Chen wen hsi biography of michael jackson

Chen Wen Hsi was a first generation Singapore artist and a seminal pioneer of the Nanyang style. A graduate of the Xinhua Academy of Fine Arts in Shanghai, Chen migrated to Singapore after World War II.

Here, he embarked on a career as an art teacher that saw him teaching at The Chinese High School and the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, and established an art practice that merged Western and Chinese art traditions in a distinctive aesthetic expression that went on to be hugely influential in Singapore art.

Born in Baigong village in Guangdong, China in , Chen Wen Hsi enrolled in the Shanghai College of Art in Two years later, he transferred to the Xinhua Academy of Fine Arts in Shanghai where he met Chen Chong Swee and Liu Kang, who would later become—together with him, Cheong Soo Pieng and Georgette Chen—influential pioneers of the Nanyang style when they moved to Singapore.

After graduation, he established an art practice, holding four solo exhibitions in Shanghai and Guangzho