FAA Creative Workshop (Prof.

Lukas
TAM) – Final Presentation on 16 May 2022

LEE Kwun-leung Vincent

1007070165
MA Fine Arts Year 2
Semester 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
 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
 Courageous
Expressionism in
“Homecoming
Dad” description • Reference: Greg
Girard’s photography
artworks from “City
of Darkness”
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
 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
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
 Began with pencil drawing
• Employed a lifeguard colleague as my nude model
• Time for each pencil drawing: 1.5 hours
 Acrylic painting of
lifeguard model
• Reference: Egon Schiele
• Used a 48”x36” canvas for life
description
• Exaggerative sexual posture / Clumsy
background
Acrylic painting
of lifeguard
model

• Reference: Egon Schiele

• Dirty facial features /
Dark background
 Kowloon Walled City Series (Version 9) –
Lifeguard’s Leisure without Air-conditioning
Anarchic Urbanism Series
Love Nourishment and Homecoming
Dad Series
 Commuity
Service Series
 Minimalist and
Non-Meritocracy
Livelihood Series