Taking water and colours to new heights
By Ooi Kok Chuen
August 2015 PENANG PALETTE
Watercolours are deemed low in the art hierarchy. But it is in that genre that Chang Fee Ming is a game-changer, known for constantly pushing the parameters of medium, form, style and content to levels previously unimagined.He has turned the typical functions of the medium on its head, and his works have morphed from the obvious transparent washes to more leathery and lush tapestries in his astonishing Road to Mandalay series (1994), which are akin to Zhang Yimou’s cinematic fugue,...
Ooi Kok Chuen
is an art-writer and journalist, and the author of MAHSURI: A Legend Reborn (Ooi Peeps Publishing), an adult contemporary fantasy “movel” (a novel conceived as a mock movie) spun from a local legend.
