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Article: Chinese brush painting exhibition by Italian artist
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Subhadra Devan
New Straits Times
05-23-2002
Chinese brush painting exhibition by Italian artist
Byline: Subhadra Devan
Edition: 2*
A LOVE of painting, sparked when she was a child, led Italian Anna Caracuta to learn the art of Chinese brush painting under Prof Chong Cheng Chuan, president of the Malaysia Chinese Ink Painting Society, back in 1998.
She progressed well enough in the traditional art to be able to hold a fortnight-long exhibition at Badan Warisan Malaysia in Jalan Stonor, Kuala Lumpur.
For the exhibition entitled An Italian Eye on Asia, which ends tomorrow, she is displaying more than 50 works on silk and rice paper.
This is not the 39-year-old Lecce-born artist's first show. ...