Article by Redza Piyadasa Extract from Masterpieces From The National Art Gallery of Malaysia "Where There Is Life, There Is Hope" by Goh Ah Ang, 1996 Goh Ah Ang is an artist trained in the Chinese mode of painting and he was initially involved with traditional brush painting techniques. In recent years he has become well-known for his delicately rendered ant paintings. Using textured rice paper as a base, his colonies of busy worker ants are minutely and painstakingly rendered, one by one, with the aid of a very fine pen. The tiny ants are spread out on the white base and highlight the empty void of the white paper surface. There is a sense of busy movement and activity as the ants move in different directions across the paper surface. The inherent qualities of traditional Chinese painting values, with its emphasis on technical dexterity and black and white contrast, have lent to Goh’s paintings a contemplative quality. The viewer is inclined to study each minutely rendere...
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不论黑鸦红鸦,
懂得反哺的都是好鸦。
好鸦不在于外表毛色。
自然界中,
乌鸦的黑不是染成的;
白鸽的白也不是洗得的。
尊重自然天成,珍惜自己的羽毛。
What you give, you get.
-Dale Carnegie-
艺中有鸿。
‘黑白’有情。