Dr. Lai Kui-Fang (60), world-class artist, portraitist & sculptor, and Paris-trained French scholar and holder of Knight/Officer of the French Order of Arts & Letters by the French government recently finished a large oil painting masterpiece depicting the world shocking and tragically moving event in New York City, USA last September.

The large oil painting titled September 911 – America Under Attack is Dr. Lai’s most recent large-scale painting, measuring 2m by 4m long. This oil masterpiece depicts the final terrifying moments of the Twin Tower office buildings collapsing after being hit by two commercial airlines respectively. And also captured on canvas are the chaotic mass of survivors running desperately away from the collapsing towers and their horrified looks that will forever remain etched in people’s minds around the world that witnessed this tragic incident on their TV sets.

Primarily, Dr. Lai’s motivation to capture this tragic event on canvas, this first globally shocking historical moment of the 21st century is for future generations of humanity to reflect upon the significance of this tragic day. For this objective, Dr. Lai has succeeded in capturing this historically significant moment.

To complete this oil painting, Dr. Lai spent 478 hours, including countless pencil sketches, revisions, contemplations, and comments from his peers before the final moment is realistically drawn on canvas.

This oil masterpiece depicts about 260 human figures and faces, more than 100 firefighters, 34 office towers including the Manhattan bridge with the haunting silhouette of the Statue of Liberty in the distant background as seen from ground zero.

Painting Refer to [History Painting]