Mid-Autumn Festival Art Exhibition 2019

Mid- Autumn Festival Art Exhibition 2019: A Time to Celebrate and Foster Friendship

月圆花好中秋节画展           

By Dr. Grace Choong Ai May

Mid-Autumn Festival is a much celebrated and observed festival in Penang as we see shops selling lanterns and mooncakes.  It is a season of reunion for families and we pay homage to our ancestors and the Goddess of Moon, Chang-E.  Children are happy to hold and play with lanterns.  Mid-autumn Festival is a time where the old school scholars wrote calligraphy, art and poems that was a sharing time to foster the relationship among family tie and friendship.  As artist, we express our feelings about this festival through our art. 

This exhibition is to display 40 artworks by 40 Malaysian artists.  There are paintings and drawings of different media.  Watercolour is a favourite medium among the Penang artists, we have watercolorists Alex Leong, Liau Sin Fah and Anthony Cheah to name a few.  Besides there are many artists who paint Chinese Brush paintings like Ang Tin Kean, Jin Toh, Jennifer Loo and others.  Artists Teh Ee Ming, Ong Ah Koy and Dr. Grace Choong who love to express this auspicious festival through acrylic.  Tim Teh who did an oil painting, Heng Chin Ching has created an oil pastel dan Chow Zhi Iong has created a colour pencil piece.  This art exhibition has showcased different genres of expression.  Colourful execution and expressive brush stokes are used to tell us the stories of Mid-Autumn Festival by each of the artists.

I wish everyone a meaningful Mid-Autumn Festival.  Those who stay afar must always come home to visit your elders and family.  Friends should gather more often to foster friendship and support.  More people indulge in art and art appreciation to make life a celebrating and memorable one!

Thank you.