https://flic.kr/p/Jjujv8   Cheong Soo Pieng - Two Maidens   Cheong Soo Pieng (Amoy, China, 1917 - Singapore, July 1, 1983) 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. The artist explained that as…
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