Chin-Shek Lam
Chin Shek Lam was born in 1918 in China. Prior
to immigrating to Canada in 1970 he enjoyed a distinctive career
that included the founding of the Institute of Oriental Art in China
in 1944 and in 1949 the creation of the Institute of Oriental Art
in Hong Kong.
Chin Shek Lam's art is rooted in the ancient art
of Chinese calligraphy but he also incorporated Western techniques
and approaches after meeting Picasso, Miro, and many other western
artists. He enjoyed critical acclaim from those knowledgeable about
his kind of art in the “second half” of his amazing
career. Lam lived in Vancouver, Calgary and finally Toronto before
his death in 1990.
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