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Aktionen Anzeigeoptionen	Details Aus Auswahl entfernen Zur Auswahl hinzufügen CollectionNg Eng Teng Collection InventarnummerN1998-0001-068-0 TitelWater Drops Hersteller and Cultural Medallion awardee in 1981. Born in 1934 Ng Eng Teng is considered Singapore’s foremost sculptor, he was educated first at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, then went to the UK to study sculpture and ceramics at the North Staffordshire College of Technology and the Farnham School of Art. He donated his personal collection to NUS in 1997-1998 for further study in the setting of the University. He also served as an adviser and instructor to the NUS CFA’s Ceramic Studio project.1934-07-12Singapore2001-11-04SingaporeNg Eng Teng Beschreibung“Water Drops (1991), for instance, may be interpreted by the uninitiated as an abstract rendition of rain on a mountain slope, but was in fact inspired by a Chinese poem on the subject of tears which may be those of joy or of sorrow. So, instead of a mountain, it suddenly assumes the shape of two tear drops on a face looked at in profile.” (Bodies Transformed, Ng Eng Teng in the Nineties, Page 17). Datum 1991 SachgruppeSculpture MaterialStoneware, Ceramic, Glaze Format Height: 57 cm Length: 56 cm Width: 17 cm Credit lineGift of Ng Eng Teng

InventarnummerN1998-0001-068-0

TitelWater Drops

Hersteller and Cultural Medallion awardee in 1981. Born in 1934 Ng Eng Teng is considered Singapore’s foremost sculptor, he was educated first at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, then went to the UK to study sculpture and ceramics at the North Staffordshire College of Technology and the Farnham School of Art. He donated his personal collection to NUS in 1997-1998 for further study in the setting of the University. He also served as an adviser and instructor to the NUS CFA’s Ceramic Studio project.1934-07-12Singapore2001-11-04SingaporeNg Eng Teng

Beschreibung“Water Drops (1991), for instance, may be interpreted by the uninitiated as an abstract rendition of rain on a mountain slope, but was in fact inspired by a Chinese poem on the subject of tears which may be those of joy or of sorrow. So, instead of a mountain, it suddenly assumes the shape of two tear drops on a face looked at in profile.” (Bodies Transformed, Ng Eng Teng in the Nineties, Page 17).

Datum 1991

SachgruppeSculpture

MaterialStoneware, Ceramic, Glaze

Format

Height: 57 cm
Length: 56 cm
Width: 17 cm

Credit lineGift of Ng Eng Teng

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