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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]S2000-0001-001-0 [nb-NO]Title[nb-NO]Farming [nb-NO]Creator[nb-NO]Chuah Thean Teng [nb-NO]Description[nb-NO]Farming by Chuah Thean Teng is an almost chimerical observation of agricultural life in Malaya before the outbreak of the Japanese War. The viewer is granted a lofty view of farmers tilling the ground with their ox beneath a coconut and a palm tree. Chuah has liberally recombined some of the most distinct elements of rural agricultural life in this print.A woodcut depicting a typical Malaysian rural landscape in a Chinese hanging scroll format. Two tall coconut trees dominate a pastoral scene of farmers plowing their fields with oxen. It is an early Chuah Thean Teng long before his venture into the art of batik painting which earned for him a world wide reputation as Malaysia's first modern master painter using the traditional batik technique. [nb-NO]Production place[nb-NO]Malaysia [nb-NO]Object category[nb-NO]Woodblock Print, Print [nb-NO]Material[nb-NO]Ink on Paper, Ink, Paper [nb-NO]Technique[nb-NO]Printmaking [nb-NO]Dimensions[nb-NO] H: 11.2 cm L: 3.4 cm H: 45 cm L: 35 cm

CollectionSouth & Southeast Asian Collection

[nb-NO]Object number[nb-NO]S2000-0001-001-0

[nb-NO]Title[nb-NO]Farming

[nb-NO]Description[nb-NO]Farming by Chuah Thean Teng is an almost chimerical observation of agricultural life in Malaya before the outbreak of the Japanese War. The viewer is granted a lofty view of farmers tilling the ground with their ox beneath a coconut and a palm tree. Chuah has liberally recombined some of the most distinct elements of rural agricultural life in this print.A woodcut depicting a typical Malaysian rural landscape in a Chinese hanging scroll format. Two tall coconut trees dominate a pastoral scene of farmers plowing their fields with oxen. It is an early Chuah Thean Teng long before his venture into the art of batik painting which earned for him a world wide reputation as Malaysia's first modern master painter using the traditional batik technique.

[nb-NO]Production place[nb-NO]Malaysia

[nb-NO]Object category[nb-NO]Woodblock Print, Print

[nb-NO]Material[nb-NO]Ink on Paper, Ink, Paper

[nb-NO]Technique[nb-NO]Printmaking

[nb-NO]Dimensions[nb-NO]

H: 11.2 cm
L: 3.4 cm
H: 45 cm
L: 35 cm