Wong Shun kits images depict scenes from everyday life or from the news. Unlike the classical Chinese painting , also known as poets painting, his pictures are wearing neither special nor poetic harmony in the classical sense , but they are deliberately striking and provocative, and they carry a very direct message . In his series “shehui yankuang” - literally meaning "eye socket of society - ", Wong represents scenes of the simple life. Here, Wong, at large, makes use of the brush technique on rice paper as in the classical Chinese painting, though it doesn’t follow their strict rules , but leaves much freedom to his brush. He uses and modified elements of folk art, of the Han cave painting, the Buddhist temple art and even the Christian church painting. His style is vigorous, coarse and sometimes has graffiti - like structures . Whereas in traditional painting, each individual brushstroke is set precisely, he partially scribbles on his pictures the way children do on walls or labels . " This scribbling is the natural way to paint," says Wong. In free calligraphy Wong Shun -kit invents the classic Chinese painting in the context of contemporary anew.
Dr. Jasmin Gong, 2014 (curator)
