#Hong Kong art

[thunderstruck9]

Stephen Wong Chun Hei (Hong Kong, 1986), The Study of the Sky, 2018. Acrylic on paper, 112.5 x 117 cm.

[artofgaryyeung]

A portrait sketch of Tony Leung, the first Hong Kong actor to win the lifetime achievement award at Venice Film Festival.

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[liulyam]

Happy Together

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3/4, part of a series of illustrations for Pride. A movie poster based on the film “Happy Together” directed by Wong Kar-Wai

[hoshikarin]

Egg tart 🤍🥚💛

[miamaimania]

꩜ Sleeper Awake: Paik's iconoclastic TV Bed (1972-1991) ➤

[fartshitter9000]

yo yo yo mista kirkland

[ashyseapancake]

Hong Kong high schooler Miku 🇭🇰

[archiveofaffinities]

Hong Kong

[sorrysomethingwentwrong]

Kowloon City: An Illustrated Guide,

At its height in the 1990s, Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong housed about 50,000 people. Its population is unremarkable for small cities, but what set Kowloon apart from others of its size was its density. Spanning only 2.6 hectares, the tiny enclave contained 1,255,000 people per square kilometer, making it the densest city in the world.

Kowloon was built as a small military fort around the turn of the 20th century. When the Chinese and English governments abandoned it after World War II, the area attracted refugees and people in search of affordable housing. With no single architect, the urban center continued to grow as people stacked buildings on top of one another and tucked new structures in between existing ones to accommodate the growing population without expanding beyond the original fort’s border.

With only a small pocket of community space at the center, Kowloon quickly morphed into a labyrinth of shops, services, and apartments connected by narrow stairs and passageways through the buildings. Rather than navigate the city through alleys and streets, residents traversed the structures using slim corridors that always seemed to morph, an experience that caused many to refer to Kowloon as “a living organism.”

The city devolved into a slum with crime and poor living conditions and was razed in 1994. Before demolition, though, a team of Japanese researchers meticulously documented the architectural marvel, which had become a sort of cyberpunk icon that even inspired a gritty arcade as tribute.

Courtesy: Hitomi Terasawa

[undr]

Fan Ho. Hong Kong, 1950s

[thunderstruck9]

Carmen Ng (Hong Kong, 1988, Playground, 2020. Watercolour and coloured pencil on paper, 53 x 37 cm.

[artofgaryyeung]

Watercolour and ink on paper, a drinking buffalo! Buffaloes were once working animals for farmers in Hong Kong but today they are all feral. As they are water-loving animals, they love to stay close to rivers, ponds and wetland areas! I added a little egret as well, a bird which can be seen hanging out with these buffaloes and also a water-loving bird! #water #waterpainting #watercolourandink

[wacca005]

Neon Streets 🌃🚕🌃

We crossed Paths after the rain.

[sketchytea]

my piece for the @hws-anthology! it's the gang enjoying some spicy street hotpot on a humid summer's evening 🍲

thanks to the mods for their enduring patience, and for pulling this off. i'm happy to have participated in something like this with so many friends and creators i admire 🧡

[putagal]

grandpa yao it's okay you'll get there

[tidapencil]

When you close your eyes

Is it her that you see

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