Resource Kit Overview

Landscape painting has always been the mainstream in Chinese art. Chinese painters are also literati. They emphasize the use and presentation of ink in their paintings to express deep thoughts and the harmonious relationship between the universe, the earth and human beings. They do not draw the landscape to give an objective depiction of what they see, but to express their subjective feelings. Because of respect for tradition and history, the format of Chinese paintings seldom changed for centuries. At the beginning of the twentieth century, however, many Chinese painters began to seek changes. In Hong Kong, where Chinese and Western cultures meet, a lot of new elements were introduced in ink painting by Hong Kong artist.

Wong was trained in traditional ink painting and received Western art education. In his works, he successfully combines the subjective feelings expressed in ink paintings with the rational style of Western art. Wong demonstrates exquisite painting skills and poignancy in his traditional landscape paintings, and they clash and combine brilliantly with Western aesthetics and design elements, such as the use of framing in composition and light-dark contrast, to become a key feature of Wong’s works.

This resource kit aims to introduce Wong’s works and allow students to use the geometric segregation methods often used by Wong to reinterpret traditional Chinese ink paintings, and experience how modern and traditional ideas can be combined.

• The East and the West
• Artist Introduction
• Video Viewing and appreciation
• Exploring Technique: linear drawing, axe-cut texture strokes and hemp-fibre texture strokes
• Exploring Effects: Painting Composition And Geometric Segregation Approaches
• The Bauhaus Design Concepts, grid rearrangement and practicing
• Analysis of the works
• Your Art-making Activity: Modern Ink Painting “Moving Landscape”