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Still-life with innuendoes.
Klang-born Tew Nai Tong had already shown early promise, as can be attested by these three early drawings of classical statues and one from..
Women at work: Tew Nai Tong and Glory Era, his painting of women bearing buckets of rubber latex on poles, at his Glories solo exhibition in Kuala Lumpur.
Tew Nai Tong's latest exhibition is a veritable journey through the veteran artist's work and life.� AZMAN GHANI/The Star
THE Glories exhibition is a cursory timeline of Tew Nai Tong's art, craft and life, taking up the story nearly 35 years into his career after his first art studies at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts in Singapore (Nafa, 1957-58).
Maybe not so much by design, the 28 works offer glimpses of his different periods and at different places, while he varies on his trademark Nanyang-and-Post repertoire in terms of nuanced changes in technique, style and subject.
Starting from 1991 (Sisters And Free Land), the works do show, as a capsule, how he breaks convention in terms of colour, spacing, perspective, depth, form and surface painting (brushstrokes and palette knife).
His latest, Morning