http://www.mudah.my/Oil+painting-31925429.htm
This is yet another IPWIS (I Paint What I See) painting by Chong Hon Fatt.
(The world is full of IPWIS painters who focus on craft at the expense of composition and concept. Why? Because composition and concept are often beyond their comprehension.)
The artist stood on a hill to the side of Kek Lok Si temple and painted exactly what he saw. This is pretty much what any tourist with a camera can do. A real artist would add something of himself or an original style to a make a work personal. But IPWIS painters can't.
Which begs the question, why do IPWIS painters continue to have the audacity to sell their paintings? After all, you wouldn't pay money for a tourist photo, so why would you pay anything for a tourist painting?









