The artist may be defined as a poet – an image poet – and a cantor of the Malay nation. Allowing himself into the social realism current that was growing under its own practical and political value, Chua proudly offered his vision in the building of a Singaporean national epic, which in those years was growing in opposition to foreign domination. His vivid oils on canvas ooze charisma, nation, belonging, and patriotism.
