Blue Night 10－Tragic 1
| Artist | Tan Chin Kuan |
|---|---|
| Year | 1989 |
| Medium | acrylic on board, plank, wood, cloth and iron |
| Dimentions | 360×750×120 |
| Country | Malaysia |
| Collection no. | 179 |
| Explanation | Tan Chin Kuan is a Chinese-Malaysian artist who represented a new trend of Malaysian Art in the 1980s. This work is part of the ‘Blue Night’ series, which depicts the process of true human nature being revealed under a dim blue light. The white horse, a symbol of hope in the series, is driven to the bottom of the painting, and, instead, people with faces showing disquiet are depicted in the center. Although a man in a suit tries to escape from this strange world, outside the frame of the painting his body becomes nothing but a skeleton, a symbol that exposes the pain of living and the tragedy of the real world. |
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