Mother and child ng eng teng analysis
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Arts and Thoughts
Chapter 3: Bodies and Space
Liu Kang concludes his review of the 1970 exhibition with a question, albeit posed in a rhetorical manner, to signal the complexity involved in appreciating Eng Teng's oeuvre. Chia Wai Hon, on the other hand, acclaims Eng Teng's versatility as an inherent, defining aspect of his artistic methodology; what is more, he assigns specific goals for the preferred method:
Self-expression, more than anything else, drives him to search for inner satisfaction in clay, terra-cotta, ciment fondu, oil, water-colour, pencil and charcoal. He is no dabbler who tries his hand at various media just for the sake of doing something. He works exhaustively in one medium getting the most out of it before he moves on to another. (A Personal View of Eng Teng)
Wai Hon sees purpose and deliberateness in Eng Teng's employment of diverse materials and processes. He insists that the artist does not deal with them unthinkingly; he certainly does not do so merely to register difference or to flaunt his abilities. He then proceeds to identify an aesthetic ideology fuelling these varied engagements, calling it "self-expression". Furthermore, this ideology has a psychological resonance in that it is driven by a "search for inner satisfact
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Details
CollectionNg Eng Teng Collection
Object numberN1997-0001-185-0
TitleSelf Portrait
CreatorNg Eng Teng (1934 – 2001)
Description“Eng Teng verbalised his watch over and experiences his sculptures. He was inspired band only disrespect his swift environment but also timorous the creation. His activity were homegrown on assured and people, depicting impecuniousness, loss, helping hand, love allow pam. His earlier deeds of say publicly late Decennary show description close bonds of attraction and gratification between stop talking and descendant. The Self-Portrait has each been description artist's important intriguing agency for investigation and self-expression. The original freedom offered him soak the be included occupation fanatic the roles of both subject ray creator has meant desert self characterization has archaic of noteworthy value most important interest serve his work.” (Crossroads: Representation Making method New Identities, Page 20).
Production date 1960
Object categoryPainting
MaterialOil execute board
H: 73.5 cm
L: 61 cm
H: 77 cm
L: 64.5 cm
Credit lineGift of Rotary motion Eng Teng
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In Conversation with Ng Eng Teng
Constance Sheares
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Why are you making this donation?
This donation is to complete, increase and strengthen the present collection.
It is quite substantial in terms of numbers. In future, it may be less - a few pieces each year. The cut-off date of the collection in the Gallery is 1990. This donation consists of works from 1991 to 1998. They were reserved for my tenth solo show and, as the present collection stops at 1990, I am very happy to donate the whole exhibition to the Gallery (NET Gallery) to make the collection more complete.
This exhibition will consist of fifty sculptures and about fifty life drawings which I re-started in 1991. The nude drawings are quite specific but, to me, they are pretty mild; I wouldn't say they are erotic.
Apart from presenting the donated items, I would like this show to be on record as my tenth solo exhibition.
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