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[nb-NO]Record tools[nb-NO] [nb-NO]Displays[nb-NO]	[nb-NO]Details[nb-NO] Remove from selection Toevoegen aan selectie CollectionSouth & Southeast Asian Collection [nb-NO]Object number[nb-NO]S1980-0583-001-0 [nb-NO]Title[nb-NO]Kampong (Village) [nb-NO]Creator[nb-NO]Chen Chong Swee [+] [-] Birth:1910 China Death:1985 Singapore Bibliography: [nb-NO]Description[nb-NO]Kampong (Village) exemplifies Chen’s early endeavours towards local imageries in the Chinese ink and brush landscape format. In 1952, Chen accompanied Chen, Liu and Cheong, on a painting trip to Bali. The trip proved to be an important one as it surfaced Bali as a source for imaging the Nanyang. “In ‘Kampung’ (Village), 1968, Chen Chong swee transfers a scheme from Chinese pictorial tradition to the region of Southeast Asia, adapting and making it hospitable to new, different pictorial content. A village of thatch-roofed houses connected by raided walkways and coconut palms, nestles in a river valley. It is sited in the middle distance; we see it from an elevated position; the village is set in a deep, rolling mountain landscape. The village by the sea or river, ringed by coconut palms becomes a leitmotif in paintings of landscape developed in the fifties, Chong Swee sutures this motif with a received scheme for landscape from the Chinese tradition, producing a hybrid form.” (Past, Present , Beyond: Re-nascence of an Art Collection, Page 62 - 63) A Malaysian landscape treated realistically as a typical Chinese scroll painting. Chen Chong Swee, an accomplished Chinese landscape painter and a reputable Western style watercolourist, painted indigenous scenes of South-East Asian countries in the manner of the Chinese hanging scroll with Western realism [nb-NO]Production place[nb-NO]Singapore [nb-NO]Date[nb-NO] 1949 [nb-NO]Object category[nb-NO]Chinese Painting, Painting [nb-NO]Material[nb-NO]Chinese Ink and Colour on Fabric, Chinese Ink, Ink, Fabric [nb-NO]Dimensions[nb-NO] Height: 143 cm Length: 68.5 cm Height: 187 cm Length: 82 cm

CollectionSouth & Southeast Asian Collection

[nb-NO]Object number[nb-NO]S1980-0583-001-0

[nb-NO]Title[nb-NO]Kampong (Village)

[nb-NO]Description[nb-NO]Kampong (Village) exemplifies Chen’s early endeavours towards local imageries in the Chinese ink and brush landscape format. In 1952, Chen accompanied Chen, Liu and Cheong, on a painting trip to Bali. The trip proved to be an important one as it surfaced Bali as a source for imaging the Nanyang. “In ‘Kampung’ (Village), 1968, Chen Chong swee transfers a scheme from Chinese pictorial tradition to the region of Southeast Asia, adapting and making it hospitable to new, different pictorial content. A village of thatch-roofed houses connected by raided walkways and coconut palms, nestles in a river valley. It is sited in the middle distance; we see it from an elevated position; the village is set in a deep, rolling mountain landscape. The village by the sea or river, ringed by coconut palms becomes a leitmotif in paintings of landscape developed in the fifties, Chong Swee sutures this motif with a received scheme for landscape from the Chinese tradition, producing a hybrid form.” (Past, Present , Beyond: Re-nascence of an Art Collection, Page 62 - 63)

A Malaysian landscape treated realistically as a typical Chinese scroll painting. Chen Chong Swee, an accomplished Chinese landscape painter and a reputable Western style watercolourist, painted indigenous scenes of South-East Asian countries in the manner of the Chinese hanging scroll with Western realism

[nb-NO]Production place[nb-NO]Singapore

[nb-NO]Date[nb-NO] 1949

[nb-NO]Object category[nb-NO]Chinese Painting, Painting

[nb-NO]Material[nb-NO]Chinese Ink and Colour on Fabric, Chinese Ink, Ink, Fabric

[nb-NO]Dimensions[nb-NO]

Height: 143 cm
Length: 68.5 cm
Height: 187 cm
Length: 82 cm