Flesh And Blood

"STILL ALIVE, STILL KICKING" is how Wong Keen replies to the standard greeting of "How do you do?" At 76, the veteran painter has lived a storied life that includes studying under Singapore art pioneers Liu Kang and Chen Wen Hsi when he was a boy, and then moving to New York at the tail end of the Abstract Expressionist movement led by Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko to study under other great teachers.

Wong would himself become Singapore's f…