Kan Kit-Keung is simultaneously a physicist and a devoted painter. He had received training in traditional Chinese ink painting from noted masters including the exponent of the Lingnan School of Painting, Gao Qifeng, after his move to Hong Kong in 1957. His subsequent move to the United States for further study in physics helped nurture new artistic ideas. This monograph presents paintings done by Kan Kit-Keung in the period 1964-1986. Landscape is the main subject and Kan’s rendering of mountains and hills is distinctive. He uses flat shapes, which look like ‘cut-out’ forms, to evoke the solidity of mountains, hills and mounds. Many of these forms are modulated from light to dark in tone, so that they read concurrently as flat and as three dimensional. A chronology of the artist is included in this publication.
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MON.KKK
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Chinese - Traditional, 

English

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1986

No of pages

61

No of copies

2

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artist monograph

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Walk to the Source of the Stream and Sit Down to Watch the Clouds Rise - Wucius WONG, 王無邪

Kit-Keung Kan's Elemental Landscapes - Mary McCOY

Paintings by Kit-Keung Kan
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Paintings by Kit-Keung Kan, 靳杰強畫集