Speaker: Vincent LEE Kwun-leung (李冠良 )

Oil on Canvas Acrylic on Canvas Coloured Pencil on Paper Watercolour on Paper Pencil on Paper Charcoal on Paper / Wooden Board

A devoted studio artist from Fo Tan Industrial District

Competed for the seat of Legislative Council Functional Constituency in 2012, but was defeated by Ma Fung Kwok (馬逢國 )

Realistically portrayed the movie episodes with subtitles by using oil

Henry Tang asked whether CY Leung would suppress the protesters during the Debate Forum of Chief Executive Election in 2012

CY Leung claimed that the June 4 Incident was a tragedy during a press conference before his service as a HKSAR Chief Executive.

Invented the “Gongbi Painting with Hong Kong features” (gongbi: fine-brush painting)

Apply his “gongbi” style on the humorous comical-figure expressions while encountering with the political-art community projects

Glass-curtain sisters

Aunties

Portrayed the historical Chinese leaders from Republican era to Communist era by using coloured pencil

Awarded piece in “Hong Kong Contemporary Art Biennial Exhibition”

Portrayed the Governors before the Handover to reminisce how the British laid a meritorious foundation for Hong Kong to maintain its socio-economic prosperity

A devoted studio artist from Fo Tan Industrial District

Invented the methodology of drawing and painting on abandoned wooden boards with a mixture of charcoal, oil, acrylic and Chinese ink

Mixed media on wooden board: Figure with Western anatomy, landscape background with Chinese spiritual essences

A retired policeman whose watercolour paintings were acknowledged by Governor Chris Patten

Established a Country Art Museum in Tai Po for selling his paintings

Portrayed Dr. Sun Yat-sen and Madame Soong Ching-ling with rocky textures to show his admiration on the history of Republican China

Portrayed a monumental watercolour painting with political leaders, business leaders and celebrities from Hong Kong and Mainland China to glorify the socio-economic prosperity after the Handover

A retired postman who is the first local artist to explore abstract painting with acrylic as medium on canvases

Themes are related to Zen philosophies, with circles and vulvas as iconographies

His works are collected by Jardine House, Hong Kong Museum of Art and other institutions.

Mixture between Chinese and Western aesthetics on canvases

An abstract highlight on the gap of a lady’s vulva – explored the philosophy of whether human beings can restrain their lustful desires during their observation on a sexual organ for the pregnancy of babies

A contracted Fujianese artist from Art Of Nature International Company Limited, who has ever studied at Paris Academy of Fine Arts

As the President of Hong Kong Oil Painting Research Society, Lam Man Kong endeavours to organize “Hong Kong Oil Painting Competition” annually to raise Hong Kong people’s awareness on the beauty of Impressionistic and Realistic European oil-painting art

Humorously portrayed the interactions between Jacques René Chirac, the Former French President, and a nude lady during a formal function with lots of nobles and social celebrities

A young artist who establishes a children art studio in Kwun Tong

His colourful marker drawings, with Umbrella Revolution as episodes, catches the attention of press media

A democracy statue was established at the Admiralty Occupation Zone, which held a piece of yellow umbrella.

The aim of Umbrella Revolution was to strive for “Civil Nominations” as an important element of Universal Suffrage.

“Listening to Human-Cassette-Players” – The yellow-ribbon youngsters were dissatisfied with the vague promises by CY Leung, the top-ranked HKSAR government officials and Beijing leaders in revising the August-31 decision of National People’s Congress towards the format of Universal Suffrage.

Collins Yeung’s colourful marker drawing, with Paris Massacre as creative theme, was published by South China Morning Post.

Created a series of drawings as an academic research on the issues of heritage and architectural conservations

“Bedspace Apartment” is an important problem for the government to resolve, as the property hegemony makes lots of basic-class people unable to purchase flats and tolerate poor living environments inside the decayed Chinese residences.

“Blue House” is a unique cultural heritage in Wanchai District.

Despite of urban renewal, this stylistic architecture symbolizes the endeavouring memories of our elder generation, and it cannot be demolished.

Currently a Form 5 student at St. Paul’s Co-Education College

Obtained the Highest Honour from “The 33rd International Youth Montmartre Life Drawing Competition” and “The Hong Kong International Youth Drawing Competition 2013/14 – Life Drawing Competition”

Obtained two Gold Awards and “Award for the Best Global Individual Portfolios” from “The 15th Portugal International Youth Drawing Competition”

The Education Bureau of Russia has made a breakthrough by inviting Chiu Man-yan to organize a solo exhibition for her drawing works at Moscow National Academy of Fine Arts

Chiu sought a mixture between Western watercolour aesthetics and Chinese-ink aesthetics by portraying the hillside residences in Hong Kong.

Chiu does not care about whether drawing medium can help her succeed as a master artist or not. She shares much similarity with philosophy of William Kentridge, only getting fascinated with the leisurely use of charcoals for portraying the humanistic episodes from the public streets. For sure, she manages to use colourful watercolours as well.

“Gongbi”: fine-brush / delineative painting Outlining the contours of the objects and filling in the

colours with repetitive or semi-transparent layers Using fine and tiny brush for contour-outlining Mixing the Chinese watercolours with traditional

mineral-pigment powders Sometimes the artists can use silk as graphic

mediums to highlight the luminance of the portrayed objects

Adopting Western or Japanese figurative elements is acceptable for making “gongbi” as an asset of Hong Kong painting art.

Keen at portraying the narrative episodes in a tranquil vision

The narrative episodes are all related to the livelihood of basic-class people

Moonlight

A Sleeping Nude Lady

Invented the “Gongbi Painting with Hong Kong features” (gongbi: fine-brush painting)

Apply his “gongbi” style on the humorous comical-figure expressions while encountering with the political-art community projects

Portrayed the local college girls with standardized uniforms and appearances, which meant that the educators nowadays mechanically mold the students by forcing them to regurgitate textbook and examination knowledge. The students rarely discover their uniqueness in their personalities because they lack independent and critical thoughts.

Wong Xiang Yi is fascinated with Japanese comics. She has chosen BL comic series (i.e. “Boys Love” series) as her creative theme for developing her own “gongbi” style and raising public awareness on the bitterness of homosexual minorities in Hong Kong.

Wong Xiang Yi thinks that, it is not a sin for two young twinks, who truly love each other, to share the same living area despite of no marriages.

Wong Xiang Yi thinks that, the physical interactions between two twinks have transcended the secular perception on the notion of love. The homosexual minorities are pursuing “heavenly love”.

“Yibi”: self-expressive painting (or “xieyi painting”) Chinese-ink and watercolour on xuanzhi paper

Adopting the elements of Rococo, Impressionism, German Expressionism, Cubism or Abstract Expressionism is acceptable, under a criterion that the “vividness of spiritual essences” and “vibrancy of structural brushworks” are preserved.

Adopting the elements called “Principles of Design” is acceptable, so as to strive for a balance between the “emotional” qualities of “moisturized ink leisures” and the “rational” qualities of “geometrical and spatial distributions” in the entire visual presentation

Form a school of creative thought called “The Modern Chinese-Ink Painting with Hong Kong features” (港式現代水墨 )

Lui Shou Kun was the founder of “Modern Chinese-Ink Paintings with Hong Kong features” to stir up a social-wide reform in the aspect of Chinese brush methodologies.

He deconstructed the language of Chinese ink to a minimal and symbolic status, so as to convey the Taoist philosophies.

Wucius Wong is an honourable consultant in many local governmental institutions related to Chinese-ink art administration.

He grew up from a background of design studies, thus he hopes to merge what he learnt with the “Chinese spiritual essences” of the literati-art traditions.

Wucius Wong assumed himself as observing the landscape of Hong Kong from the airplane, and the mountainous patterns with rivers were intentionally separated by the “satellite-liked” grids.

Wucius Wong thinks that, the awesomeness of atmospheric episodes from the nature, no matter for the waterfalls or the fogs, are fabricated by a “logic” (li, 理 ) from Heaven. Thus, “rational grids” can be accepted to ensure that the river water is evenly flowed to different parts of the Earth.

Luis Chan believed that art could be very imaginative. He was deeply influenced by the European expressionistic painters from the 20th Century, such as Marc Chagall. He wanted to create a series of works to illustrate the humanistic episodes of Hong Kong people.

Luis Chan portrayed the humans with disordered anatomies. He rarely used Chinese ink. He believed that a piece of Chinese painting, with xuanzhi paper as the graphic medium, could be as colourful as a piece of narrative oil painting by Marc Chagall. Thus, he chose to apply acrylic pigments on xuanzhi papers.

From this piece called “The Embrace” (1968), Louis Chan wanted to tell stories from his painting, which corresponded with the vision of Romanticism.

Chan Shing Kau is a loyal apprentice of Liu Guosong (劉國松 ), who initiates the trend of “Modern Chinese-Ink Painting” in Taiwan.

Chan Shing Kau invented three kinds of methodologies, namely: “plucking sinew and peeling

skin” strokes (抽筋剝皮皴 ), “white linear as a substitute to

black linear” (以白絲代替黑線 ), and

“white linear for a production of tensions” (白線產出張力 )

Brenda Hong is an apprentice of Chan Shing Kau. She promotes a feministic mode of moisturized ink leisures.

Brenda Hong’s expertise is to paint lotuses with a Rococo vision. The lotuses are described with an adjective called “drunk”, as the petals of the floral blossoms are seemingly dived into a glass of wines to release the lipstick-liked pigments.

Researcher of “Li Keran Academy of Painting Arts” (李可染畫院 )

“Lotus Series” and “Tibet Series” are his most famous creations

A brave use of colourful pigment transformations with intentional highlights of melted gold powders to enhance the connoisseurship values

The petals of the lotuses were presented as round regiments with childhood features, whereas the floral axises were bold and straightforward without textural modifications

Lam Tin Hang loves travelling to Tibet and observing the minimal lifestyles of the ethnical minorities there.

He disorders the architectural structures of temples and monasteries. These constructions are decorated by sunset and autumn environments through splashing moisturized watercolour pigments onto different parts of the xuanzhi papers.

Selected institutions that have collected Lam’s pieces:

China Museum of Fine Arts (中國美術館 ) National Academy of Painting Arts (國家畫院 ) Guangzhou Museum of Fine Arts (廣州美術館 ) Shenzhen Museum of Fine Arts (深圳美術館 ) Hong Kong Museum of Art (香港藝術館 ) Hong Kong Museum of Heritage (香港文化博物館 )

The Government House of Hong Kong (香港禮賓府 )

The Washington DC Economic & Trade Office of the HKSAR Government (香港駐華盛頓貿易發展局 )

Cathay Pacific Airways Limited (香港國泰航空公司 )

Four Seasons Hotel Hong Kong(香港四季酒店 ) Four Seasons Hotel Macau (澳門四季酒店 ) Mandarin Oriental Hong Kong (香港文華東方酒店 )

Beijing Shangri-La Hotel (北京香格里拉酒店 ) United Airlines (聯合航空公司 ) Credit Suisse Group AG (瑞士信貸銀行 ) Bank of China (Hong Kong) Limited (香港中國銀行 )

Apple Daily Oriental Daily Wen Wui Po South China Morning Post The Hong Kong Museum of Art Hong Kong Visual Arts Yearbook Artron.net Artvalue.com Arthongkong.net Collins Yeung Art Studio Wilson Shieh Cultural Palace The Art Of Nature International Company Limited China Star Light Charity Fund Association Country Art Museum A-Lift Gallery

Declarations: The selection of artworks were not attributed to the consideration on political ideologies, but

were subjected to a careful research on whether the corresponding creative styles comprise connoisseurship values or not.

The sequence for the distribution of selected artists in this PowerPoint slide was not designed in accordance with the issue of age hierarchy.