Yong Mun Sen

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Yong Mun Sen (b. 1896 – 1962). Born Yong Yen Lang in Kuching, Sarawak, he changed his name to Yong Mun Sen in 1922.

Yong Mun Sen was born on 10 January 1896 in Kuching, Sarawak. He father ran a coconut estate. In 1901, Sen went to Tai-Pu in the Kwangtung province of China for schooling in brush use and calligraphy. He returned to Kuching in 1910. Sen always spoke of how the seeing a Japanese artist painting with watercolors had made an indelible impression on him.^[1]

He is widely known as the Father of Malaysian Painting. Although trained in formal Chinese brush painting and calligraphy in Kwangtung, China, as an artist he was drawn to watercolours and later oils.

Sen went to China in 1914. His painting during this visit were marked by a grandiose theme. He painted lions and tigers, images that were hugely popular with warlords of the time. He married Lam Sek Foong in 1916, and returned to Sarawak in 1917.^[1]

He settled in Penang in 1922, where he had his own art studios on Penang Road and later Northam Road.

Mun Sen is famous for his landscape paintings in watercolours, which incorporated influences from Chinese art resulting in more airy and generalised compositions rather than in more detailed or factual depictions. Since his death in 1962, his works have retained an important and honoured place in Malaysian Art.

He has two offsprings who follow in his footsteps, ChengWah and KhengWah. Both are well-established artists in their own media.

External links

[Yong Mun Sen - Penang Artists, http://www.penang-artists.com/YongMunSen.htm]
[Remembering Yong Mun Sen, http://www.igeorgetownpenang.com/features/656-remembering-yong-mun-sen]

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 "Yong Mun Sen". Artnet. Retrieved 8 February 2014.

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Name	Yong, Mun Sen
Alternative names
Short description	Malaysian painter
Date of birth	1896
Place of birth	Kuching
Date of death	1962
Place of death	Penang

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