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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]
Popo Iskandar was born in Garut, West Java.His father, R.H. Natamihardja is a retired bank clerk. Since childhood his father expected Popo to become an architect.
Rembrandt's stolen masterpiece, The Storm on the Sea of Galilee (1633).. Marine art or maritime art is a form of figurative art (that is, painting, drawing, printmaking and sculpture) that portrays or draws its main inspiration from the sea.
Two great masses dominate the visual space: the violence of the great wave contrasts with the serenity of the empty background, [19] evoking the yin and yang symbol. Man, powerless, struggles between the two, which may be a reference to Buddhism (in which man-made things are ephemeral), as represented by the boats being swept away by the giant ...
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]
In a Tropical Forest Combat of a Tiger and a Buffalo (1908–1909), by Henri Rousseau. In the arts of the Western world, Primitivism is a mode of aesthetic idealization that means to recreate the experience of the primitive time, place, and person, either by emulation or by re-creation.
In Bali, where he was born, there were two traditions of painting - a sacred one and one of words for a Western audience - but his relationship to these is indirect.