PERSONAL PICS GALLERIES

FREDDY LIEW YU SHIN ARTIST PROFILE

ARTIST 'S PROFILE

FULL NAME : FREDDY LIEW YU SHIN

D.O.B : 25 FEBRUARY 1981

INTRESTS : ARTS EDUCATION

DIGITAL MEDIA, LARGE SCALE

 ART PRINTINGS

QUALIFICATIONS :

BACHELOR OF EDUCATION (ARTS)

WITH HONOURS- UNIVERSITY

EDUCATION SULTAN IDRIS

(2001-2005)

WORK EXPERIENCE :  AS A ARTS PUBLICIST AND INTERNSHIP BASED AT KUCHING, SARAWAK

(2001 - PRESENT)

Tew Nai Tong Pass Away Peacefully in 2013

The Malaysian art scene recently suffered a great loss when Tew Nai Tong passed away on May 4th. The late artist’s works have been an inspiration to many artists who came after him.

Nai Tong died from an aggravated lung infection at the age of 77 and this is a great loss to the industry who in recent years have been in need of a revamp and a revisit to the old school of artists and their own unique signatures.Nai Tong is a graduate of the prestigious Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts in Singapore where he is widely regarded as one of the last members of the Nanyang Style ‘Matinee Heroes’.Anyone who has seen any of Nai Tong’s paintings would agree that this is a man who has his own way of art. His first solo show was in Kuala Lumpur back in 1964 and since then, he has fine-tuned his strokes and created a persona for him and his passion. Today, artists no longer paint their passion with their own trademark techniques. They simply follow others and improve on them.Truly, Nai Tong is one of the few Malaysian artists who have changed the landscape of Malaysian art. He will surely be remembered and his works, forever enshrined in the hearts of all who loved our culture and art.

ABOUT MINIMAL ARTS

Minimalism in visual art, generally referred to as "minimal art", literalist art  and ABC Art emerged in New York in the early 1960s. Initially minimal art appeared in New York in the 60s as new and older artists moved toward geometric abstraction; exploring via painting in the cases of Frank Stella, Kenneth Noland, Al Held, Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Ryman and others; and sculpture in the works of various artists including David Smith, Anthony Caro, Tony Smith, Sol LeWitt, Carl Andre, Dan Flavin, Donald Judd and others. Judd's sculpture was showcased in 1964 at the Green Gallery in Manhattan as were Flavin's first fluorescent light works, while other leading Manhattangalleries like the Leo Castelli Gallery and the Pace Gallery also began to showcase artists focused on geometric abstraction. In addition there were two seminal and influential museum exhibitions: Primary Structures: Younger American and British Sculpture' shown from April 27 - June 12, 1966 at the Jewish Museum in New York, organized by the museum's Curator of Painting and Sculpture, Kynaston McShine  and Systemic Painting, at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum curated by Lawrence Alloway also in 1966 that showcased Geometric abstraction in the American art world via Shaped canvas, Color Field, and Hard-edge painting.In the wake of those exhibitions and a few others the art movement called minimal art emerged.

In a more broad and general sense, one finds European roots of minimalism in the geometric abstractions of painters associated with the Bauhaus, in the works of Kazimir Malevich, Piet Mondrian and other artists associated with the De Stijl movement, and the Russian Constructivist movement, and in the work of the Romanian sculptor Constantin Brâncuși. Minimal art is also inspired in part by the paintings of Barnett Newman, Ad Reinhardt, Josef Albers, and the works of artists as diverse as Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, Giorgio Morandi, and others. Minimalism was also a reaction against the painterly subjectivity of Abstract Expressionism that had been dominant in the New York School during the 1940s and 1950s.

Artist and critic Thomas Lawson noted in his 1977 catalog essay Last Exit: Painting, minimalism did not reject Clement Greenberg's claims about modernist painting's  reduction to surface and materials so much as take his claims literally. According to Lawson minimalism was the result, even though the term "minimalism" was not generally embraced by the artists associated with it, and many practitioners of art designated minimalist by critics did not identify it as a movement as such.One of the first artists specifically associated with minimalism was the painter, Frank Stella, whose early "pinstripe" paintings were included in the 1959 show, 16 Americans, organized by Dorothy Miller at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The width of the stripes in Frank Stellas's pinstripe paintings were determined by the dimensions of the lumber used for stretchers, visible as the depth of the painting when viewed from the side, used to construct the supportive chassis upon which the canvas was stretched. The decisions about structures on the front surface of the canvas were therefore not entirely subjective, but pre-conditioned by a "given" feature of the physical construction of the support. In the show catalog, Carl Andre noted, "Art excludes the unnecessary. Frank Stella has found it necessary to paint stripes. There is nothing else in his painting." These reductive works were in sharp contrast to the energy-filled and apparently highly subjective and emotionally-charged paintings of Willem de Kooning or Franz Kline and, in terms of precedent among the previous generation of abstract expressionists, leaned more toward the less gestural, often somber, color field paintings of Barnett Newman and Mark Rothko.

Remembrance Datuk Ibrahim Hussein

KUALA LUMPUR: Datuk Ibrahim Hussein, Malaysia’s world icon artist, died early yesterday morning at 3.50. He was 22 days short of his 73rd birthday on March 13.Ib, as he was affectionately known, was buried at the Bukit Kiara cemetery on Thursday. He leaves behind Sim, his wife and soul-mate of 35 years, and daughter Alia, 30.

The widely-recognised artist is perhaps better known outside Malaysia, with one international critic describing his abstract work as “futuristic and it is through a distinctive ordering of lines that he expresses differing complexities of form and dimensions.”Ib used a medium he called “‘printage”’ - a mixture of printing and collage.He was also founder of the Ibrahim Hussein Museum and Cultural Foundation in Langkawi.Ib created an extraordinary legacy of paintings over a half century revolving around his life and humanity, events and personalities.He created his own museum-in-the-rainforest, the Ibrahim Hussein Cultural Foundation Museum, in Pulau Langkawi, a rare “living” museum then by a living artist.It was launched together with the first Langkawi International Arts Festival, which he single-handledly organised, in 2000.

With the help of his wife Sim, he had also organised the Club Mediterranee Asian Arts Fest in Bali, Indonesia (1987), and in Cherating, Kuantan (1988).Ib is perhaps the most decorated among Malaysian artists - triple Datukships, World Economic Forum’s Crystal Award (1997), the Japan Foundation Cultural Award (1988), Venezuela’s Order of Andres Bello (1993), Chile’s Order of Bernardo O’Higgins (1996) and the Anugerah Tokoh Melayu Terbilang (2007).

ABOUT COMPUTER ARTS

Computer art is any in which computers played a role in production or display. Such art can be an image, sound, animation, video, CD-ROM, DVD, video game, website, algorithm, performance or gallery installation. Many traditional disciplines are now integrating digital technologies and, as a result, the lines between traditional works of art and new media works created using computers have been blurred. For instance, an artist may combine traditional painting with algorithmic art and other digital techniques. As a result, defining computer art by its end product can be difficult. Nevertheless, this type of art is beginning to appear in art museum exhibits, though it has yet to prove its legitimacy as a form unto itself and this technology is widely seen in contemporary art more as a tool rather than a form as with painting.

Computer usage has blurred the distinctions between illustrators, photographers, photo editors, 3-D modelers, and handicraft artists. Sophisticated rendering and editing software has led to multi-skilled image developers. Photographers may become digital artists. Illustrators may become animators. Handicraft may be computer-aided or use computer-generated imagery as a template. Computer clip art usage has also made the clear distinction between visual arts and page layout less obvious due to the easy access and editing of clip art in the process of paginating a document, especially to the unskilled observer..

ABOUT DIGITAL PRINT MAKING

Digital prints refers to images printed using a digital printer instead of a traditional printing press. These images can be printed to a variety of substrates including paper, cloth, or plastic canvas. Accurate color reproduction and the type of ink used (see below) are key to distinguishing high quality from low quality digital prints. Metallics (silvers, golds) are particularly difficult to reproduce accurately because they reflect light back to digital scanners. High quality digital prints typically are reproduced with very high-resolution data files with very high-precision printers. The substrate used has an effect on the final colors and cannot be ignored when selecting a color palette.The computer is an amazing and unique new tool for making prints. It doesn’t replace the traditional methods of printmaking, nor does it make the processes bringing photographic information into prints and for creating four color process images.The basic principles outlined here may be used in conjunction with Polyester Plate Lithography, or ImagOn film (intaglio). The most obvious printmaking technique to be used with digital imaging software is Screenprinting. You may either output digital images onto clear transparencies (for Screenprinting or ImagOn film) or directly onto Polyester Plates. Keep in mind that the software for digital imaging changes constantly - pay attention to the concepts in this book because the details have probably already changed