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Sketches of Nudes by Tsang Kai-hong
28
April to 3 June 2007
The
University Museum and Art Gallery of The University
of Hong Kong is delighted to present an exhibition
of drawings from life by the Hong Kong-born artist
Tsang Kai-hong. The exhibition features his recent
sketches of nudes, as well as earlier drawings
and engravings.
Tsang
advocates the study of the human figure through
life drawing, a Western art tradition that was
introduced to China relatively recently in the
early Republican period. His drawing skills were
originally founded on the careful attention to
modelling, volume and texture of the Soviet socialist
realistic manner of the 1950s. He later assimilated
German expressionistic style, and a geometrical
approach, with traditional drawing and Chinese
painting techniques. This exhibition includes
Tsang's works of the 1960s to 1980s, tracing the
evolution of his drawing from his early experiments
in technique to an expressionistic approach.
Tsang's
recent sketches of nudes are characterized by
rhythmic line and subjective creativity, rendering
in his figures the element of resonance in the
language of Chinese painting. The art of the nude
reflects not the reality of a model, but the perception
of the body's beauty expressed by the artist.
Tsang's images of ordinary people always display
a universal sense of beauty that recalls the classical
tradition on which his skills and ideal of beauty
are based.
Tsang also excels in printmaking, and taught drawing
and copperplate printing at the Guangzhou Academy
of Fine Arts between 1958 and 1987. His prints
have been exhibited in China and overseas. He
has lived in Hong Kong since 1987.
Female
nude
Charcoal 24-2-2004
(Photo
courtesy of University Museum and Art Gallery,
HKU)
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