Yong mun sen biography of michael

          Yong, who died in , was born years ago to descendants of Chinese immigrants in Kuching, Sarawak.

          Yong Mun Sen was born in Kuching Sarawak at a coconut plantation..

          Yong Mun Sen

          Yong Mun Sen (10 January 1896[1] – 1962) was a Malaysian artist and one of the founder of Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts in Singapore, then Malaya.

          Born Yong Yen Lang in Kuching, Sarawak, he changed his name to Yong Mun Sen in 1922.

          Early life

          Born in Kuching, Sarawak where his father ran a coconut estate, in 1901 Sen went to Dabu County in Meizhou City, Kwangtung (now Guangdong) Province in China for schooling in brush use and calligraphy and returned to Kuching in 1910.

          To some historians, Yong Mun Sen is one of the earliest pioneer artists in the Nanyang.

        1. Yong was the first Malaysian to exhibit nude paintings and the first to have paintings auctioned outside of Southeast Asia.
        2. Yong Mun Sen was born in Kuching Sarawak at a coconut plantation.
        3. Born in Kuching, Sarawak, Yong (birth name Yen Lang) studied Chinese classics and calligraphy after moving to his ancestral village of Tai-Pu.
        4. The self-taught artist, born years ago, was fond of capturing seascapes and landscapes, an instinct that only deepened during stays in.

          5. Sen always spoke of how seeing a Japanese artist painting with watercolors had made an indelible impression on him.[2]

          He is widely known as the Father of Malaysian Painting.[2] Although trained in formal Chinese brush painting and calligraphy in China, as an artist he was drawn to watercolours and later oils.

          Sen returned to China in 1914. His paintings during this visit were marked by a grandiose theme. He painted lions and tigers, images t