The final two pieces of my "Kowloon Walled City Series" have been fruitfully finished. For the last piece, I employed a lifeguard colleague to serve as my nude model. The whole experimentation began with pencil-drawing session of 1.5 hours for each piece, and I created two drawings based on the model. Then, the second part was a formal life description of the lifeguard model onto the 48" x 36" canvas, and the long pose lasted for one hour. After this Final Presentation, there will be still an "Oral Examination" at CUHK Art Museum before the grand opening ceremony of the CUHK Fine Arts MAFA Graduation Show.

1. FAA Creative Workshop (Prof. Lukas
TAM) – Final Presentation on 16 May 2022
LEE Kwun-leung Vincent
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MA Fine Arts Year 2
Semester 2

2. Do not mind being criticized
as painting “fruit punches”
• Expressionism = fruit punches
• Jacques Ranciere = playful hallucinations = fruit punches
• Walter Benjamin = story-telling art expression + remembrances with reflections
and reminiscences = fruit punches
• Example: Gustave Klimt’s paintings

3. Courageous Expressionism in
“Homecoming Dad” description
• Reference: Gustave Klimt’s “THE
FAMILY”
• Field-trip / Case-study reference:
Ancient Cannon at Almshouse of
Kowloon Walled City Park

4. Courageous
Expressionism in
“Homecoming
Dad” description • Reference: Greg
Girard’s photography
artworks from “City
of Darkness”

5. Kowloon Walled City Series (Version 8) – Homecoming Dad from
the Ancient Cannon (Size: 36” x 24”)
• Despite of the nuisances from the triad debtors, the little son trusts his Homecoming Dad as
being able to protect him during outdoor playing leisure as his dad is a muscular lifeguard
with commitments

6. Sensation on real body
nature of the subject
matter through
manifesting
“autofigurative
sentiments” from
Maurice Merleau-
Ponty’s theories
• References:
Tong King Sum’s
figure drawing
and Zhao
Gang’s nude
painting at
WKCD M+
Museum

7. Prof. Lui Chun Kwong’s way of
rendering figurative art
• “One kind of brushstrokes
for rendering one kind of
iconographies”
• Attaining a consistency
between the tone of the
background and the tone of
the subject matters
• Determined brushstrokes,
determined Expressionism,
précised vision, chiaroscuro,
avoidance on Photorealism

8. Began with pencil drawing
• Employed a lifeguard colleague as my nude model
• Time for each pencil drawing: 1.5 hours

9. Acrylic painting of
lifeguard model
• Reference: Egon Schiele
• Used a 48”x36” canvas for life
description
• Exaggerative sexual posture / Clumsy
background

10. Acrylic painting
of lifeguard
model
• Reference: Egon Schiele
• Dirty facial features /
Dark background

11. Kowloon Walled City Series (Version 9) –
Lifeguard’s Leisure without Air-conditioning

12. Anarchic Urbanism Series

13. Love Nourishment and Homecoming
Dad Series

14. Commuity
Service Series

15. Minimalist and
Non-Meritocracy
Livelihood Series