly aware of posity exalted power of vision, we see the flowers throw wide their lattices, anfthe cloud ships tack athwart the situa-blue, and the slow paces of holy feet through fields of asphodel. High and
up in space we know there hangs a mensilent bell, for which at every turn
of magic street
ears await. Here no espaliers obstruct the wandering soul, no doors shut în no its mysteries. Comes crash upon sense in pure mathematics If this mirrored pool of brooding |
you settle the Sino-Japane tion in that way,” I asked, they just looked at me like in a trance and went on calculating, neglecting their lunch. No doubt am very silly, but I can see
our
and b are cardinal numbers, they silence the reverberant thunder of
tell me, and if a plus 1 equals b a Voice
pins 1, then a equals b. Of course better be
Suppose
Painti
world is mere
that,
sion, I may re
the is realistic by propriate
of ser
two house has
ailt through two con-
dignity of the tinents are Thus it will be and sys
more
tanding
it does. That only mother and be after woning lock THE GLOUCESTER HOTEL
is aft
one,
the rapt
DINNER DANCE
&HIS ENSEMBLE.