Nicholas Choong On Sale

Nicholas Choong creates cityscape series that contains his emotional responsiveness to living in Kuala Lumpur. Choong portraits a city scenery with dense and rich colors. Buildings are made of bold, scraping and slapping paints with palette knives. He applies cool colors on his city landscape that reveals cold and detached connections in a city. Lights of signs, buildings, cars’ headlights or reflection on rain illuminate the city. Paints drip onto canvas become different intermittent gleam of city lights. In Nicholas’s paintings, Kuala Lumpur is a city of lights that is full of energy and passion. However, there are loneliness and uncertainty behind a prosperous city. Choong’s paintings are reminiscent of Paul Cézanne who was the master of Post-impressionism and had inspired Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse and those modernism masters afterward. Cézanne stated “We must not paint what we think we see, but what we see” Choong said in his statement that “Through painting, I've observed things about myself and how I view the world”. Therefore, his paintings are unlikely to tell people what does a metropolitan city, such as Kuala Lumpur, look like, instead, he features an artist’s sentiment of what he feels about the city. Nicholas Choong, as well as Cézanne, spends much time to modulate colours. For the artist, this is a moment to make a conversation with his canvas, asking questions of what does the painting need and want me to do? During a constant conversation between the artist and his canvas, an artist’s concept is concretely formed in a painting. Nicholas Choong was born in 1977. He studied watercolours under a mentor at the age of 13. When he was 16 he learnt Graphic Design, Sound Engineering and Photography working as a Production assistant in the film industry. In 2011, he started painting and later joined the Sembilan Art Residency Programme in Seremban. During that time, he also mentored under Wei Ling Gallery and has continued to exhibit artworks in group and solo shows up until this day. In 2018, Nicholas Choong joined the esteemed Rimbun Dahan Arts Residency as a 3-months Southeast Asian Artist in Residence which culminated in his cityscapes works and had exhibited them at the National Art Gallery in Malaysia.

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Abstract art has origins in 19th-century Europe, but it came into its own as a significant movement during the 20th century. Early practitioners of abstraction included Wassily Kandinsky, although painters were exploring nonfigurative art prior to the influential Russian artist’s efforts, which were inspired by music and religion. Abstract painters endeavored to create works that didn’t focus on the outside world’s conventional subjects, and even when artists depicted realistic subjects, they worked in an abstract mode to do so.

In 1940s-era New York City, a group of painters working in the abstract mode created radical work that looked to European avant-garde artists as well as to the art of ancient cultures, prioritizing improvisation, immediacy and direct personal expression. While they were never formally affiliated with one another, we know them today as Abstract Expressionists.

The male contingent of the Abstract Expressionists, which includes Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Robert Motherwell, is frequently cited in discussing leading figures of this internationally influential postwar art movement. However, the women of Abstract Expressionism, such as Helen Frankenthaler, Lee Krasner, Joan Mitchell and others, were equally involved in the art world of the time. Sexism, family obligations and societal pressures contributed to a long history of their being overlooked, but the female Abstract Expressionists experimented vigorously, developed their own style and produced significant bodies of work.

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