Fishing villages and the sea
Fishing Village and Fishermen (Cubism)
2013, oil on canvas, approx. 38 x 42 cm
Recent work
Recent work: the cubist turn
Tan's most recent series marks the furthest point yet on the road he named in 1999: from realism to abstraction. The new paintings are cubist in construction, faceted planes and interlocking forms, while keeping the atmospheric warmth he learned from the English landscape tradition of Constable and Turner. It is a late development, and a deliberate one: the observer of Penang's vanishing world turning to the modern language he has studied since the beginning. (Extend this page as the new works are photographed and catalogued; each new work enters the registry with year and dimensions like any other.)
Rural life, birds, flowers and auspicious nature
Fishing villages and the sea
Fishing villages and the sea
Fishing villages and the sea
Fishing villages and the sea
Fishing villages and the sea
Festivals, figures and community
Rural life, birds, flowers and auspicious nature
Fishing villages and the sea
Festivals, figures and community
Command Performance (Konsert Perdana)
2004, oil on canvas, 18 x 36 in
Rural life, birds, flowers and auspicious nature
Lotus
1999, oil on canvas, 18 x 20 in
Style tags are assigned conservatively. Further cubist works among the recent plates are held for review before they are surfaced here.