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Ahmad Sadali (24 Juli 1924 – 19 September 1987) [1] comes from a family with diversified batik and printing businesses. He was an Indonesian painter and art lecturer who is well-known for his abstract art, especially Abstract expressionism, and Cubism [2] and Color field painting.
In 1929, Yong Mun Sen was the vice president of Singapore Society of Chinese Artists (SOCA). [3]He also proposed to establish a fine arts school, now known as Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA).
Chuah Thean Teng was born in 1914 in Fujian, China; Chuah's father traded sundries while his mother made shoes for women with bound feet.The family emigrated to Penang, Malaysia when Chuah was 14; Chuah returned to Fujian to pursue an education at the Amoy Art School (later the Xiamen Academy of Fine Arts), but returned to Malaya (now Malaysia) at the age of 17. [1]
Lee Man Fong (Chinese: 李曼峯; pinyin: Lǐmǐnfēng; Jyutping: lei5 man5 fung1; November 14, 1913 – April 3, 1988) was a painter born in Guangzhou, China.His father, a merchant with ten children, brought him to Singapore.
Wang Wei (Traditional Chinese: 王維; Simplified Chinese: 王维, pinyin: Wáng Wéi, 699–761) [1] was a Chinese musician, painter, poet, and politician of the middle Tang dynasty.
Neo-Impressionism is a term coined by French art critic Félix Fénéon in 1886 to describe an art movement founded by Georges Seurat.Seurat's most renowned masterpiece, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, marked the beginning of this movement when it first made its appearance at an exhibition of the Société des Artistes Indépendants (Salon des Indépendants) in Paris. [1]
The Disquieting Muses by Giorgio de Chirico, 1947. Metaphysical painting (Italian: pittura metafisica) or metaphysical art was a style of painting developed by the Italian artists Giorgio de Chirico and Carlo Carrà.
Nyi Roro Kidul (or Nyai Rara Kidul) is a supernatural being in Indonesian folklore.She is the Queen of the Southern Sea in Sundanese and Javanese mythology.. In Javanese mythology, Kanjeng Ratu Kidul is a creation of Dewa Kaping Telu who fills the realm of life as the goddess of harvest and other goddesses of nature.