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4. Funded Research Projects

seminar and talk on Chen to promote his contribution in Hong Kong art history.

The Principal Investigator will explore funding opportunity from Knowledge
Transfer in HKBU, Arts Development Council, etc. for this project. And through
collaboration with these organisations, the investigator will conduct various

seminars and talks to promote the project, making public awareness of the

significance of Chen’s art.

4.32 A Survey of Western Media Art in Pre-1960s Hong
Kong (on-going project)

Principal Investigator: Dr. Jack Lee

Research Assistant Professor, Cross-Cultural Studies
Working Group of LEWI

Source of Funding: HKMA, HK
Amount Awarded: HKD575,000

Brief Introduction:

This research project aims to investigate the development of western media art
in Hong Kong, from the early 1930s to the pre-1960s when oil painting and

sculpture became major art forms practiced by most young artists, in particular
amongst those who received formal art training aboard and returned to Hong

Kong during the early 1930s. The rapid growth and interest in western media
art in Hong Kong before the 1960s is significant to the art development of the

place since it does not only witness the influx of western ideas and knowledge
brought by returning Chinese artists, it also triggered off the study of such media

by many local young artists during the time when Hong Kong was increasingly
open to the rest of the world through international trade.

Early Hong Kong artists who specialised in western medium art, including Li Tiefu,
Yee Bon, Lee Byng, Wong Chiu Foon, T P Chui, Luis Chan, Wong Siu Ling, Ng Po

Wan, Chan Shek Kwan, Leung Chuk Ting to name a few, became the major
figures to promote such painting and sculpture in Hong Kong since the 1930s.

However, academic study of these artists and their works has been lacking. Apart
from the exhibitions on Wong Siu Ling and Lee Byng held by the Hong Kong

Museum of Art, and the ones on Li Tiefu and Yee Bon by the Hong Kong Art
Centre in the 1990s, it seems that the study of western medium art has been

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