TIMELESS INK CODE

If this is your first tattoo and you’re going in for your consultation, bring as many references as possible. It’s a waste of everyone’s time, and you probably won’t be welcomed back to that particular shop. There’s few things more frustrating for an artist to have a client who is flip-flopping with what they want (because even they don’t really know) and ends up turning down every suggestion as a consequence. If you go into a consultation and throw a bunch of contradicting ideas at an artist, they’re going to laugh you right out the door. Make sure you know what you’re looking for and what you want out of this tattoo before you approach any artists. While most artists are competent across several styles, there’s always one or two that specialise and give you the best outcome. If you want a particular style or image, use your social media Googling skills to find an artist that caters to what you are after. Even though tattoos and tattoo parlours are all over the place now, that doesn’t give you an excuse to get a shitty tattoo. Please please please for the love of Hades* do your research. While I am the last person to tell you not to get a tattoo because “you’ll have it forever” I can offer some tips on how you can make sure when you get your first tattoo, or your fiftieth tattoo, it’s not going to require a cover-up in five years time.

TIMELESS INK CODE

Rain Ceasing in Early Spring 暮春雨霁, Fan Chang Tien (Calligraphy by Wu Yongliang).Tattooing is one of the oldest art forms in the world, and one that the music industry wholly embraced from its earliest days.īut nowadays you don’t need to be a musician, a sailor, a prisoner or even an artsy person (is that code for wanker? – ed.) to be decked out in ink. Speakers: Mr Teo Han Wue, Mr Ho Sou Ping, Mrs Teresa Yao, and moderated by Mr Tan Yong Jun This exhibition will be complemented by a publication that catalogues the exhibited artworks, as well as a ticketed talk about the early Singapore art scene by Director and Founder of artcommune gallery, Mr. His students continue to dot Singapore’s canon of artists, including Ling Cher Eng, Nai Swee Leng, Lim Kay Hiong, Chua Ek Kay, Henri Chen Kezhan, and Chuan Keng Boon.

In Singapore, his continued practice in the Lingdong style (itself a regional take on the Shanghai School, Haipai, inflected with Lingnan aesthetics) and strong artistic lineage (his teacher Wang Geyi was then seen as the inheritor of the Haipai master, Wu Changshuo) led Fan to become a highly sought-after teacher for aspiring ink artists. With increasing unrest in China, Fan became one of many diasporic intellectuals that shaped overseas Chinese societies in the mid-20th century, moving first to Bangkok, Thailand, then Singapore. He founded the Lingdong School of Art in the 1930s with other prominent Teochew artists. The showcase features more than 20 artworks of various subjects completed between the 1950s and the 1980s by Singapore’s pioneer ink artist, Fan Chang Tien (1907–1987).īorn in Guangdong, China, Fan was among the group of Teochew intellectuals (including Professor Jao Tsung-I) that sought to combine regional pride with nationalist sentiment. Proudly presented by artcommune gallery, Fan Chang Tien: The Timeless Ink Heritage follows the success of the exhibition, Fan Chang Tien: Homecoming of a Heritage, which was held in August 2019 at the China International Cultural Exchange Centre (CICEC) in Beijing, China, under the auspices of the Singapore China Friendship Association and the CICEC.

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