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Tan's second poetry collection, Driving Into Rain (1998), won the Merit award at the Singapore Literature Prize 1997. [2] His second collection seeks to project the poet's relationship with the larger world [ 2 ] and according to poet Dr Cyril Wong , "regularly stops short of divulging enough about the poet’s persona for readers to enter a ...
The visual art of Singapore, or Singaporean art, refers to all forms of visual art in or associated with Singapore throughout its history and towards the present-day. The history of Singaporean art includes the indigenous artistic traditions of the Malay Archipelago and the diverse visual practices of itinerant artists and migrants from China, the Indian subcontinent, and Europe.
The Equator Art Society was an artists' group founded in 1956 in Singapore, known for promoting social realist art. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The Equator Art Society sought to represent the realities and struggles of the masses, depicting Singapore's working classes and the poor often through the use of portraiture painting , woodcut prints , and sculpture ...
This is one of the largest collections of public domain images online (clip art and photos), and the fastest-loading. Maintainer vets all images and promptly answers email inquiries. Open Clip Art – This project is an archive of public domain clip art. The clip art is stored in the W3C scalable vector graphics (SVG) format.
The National Museum of Singapore is a public museum dedicated to Singaporean art, culture and history.Located within the country's Civic District at the Downtown Core area, it is the oldest museum in the country, with its history dating back to when it was first established in 1849, starting out as a section of a library at the Singapore Institution [d] as the Raffles Library and Museum.
Openclipart, also called Open Clip Art Library, is an online media repository of free-content vector clip art.The project hosts over 160,000 free graphics and has billed itself as "the largest community of artists making the best free original clipart for you to use for absolutely any reason".
Natural history drawings of flora and fauna: Collection of 477 drawings commissioned by William Farquhar: 19th century [1] 9: A wooden hearse: Used for the funeral of Chinese philanthropist Tan Jiak Kim: 1917 [1] 10: Embroidered Chinese coffin cover: One of the largest of its kind in existence in Singapore: unknown [1] 11: A glove puppet stage
The restoration work on the then 140-year-old national monument took more than two years at a cost of S$30 million. It first opened its doors to the public as the Singapore Art Museum on 20 October 1995. Its first art installation was a S$90,000, 7 m (23 ft)-high Swarovski crystal chandelier at the museum main