Uploaded: 8th September 2011
Martin Wood has been painting since his schooling days doing simple sketches in black and whites where beautiful creations at such a young age caught the eyes of his teachers who were amazed at the talent portrayed before them. With constant encouragements event at that early years as a beginner is enough to promise Martin the path he eventually chose to one day be a successful if not a colourful painter.
A self-taught artist with determination where his formative years of learning comes from buying countless art books and magazines of which are the only way available and close enough to formal training as an artist. |
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Uploaded: 8th September 2011
Fusion of Passion aptly describes how these different passions come together to create an exhibition worthy of commemorating and celebrating the meaning of Malaysia through fine art, sculpture, photography and illustration. The 'fusion' aspect of it happens in several ways: gathering artists and artworks within one gallery, in this case the revered halls of GALERI PETRONAS, and the synthesis of mediums, methods and disciplines within and beyond the genre of art. More than just fusing passions, talent is merged as well, with established masters and emerging artists given equal opportunity for their talent to shine.
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Uploaded: 8th September 2011
Public Programmes / Program - Program Awam di GALERI PETRONAS
An Evening with Amri Ginang
16 September 2011 Friday / Jumaat 4.00pm - 6.00pm
Come and take a journey with one of Malaysia’s pioneering photographer Amri Ginang as he takes you into a personal quest into the world of photography.
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Uploaded: 22nd August 2011
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Wong Miau Yong was born in Kuala Lumpur in 1951 and graduated from Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore in 1972. He went on a study tour to Europe in 1982 and held his first solo exhibition in Kuala Lumpur in 1988 where it expanded to Kota Kinabalu, Sabah and Singapore. Experimenting on techniques and colour combinations using different media from acrylic to oil painting to mix media are part of what he did besides painting. Most of his works has been exhibited in Japan, China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand. During his 30 years of devotion to the art world, contemporary artist Wong Miau Yong has never ceased to seek for breakthroughs in his art works in order to unfold a new horizon to his journey of creativity. He abandons certain traditional concepts, using his unique ideas and brushstrokes to paint Majestic Universe, Magnificent Cosmos and images with vitality and dynamics.
Wong Miau Yong is an artist with social conscience whereby his art pieces provoke environmental awareness. He uses modern skills, combined with vivid colors to establish a style of his own that conveys this environmental message. In his quest to explore the mysteries of this planet, he adventured through volcano craters, inspired through cinders and gases. |
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Uploaded: 22nd August 2011
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Chiang Shih Wen was born in 1949, Malacca, West Malaysia. He studied at Kuala Lumpur College of Art and graduated in 1974.Shih Wen paints with oil and watercolor. He painted many old Malaysian colonial buildings in the past. His paintings have become more abstract however, still including the subjects of buildings and people who live and move around them. He has a distinctive style of his own, matured technique had earned him recognition and many followers. Shih Wen has exhibited extensively throughout Malaysia, Asia and Europe. |
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