Gong Fu 40 - Print

Gong Fu 40 - PrintFollowing an intense period of self reflection, the artist describes how he wanted to lift himself to a cheerier state by painting buoyant, happily themed works. In the Kung Fu Series, the artist plays with the regalia of the Chinese warrior as a visual motif. Yet at the heart of these paintings is a wariness, or preparation for self defense. The figures stand guarded, ready for a fight. The threat is always beyond the frame of the painting the viewer

“Golden Cockerel stands solitarily” is also a title used to describe a pose in traditional Shaolin Kung Fu

we see a contrast in styles

Note the artist’s signature

or preparation for self-defense

Note here the text along the left hand side of the canvas

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and married Brigit Lloyd

Chen often experiments with series of repeated figures across works as a way of playing with the more random application of watercolour and oil

Reference: Michael Johnson

1859 to Irish immigrant parents and died at the age of 21 during the Siege of Glenrowan

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somehow revolting masculine figure