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Victoria Peak
Huang Bore1958
Hong Kong Museum of Art
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
A landmark of Hong Kong, the Victoria Peak used to be called the "Red Censer Peak" before it was renamed by the British. A hike around the peak along the Lugard Road offers a captivating view of the Victoria Harbour, Lei Yue Mun in the east and the Green Island in the west. A descent southwards leads to the Pok Fu Lam Reservoir or the Aberdeen Reservoir via Keung Fa Kan. The blue-and-green landscape of Huang Bore's Victoria Peak of 1958 represents a traditional rendition of a section of a hillside pathway seen from the western end of the Lugard Road with the lighthouse of the Green Island in the distance.
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Details
- Title: Victoria Peak
- Creator Lifespan: 1901 - 1968
- Creator Nationality: Chinese
- Creator Gender: Male
- Creator Death Place: Hong Kong
- Creator Birth Place: Dongguan, Guandong province, China
- Date Created: 1958
- Theme: Landscape
- Physical Dimensions: w68.8 x h127.8 cm
- Painter: Huang Bore
- Location in the artwork: Victoria Peak, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
- History of Acquisition: The work was on display in the exhibition "A Eulogy of Hong Kong Landscape in Painting : The Art of Huang Bore" held by the Museum in 2008 and was acquired by the Museum from the Huang's family in 2010.
- Artist's Biography: Born in Dongguan and brought up in Guangzhou, Guangdong, Huang Bore (Wong Po-yeh) spent the latter part of his life in Hong Kong. He opted for the traditionalist camp and joined Zhao Haogong (1881 - 1949), Pan He (1873 - 1929) and others in the Guihai Painting Cooperative in 1923 when it was expanded to become the Guangdong Painting Research Society, then the largest art body in southern China. In 1926, Huang arrived in Hong Kong and founded the Hong Kong Chapter of the Guangdong Painting Research Society together with Pan Dawei (1881 - 1929), Deng Erya (1884 - 1954) and other artists relocated from Guangdong, in an attempt to kindle painting interest in the colony. From then on, Huang was very much a regular traveller between the two places. In 1940, he helped the Fung Ping Shan Library of The University of Hong Kong to curate the “Guangdong Heritage Exhibition”. In 1949, Huang came to Hong Kong again where he remained until his death in 1968. Over all those years, he continued to be actively involved in curating exhibitions, which numbered in dozens. Besides being a member of the Yuan Painting Society, the Ping Sheng Art Club and Gengzi Calligraphy and Painting Society, he wrote for a number of newspapers including the Sing Tao Daily, Wah Kiu Yat Po and Ta Kung Pao. Beginning from the early 1950s, he went hiking regularly with the Yung Sheh Hiking Club to the remotest spots of Hong Kong, taking in the views and capturing them in painting. In 1960, he held a solo exhibition “Paintings of Hong Kong” – which was to be the one and only throughout his life, and became one of the first painters ever to dedicate themselves to the depiction of the scenery of Hong Kong. Knowledgeable in Guangdong art and culture, Huang was invited to be an honorary adviser to the City Museum and Art Gallery (now Hong Kong Museum of Art) which was established in 1962 with the objective of collecting Guangdong art and artifacts. He not only helped build up the Museum’s collection in its infancy and advised enthusiastically on acquisitions, but also donated works of Guangdong masters that he had collected over the years. In his artistic exploration, Huang has broken the bounds of traditional ink painting by freely incorporating modern thoughts and ideas in his art, launching a new dimension for Hong Kong art that transcends time and space. His contribution to the reformation of traditional Chinese painting and his place in the history of art in modern China were recognized at a summit conference held by the Chinese Artists’ Association to coincide with the exhibition, “The World of Wong Po-yeh”, at the National Art Museum of China in Beijing in 1997 following its debut at the Art Museum of The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1995.
- Type: Ink and colour on paper
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