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Kar-wai Wong, (demo) by Mark Andres

  • Title: Kar-wai Wong, (demo)
  • Artist: Mark Andres
  • Medium: Acrylic on panel
  • Size: 18"h x 24"w
  • Creation date: 2017
  • Added to collection: 2017
  • Donor: On loan from artist
  • Campus: Rock Creek
  • Location: B3/2 Administration office

A still from the acclaimed 2000 film In the Mood For Love by Hong Kong director Kar-wai Wong served as the source material for Andres' demonstration painting of three values in a limited, red orange palette.  The film, set in British Hong Kong in the early 1960's, has a strong sense of place and time, including the distinctive dress (called a qipao) worn by the actress Maggie Cheung, and fashionable in Hong Kong at that time.