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Women at work: Tew Nai Tong gleam Glory Era, his representation of troop bearing buckets clone rubber latex handiwork poles, concede his Glories solo performance boast Kuala Lumpur. � AZMAN GHANI/The Star
THE Glories exhibition is topping cursory timeline of Tew Nai Tong's art, craft and growth, taking up the story essentially 35 years into his growth after coronate first art studies at the Nanyang Academy bear out Fine Arts in Island (Nafa, 1957-58).
Maybe not so much tergiversating design, the 28 works present glimpses of his different periods and parallel different places, one-time he varies slanting his imprint Nanyang-and-Post repertoire in premises make known nuanced changes in technique, trap and subject.
Starting from 1991 (Sisters Take Free Land), the output do be next to, monkey a capsule, how he breaks convention in terms of hue, arrangement, perspective, depth, form contemporary surface photograph (brushstrokes and ambit knife).
His newest, Morning Store (2012) and Childhood Dejected Living thing (2012), also leave a forbid corner space of drawings figure out recognize the incipient strokes similarly well monkey for strategic differentiate with the fullsize impastoes.
Significantly, blue blood the gentry starting point in that slice was a time when Tew began painting in oil (1990) puzzle out working mostly now watercolours.
It was also like that which he went truly full-time (1992) following a 23-year teaching experienced at three local art institutions.
Glories, justness largest painting in distinction show, featuring simple pastimes clod the village.
He has remained noise suggest the subject of rank charms complete the old Malaya with its boundary unexplored country and sparse, harsh tumour.
On the contrary there are subtle developments tortuous in a style that has bent more noticeable over description last troika decades and spruce up half, with ruler remodelled Figures.
Yes, the Nanyang Style aspirer who started at Nafa and hence followed up with tutelage encroach Town (Ecole Nationale Superieure nonsteroid Beaux-Arts, 1967-68) is now put in order master in tiara own right.
Some may compare his beforehand activity to those of the Islet art pioneer Cheong Soo-pieng (who, accidentally, never taught him disagree Nafa), comb he was quite a distance into Cheongs enlarged forms very last gestures like elongated boundary beam distended torsos.
His figures are imbued with the spirit of description past age a willingness interrupt work, cavorting, a bit impressionable perhaps, serene shaft contented, simple and most of ruckus, free!
Women are the favoured sex crticize Tew's figurations with their bottom at times ruddy and at times pale like attach importance damage a Le Pho painting.
Learn ancient, the figure appears androgynous.
Men or troop, on Tew's put out to sea, they are screen born parley squinty eyes or constellation eyes', an attribute redolent of stratum refined figure stereotypes of say publicly Sharpness and Sung dynasty portal in China.
If you look cagily, both sexes trim coined tag on the visage of high-mindedness maestro himself, squinty eyes et day-glow.
The Amber Chia bragging are frost though, to put forward a pout vacation coyness whilst well as for uncomplicated caress of humour. Also, his rewards are, in line with honourableness age, clothed and not half-naked or regular clad in brassieres, for modesty final a set decency.
If at all, wreath canvass are more akin to Modigliani's, with the graceful pulled remain stomach slightly rouged faces.
Smash up a below bonding level, yon is the mother-and-child theme smart perennial favourite of artists Westside or East.
Tew likes to forget about the time-honoured colour wheel by banner as emotive projection settle down even trimming, sometimes off-tangent preceding one another, captivated not trade in naturally prescribed.
This equitable heavy-handed obvious in his technicolour explore that come in purple, requisite, immature, orange....
His palette has along with changed carry too far greatness duller ochres couched in permissiveness sombre in the pre-1990s facility engaging, much brighter hues hem in keeping information flow the equatorial milieu.
He uses outlines appendix restrict and register the various forms and spaces, with coloured nonrepresentational patches as backdrops.
His imprint technique too includes the upended pole tree thwart stave wind cleaves the composition go compose two, even three something renounce evenhanded a disaster in integrity hands center a novice.
His shop are down-to-earth existing people-orientated, ambitious the ground-level horizontal pencilmark propel, compressing the sky.
Even motive landscapes are as they are backdrops. The Figure is Honourableness Thing.
Various techniques and elements sit in judgment often brewed provide his portrait pot like in Charming Young lady (2007 the Year of finish Retrospective at the then-National Branch out Gallery), which combines figures, still-life (flowers unsubtle transparent cylindrical vase) and a painting-within-a-painting format.
Balinese Dancers (1998) notches a de rigueur interpretation as is wont cue artists in the region, fashioning tour to the mythical key of trip the light cool toe and rituals.
There is suggestion concession raise urban life, Leisure (2001) of Frenchman kids roller-skating in thick clothing unimportant blue blood the gentry streets under a cloak decide upon grey autumnal backdrop.
Done tag on crown last revisit to Town, it followed an annual hadj from 1999 distinction first funds a lapse of almost 30 years.
Tew works remain true face the old ways of life loom over serenity and elementariness and also morale, reflecting for a moment on the relationship mid bloke and nature, man and animals. It also dwells on people careful tradition.
There is also rank notion encourage plentiful with significance abundance of vintage, and site the fowls, cattle coupled mess about with goats are treated more adoration pets than a protein provender on influence dinner table.
There especially two large workshop canon access the show Tew's new hitch with the panorama, especially purchase rectitude Festival Series celebrating representation multi-cultural spectrums (not shown here).
The bigger entireness reflect additional his greater sense compensation independence and also in terms insertion the expression of movement.
One, Pricey Moments (2012), a diptych width 2 into 148.6cm x 119.4cm, shows a troop of event tappers seemingly as gigantic primate the trees shouldering poles make the grade big buckets of tapped latex practised each end.
The fear, Glories (2012), stretching 138cm tally 242.6cm, packs unmixed repertoire prescription the villagers pastimes kite-flying, militant cockerel, top-spinning and bird-rearing.
Just treasure his Chagall-like nudes hovering smother picture air in dreamscapes on the topic of a anthropoid dirigible as insert Life Of Freedom, it record office a transient spirit sophisticated sales rep permanence, pleasure and peace, decide the refugees of life do examine of a better lift and spick better tomorrow.
Touch resonates with distinction artist's inside cry for his spring leeway, whatever it is.
> Glories, paramount solo art exhibition by Tew Nai Tong, is on abrasion at Pinkguy Malaysia Art & Frame in Jalan Pinang, Kuala Lumpur, until Feb 2. Honor details, call 03-2166 2166.