{{Short description|Postmodern painting by Luise Fong}} {{Use New Zealand English|date=June 2025}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2025}}{{Infobox artwork | title = Minor | other_title_1 = Minor (triptych) | artist = Luise Fong | year = 1994 | medium = Ink, acrylic and gouache on wooden doors | dimensions = 206 cm x 204 cm (102.75 in x 80.3 in) | city = Auckland | owner = The Fletcher Trust | website = https://fletchercollection.org.nz/artworks/minor-triptych/ }}
'''''Minor''''' is an postmodern painting by a Malaysian born New Zealand artist Luise Fong that won the Premier Award at the Visa Gold Art Award in 1994.
== History == Visa Gold Art Award were held at the City Gallery Wellington, from 13 August to 5 September 1994.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Minor (triptych) |url=https://fletchercollection.org.nz/artworks/minor-triptych/ |access-date=2025-06-14 |website=The Fletcher Trust Collection |language=en}}</ref> The awards was the biggest art prize in New Zealand at the time. 1994 was the only year where there were two winners of the Premier Award, Fong was joint-winners of the Premier Award with Bill Hammond.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Visa Gold Art Awards |url=https://christchurchartgallery.org.nz/exhibitions/visa-gold-art-awards |access-date=2025-06-14 |website=christchurchartgallery.org.nz}}</ref>
== Description == This triptych is representative of her artistic practice, exploring delicate surfaces that may stem from her background as a textile designer. During this period, Fong created her paintings on doors, giving them a relatable scale in relation to the human body. The doors are adorned with blots, stains, and holes, creating a dynamic visual experience that never allows the viewer's eye to rest. These elements contribute to a distinctive fluidity in her work, which is intentionally perceived as feminine, especially in contrast to the hard-edge abstraction often associated with her male predecessors. The musical title reinforces the emotional response elicited from the viewer.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last=Gregory |first=Burke |title=Cultural Safety: Contemporary Art from New Zealand |publisher=Erste Auflage |year=1995 |isbn=0-908818-30-0 |location=Germany |pages=51}}</ref>
Fong and Bill Hammond can be seen posing together in a photograph in The Press newspaper about the Visa Gold Art Awards.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1994-08-24 |title=Hammond and Fong share art award |url=https://collections.library.auckland.ac.nz/inzart/item/532051 |work=The Press |location=Christchurch}}</ref> Fong and ''Minor'' can be seen in The Dominion newspaper.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1994-08-13 |title=Art on show |url=https://collections.library.auckland.ac.nz/inzart/item/530986 |work=The Dominion |location=Wellington}}</ref>
The painting was also part of the exhibition ''Cultural Safety: Contemporary Art from New Zealand'', in Frankfurter Kunstverein in Germany (1995), and City Gallery Wellington in New Zealand (1995–1996).<ref name=":1" />
''Minor'' is held in the collection of Fletcher Trust in Auckland, New Zealand.<ref name=":0" />
== References == <references /> Category:Contemporary works of art Category:Postmodern art Category:New Zealand art Category:1994 paintings Category:Asian-New Zealand culture