작품 상세

In this tranquil composition, Yu Chian portrays a quiet landscape using a muted palette of white and brown tones. The choice of restrained colours enhances the stillness of the image, while drawing the viewer in through the use of perspective. Capturing a moment in time, the artist delicately renders the reflections in a small river stream. A graduate from the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore in 1958, Yu Chian was the first artist in Malaya to be awarded a French Government scholarship to study at the famed Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts in Paris from 1959 to 1962. He had his works accepted 15 times in prestigious Salon exhibitions in Paris and received Honourable Mentions in the Salon des Independent and Societe des Artistes Francaise, which was rare for a non-French artist. He was also commissioned to do a mural titled Life In Malaysia for the Malaysian High Commission in Paris. He returned to Malaysia in February 1962 and held a solo exhibition at the British Council in Penang where all 110 works were sold.