[Digital Exhibition 網上展覽] Painting Across The Threshold: Ng Lung Wai 跨閾繪畫：伍龍威

[Digital Exhibition 網上展覽] Painting Across The Threshold: Ng Lung Wai 跨閾繪畫：伍龍威 While archaeologists and historians have yet determined the origin of painting, ancient men and women used color in decoration and ornamentation by scratching the outlines of people and animals upon slate and bone. Traces of this kind of primitive work still remain to us on the pottery and stone implements of the cave dwellers.Today, painting is generally understood as the creation of certain aesthetic qualities in a two-dimensional visual language. Elements of this visual language—colors, lines, textures, and shapes—are applied in various ways to create visual forms of light, space, movement, and contrast on a flat surface. These elements are combined into expressive patterns in order to represent real or imaginary phenomena, to interpret a narrative theme, or to create wholly abstract images.Painting is the theme of the inaugural section of UMAG_STArts, and the recently acquired work by the Hong Kong artist Ng Lung Wai will be displayed as the highlight of the thematically-focused exhibition at our newly refurbished study gallery. The medium and technique of Wai’s painting, as well as the way the work was created, daringly challenge the traditional boundaries of the painted art, interrogating and altering our perceptions of paining as a convention of art. This digital learning platform not only contains an essay about the development of painting in China through the UMAG collection and a biographical account of Ng Lung Wai, but also includes a pre-recorded interview with the artist Ng Lung Wai and the process of his creative practice.View the Digital Exhibition here: https://www.starts.umag.hku.hk/painting儘管考古和歷史學家尚未確定繪畫最初的起源，人類從史前時代便開始運用不同色彩，在岩板和骨頭上刻劃各種人和動物的輪廓裝飾，而一些洞穴居民的陶器和石器上仍然保留了這種原始藝術的痕跡。時至今日，繪畫通常被理解為一個以平坦的表面作為支撐面，並加上各種美學元素的視覺語言。繪畫創作包含一系列視覺元素，各種紋理質感，設色，線條和形狀，以不同方式交融疊襯，在二維表面上營造出光線、空間、動態和對比等視覺刺激與感受。 這些元素交織和組合出各種視覺表達模式，以再現真實或虛構的現象、演釋敘事主題或建構出完全抽象的圖像。繪畫是「香港大學美術博物館＿藝創啟動: Learn with UMAG」企劃開幕部分的專題項目，而由香港藝術家伍龍威創作的新入藏作品將會是展覽的亮點。伍龍威獨特的創作方式和技巧，大膽挑戰了繪畫藝術的傳統界限，改變了我們對繪畫作為一種藝術形式的看法。這個數碼學習平台不但包含一篇關於中國繪畫歷史發展的文章及藝術家的生平紀錄，還會在稍後上傳與藝術家伍龍威的預錄訪談及其創作過程錄像。到此瀏覽網上展覽：https://www.starts.umag.hku.hk/painting Date/Time: 01/07/2025 to 30/06/2026 00:00-23:59 Venue: Online Organized by: University Museum and Art Gallery

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