Indian painting, before the British, was an art of the princely courts, Hindu or Moslem, and reflected the culture of those courts. Now there are new patrons, of more limited interests; and nothing is sadder, in the recent history of Indian culture, than to see Indian painting, in its various schools, declining into East India Company art, tourist art…A vigorous art becomes imitative, second-rate, insecure (always with certain regional exceptions); it knows it cannot compete; it withers away, and is finally abolished by the camera.
Khang Ket (b.1951 Muar) studied from 1972-1974 at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Art in Singapore.
After graduating he worked for many years as art director and illustrator for advertising agencies in Singapore and Malaysia before becoming a full-time art teacher and artist in 2001.
