Cheong soo pieng biography of donald

He was also known for his signature depiction of Southeast Asian indigenous tribal people with elongated limbs and torso, almond-shaped faces and eyes in his paintings. Cheong was born the youngest of seven children in Amoy , China. His parents were neutral to his choice of education, when Cheong took to studying art at the Xiamen Academy of Fine Art in In Cheong graduated and attended Xinhua Academy of Fine Art in Shanghai for further studies, only to have his education cut short with the breakout of the Sino-Japanese War and the school destroyed by Japanese invaders in Cheong returned to his alma mater to teach art, and pursued his painting passion in watercolours due to scarcity of oil paint materials.

In Cheong held his first solo exhibition of watercolor works. The exhibition was officially opened by the Duchess of Kent. Cheong died on 1 July due to heart failure.

Cheong Soo Pieng: An Overview Introduction.

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Cheong Soo Pieng (simplified Chinese: 钟泗宾; traditional Chinese: 鍾泗賓; pinyin: Zhōng Sì Bīn; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tsing Sì-pin) was a Singaporean artist who was a pioneer of the Nanyang art style, and a driving force to the development of Modernism in visual art in the early 20th-century Singapore.

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