Paintings unveiled in tribute to S'pore's pioneering leaders
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By Lynda Hong | Posted: 07 December 2010 2108 hrs
SINGAPORE: Ten paintings were unveiled on Tuesday to remember Singapore's founding fathers.
To put them together, about 5,000 fingerprints were collected.
Phase by phase, the 10 paintings came to symbolise the first 10 Cabinet Ministers of the Singapore Government.
The 10 leaders are Mr Lee Kuan Yew, Dr Toh Chin Chye, Dr Goh Keng Swee, Mr S Rajaratnam, Mr Ong Pang Boon, Mr Yong Nyuk Lin, Mr Lim Kim San, Mr Jek Yuen Thong, Mr Othman Wok and Mr E W Barker.
For each of the 10 canvasses in the "Live our Dreams" community project, some 500 fingerprints belonging to Singaporeans from all walks of life were collected.
Artists, including the award-winning 10-year-old painter Janice Yap, then worked on their interpretations of the fingerprints.
"Each fingerprint belongs to a person who makes the Singapore we know now - possible," said Janice.
The 10-year-old started painting when she was two-and-a-half-year-old and became an award-winning artist at the age of three. She has also won numerous local and international awards like the UOB Painting of the Year in 2003, 2004, and the recent 2010 competition. To date, she has held five solo art exhibitions.
The completed works were presented on Tuesday to the Ministers and their family members at the Arts House.
Among those at the event was Mr Othman Wok who was Minister of Culture and Social Affairs in the founding Cabinet.
Organisers hope the project will help young understand know our pioneers.
Wu Shouyi, who is the grandson of Dr Goh Keng Swee, said: "Besides textbooks that we have gone through, I guess, not many people, if you go around the street and ask them who is Dr Goh (Keng Swee), not many people would actually know.
"It does embody my grandfather as someone as a being a commoner, because he is being portrayed as what I think is a common sweeper. He didn't really sing praises about himself and he didn't want people to sing praises of himself."
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pioneering leaders should be Tan Tock Seng or Hajjah Fatimah or William Pickering
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Originally posted by Clivebenss:
The 10 leaders are Mr Lee Kuan Yew, Dr Toh Chin Chye, Dr Goh Keng Swee, Mr S Rajaratnam, Mr Ong Pang Boon, Mr Yong Nyuk Lin, Mr Lim Kim San, Mr Jek Yuen Thong, Mr Othman Wok and Mr E W Barker.
Jek Yeun Thong (b. 1930, Singapore - ), former Minister for Labour, Minister for Culture and Minister for Science and Technology, and diplomat. He was part of the People's Action Party's Old Guard of politicians.While studying at Chinese High School, Jek was the leader of a student union and editor of a wall newspaper. He was also involved with the Anti-British League and a student communist cell, although he would later drift away from this end of the political spectrum.
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More like PAP founders.
Where is Devan Nair?
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Devan Nair disappeared from Singapore history after he split from Harry Lee Kuan Yew.
This is how PAP manipulates our history.
All distorted biased propaganda bullshit.
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Singapore history = LKY's autobiography.