[Bigiron]

红头巾吸烟壁画惹议 美国画家：愿意修改壁画
https://www.8world.com/singapore/chinato...ge-2494951

[Buffybuffy]

https://youtu.be/ZMM3fIkcXbk?si=ivLQU772fOGUZbTz

[Manthink]

洋人啊,  洋人...

[FangFang]

Last time smoke but not all lah

[WhatDoYouThink!]

Not just the cigarette but the entire painting isn't right

[Manthink]

This SMELLY IGNORANT Chao Angmoh has been living and working here for  many years.

And yet  still does not understand our History and Culture...


Background
Samsui women, also known as hong tou jin (红头巾) after their trademark red headgear where Chinese immigrants mainly from the Sanshui (“Samsui” in Cantonese; meaning “three waters”) district of Canton (Guangdong today) province in southern China.

Our not so longer past - 7 Nov 1987, three Samsui women who worked on the construction of the Bishan MRT station were invited for Singapore’s first MRT ride


https://www.nlb.gov.sg/main/article-deta...2f6a028bf3

[Manthink]

Not just the cigarette but the entire painting isn't right

Had this American Mr Sean Dunston did the same insult against local History and Culture in China, M'sia or Thailand, he would be deported the very next day liao...

[watchfirst9]

This SMELLY IGNORANT Chao Angmoh has been living and working here for  many years.

And yet  still does not understand our History and Culture...


Background
Samsui women, also known as hong tou jin (红头巾) after their trademark red headgear where Chinese immigrants mainly from the Sanshui (“Samsui” in Cantonese; meaning “three waters”) district of Canton (Guangdong today) province in southern China.

Our not so longer past - 7 Nov 1987, three Samsui women who worked on the construction of the Bishan MRT station were invited for Singapore’s first MRT ride


https://www.nlb.gov.sg/main/article-deta...2f6a028bf3

He may not know, problem more on URA officials.

[Manthink]

He may not know, problem more on URA officials.

URA did NOT gave approval for the painting...and the Angomh proceed to do it.

[WhatDoYouThink!]

把红头巾画成酱，破坏性不大，但侮辱性极强

[watchfirst9]

URA did NOT gave approval for the painting...and the Angomh proceed to do it.

Like that, angmoh should pay for it. 
Authorities need to learn from it.

[Manthink]

Like that, angmoh should pay for it. 
Authorities need to learn from it.

But hor Mr Sean Dunston 不爽...he KBKP on IG that he calling SG for censorshpi and lack of artistic freedom...

I am not surprise some Westerns often cause problems to the locals whenever and where ever they reside.

[Sticw]

It actually shows how shallow our govt can be.

The picture shows a hard labourer and frankly in that period of history everyone smokes. For hard labourers, smoking is but a form of escape from reality.

Asking the artist to change it is like rewriting history and trying to make everything look nice. Fallacy and simply lack of authenticity.

It's like saying there's no crime, no vices and Singapore is perfectly clean. If so please ban sale of cigarettes and don't need to collect taxes on it since you ban sales of it.

[Manthink]

It actually shows how shallow our govt can be.  The picture shows a hard labourer and frankly in that period of history everyone smokes. For hard labourers, smoking is but a form of escape from reality. Asking the artist to change it is like rewriting history and trying to make everything look nice. Fallacy and simply lack of authenticity. It's like saying there's no crime, no vices and Singapore is perfectly clean. If so please ban sale of cigarettes and don't need to collect taxes on it since you ban sales of it.

Which part of the Mr Dunston painting (which he named "Samsui woman at rest" has any histroical value in SG context ?

That she is slim, fair, pretty and smoke like seductive prostitute when looking at an angmoh   ?

[WhatDoYouThink!]

煙視媚行 that's how the painting was trying to portray the sansui women. It's rather inappropriate

[Manthink]

...perhaps Mr Dunston has problem finding Historial evidence showing Samsui women not at rest ...but at work in a construction site which many SGreans grown up knowing and seen photos like this..

The American had been living in SG for nearly 20 years...and yet he seems to be living in another world on this Island.

[Manthink]

煙視媚行 that's how the painting was trying to portray the sansui women. It's rather inappropriate

Mr Dunston's latest controversial art work is worst than inappropriate.
What he has done is to romantise a well-known legacy of Singapore's history while ignoring many historical FACTS why these women came to colonial SG in the 1930s when China was invaded by Japan. Basically they are not unlike many immigrants from China whom many of us are their descendants and families.

No surprisingly the American attempt to justify his work by claiming he found "sources" of pretty-looking Samsui women puffing cigarettes when these women left their family to put food on the table. Has anyone seen him proving his source to backup his claim that Samsui women have time to rest and $ to spent on Dunhill ?