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Friday, January 31, 2003


Artist Feature



Dr Earl Lu was the First Chairman of the Singapore Art Museum and a Member of the Museum Board of the National University of Singapore.

Dr Lu's passion is Brush Painting. He has painted since 1956. He believes that Chinese brush painting is the same as calligraphy. Like most calligraphers he is interested in lines.

Dr Lu is achieving a new artistic form of life drawing. This form of painting is analogous to calligraphy where one converts from Kaishu, the regular script, into Caoshu, the cursive script. When Dr Lu sketches his roses, he has now come to the stage when it is like Caoshu. This is what he would like to do in his drawings of a human being, whether it`s a man or a woman, to practise so hard and work so hard, that every sketch he makes is accurate in both its anatomy and its posture so that the figure won`t fall over, it`s nicely balanced. He says, "In the end it is your vision of the world that is interesting to other people, because your interpretation is more important than an accurate likeness."




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