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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 ...
Josef Ng Sing Chor [1] (Chinese: 吴承祖; pinyin: Wú Chéngzǔ; born 1972) is a Singaporean gallerist and former performance artist. [2] He is known for his 1994 public performance Brother Cane, at the end of which he partially exposed his buttocks and snipped his pubic hair.
After artist Josef Ng's 1994 performance Brother Cane, in which he bared his buttocks and trimmed his pubic hair to protest media coverage of an anti-gay operation in 1992, [22] for the years 1994 to 2004, the NAC withdrew funding support for the scriptless art forms of performance art as well as forum theatre. [22]
Chua Mia Tee, National Language Class, 1959, Oil on canvas, 112 x 153 cm, Installation view at National Gallery Singapore Chua Mia Tee (Chinese: 蔡名智; pinyin: Cài Míngzhì; [1] born 25 November 1931) is a Chinese-born Singaporean artist known for his social realist oil paintings capturing the social and political conditions of Singapore and Malaya in the 1950s and 60s.
Social justice art, and arts for social justice, encompasses a wide range of visual and performing art that aim to raise critical consciousness, build community, and motivate individuals to promote social change. [1] Art has been used as a means to record history, shape culture, cultivate imagination, and harness individual and social ...
Singapore police are investigating an Indian national for allegedly being involved in a public protest against Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's controversial citizenship law.
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.
It is difficult to establish a history for protest art because many variations of it can be found throughout history. While many cases of protest art can be found during the early 1900s, like Picasso's Guernica in 1937, the last thirty years [when?] has experienced a large increase in the number of artists adopting protest art as a style to relay a message to the public.