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NN Gallery is proud to present an exhibition and book launch of “Life Drawings from Chelsea Days c1958-1962” by important Malaysian artist Yeoh Jinleng from 22nd November – 13th December 2008.
These drawings are studies of the nude done during his four year course at the Chelsea School of Art in London, from 1958 to 1962.
The human figure is the most difficult object to draw because it represents not only anatomical problems of form and structure, but also movement even when the figure is sitting or lying still. There is a movement within in any pose or stance that affects the outer layers of flesh and muscle forms constituting the body. Until the internal structure of the anatomy and how movement within the skeletal structure affects the outer muscle and sinew forms are understood, no artist will be able to draw the human figure with satisfactory conviction.
To quote from Jinleng’s essay for the exhibition: The Moving Body; “Cennino Chenini (14th century AD) stressed on the importance of drawing for an artist’s training. He considered it as the ‘triumphal arch to painting. Vasari (1511-74), the art historian, considered drawing ‘the father of all the arts….as it reveals the hand of the artist at its most spontaneous and intuitive.’”
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