Issues of Contemporary Art and Aesthetics in Chinese Context by Eva Kit Wah Man

Author:Eva Kit Wah Man
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Berlin, Heidelberg

Wong regarded the “Eastern identity” of young Hong Kong artists as the language they learned as they grew. Chinese ways of living, thinking, and visual habits are all related to the Chinese tradition. This identity, becomes “the other” in a foreign context and can result in an impetus for artistic experimentation. Wong himself had attempted to give up the traditional lines in Chinese painting and painted landscapes in oil and the human figure in ink. But no matter how hard he tried to combine the East and the West, the former was still his base and structure. Soon he decided to return, both to his homeland in Hong Kong and to his Chinese painting tradition in order to have, in his own words “a greater freedom in creativity” (Wong 1966).

Wong’s idea of return is similar to Lui’s notion of return, except Wong elaborated more explicitly on the existential experience as a Hong Kong artist.A return to the East does not mean just a return to the tradition or to cut oneself off from the West, both are impossible. We are living in a place where the East meets the West; we grow in our tradition while our way of living is under the influence of the West. To escape would only mean to limit one’s creativity. (Wong 1966)

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