Cheong Soo Pieng
Visual Artist
1917 – 1983
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Who was Cheong Soo Pieng?
Cheong Soo Pieng was a Singaporean artist who was a pioneer of the Nanyang art style, and a driving force to the development of Modernism in visual art in the early 20th-century Singapore. He was also known for his signature depiction of Southeast Asian indigenous tribal people with elongated limbs and torso, almond-shaped faces and eyes in his paintings.
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- Born
- 1917
Xiamen - Nationality
- Singapore
- Profession
- Died
- Jul 1, 1983
Singapore
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on July 23, 2013
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