Yong Mun Sen
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Yong Mun Sen. Born Yong Yen Lang in Kuching, Sarawak. He changed his name to Yong Mun Sen in 1922.
He is widely known as the Father of Malaysian Painting. Although trained in formal Chinese brush painting and calligraphy in Kwangtung, China, as an artist he was drawn to watercolours and later oils.
He settled in Penang in 1922 where he had his own art studios in Penang Road and later Northam Road.
Mun Sen is famous for his landscape paintings in watercolours which incorporated influences from Chinese art resulting in more airy and generalised compositions rather than in more detailed or factual depictions. after his death in 1962, his works retain an important and honoured place in Malaysian Art.
He has two offsprings who follow in his footsteps, ChengWah and KhengWah. Both are well establish atists in their own medium.
[Remembering Yong Mun Sen, http://www.igeorgetownpenang.com/features/656-remembering-yong-mun-sen]
He is widely known as the Father of Malaysian Painting. Although trained in formal Chinese brush painting and calligraphy in Kwangtung, China, as an artist he was drawn to watercolours and later oils.
He settled in Penang in 1922 where he had his own art studios in Penang Road and later Northam Road.
Mun Sen is famous for his landscape paintings in watercolours which incorporated influences from Chinese art resulting in more airy and generalised compositions rather than in more detailed or factual depictions. after his death in 1962, his works retain an important and honoured place in Malaysian Art.
He has two offsprings who follow in his footsteps, ChengWah and KhengWah. Both are well establish atists in their own medium.
External links
- [Yong Mun Sen - Penang Artists, http://www.penang-artists.com/YongMunSen.htm]
[Remembering Yong Mun Sen, http://www.igeorgetownpenang.com/features/656-remembering-yong-mun-sen]