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Liu Kang, Artist and Model, 1954, Oil on canvas, 84 x 124cm, Collection of National Gallery Singapore The Nanyang artists are particularly known for embarking on a 1952 painting trip to Bali, with the representation of Balinese and Southeast Asian material culture in their work for the resulting 1953 exhibition Pictures from Bali. [3]
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.
Georgette Chen, Self Portrait, c. 1946, Oil on canvas, Collection of National Gallery Singapore Georgette Liying Chendana Chen [a] (born Chang Li Ying; 23 October 1906 – 15 March 1993), commonly known as Georgette Chen, was a Singaporean painter and one of the pioneers of modern Singaporean art as well as the Nanyang style of art in the region.
The William Farquhar Collection of Natural History Drawings consists of 477 watercolour botanical drawings of plants and animals of Malacca and Singapore by unknown Chinese (probably Cantonese) artists that were commissioned between 1819 and 1823 by William Farquhar (26 February 1774 – 13 May 1839). The paintings were meant to be of ...
Heng was born in Singapore in 1951. [6] She graduated from LASALLE College of the Arts in 1988 with a diploma in printmaking. [7] In 1990, she conducted research on the women's liberation movement and feminist art at the Central St Martins School of Art and Design, now part of the University of the Arts London.
Cheong Soo Pieng (simplified Chinese: 钟泗宾; traditional Chinese: 鍾泗賓; pinyin: Zhōng Sì Bīn; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tsing Sì-pin) was a Singaporean artist who was a pioneer of the Nanyang art style, and a driving force to the development of Modernism in visual art in the early 20th-century Singapore.
He also unveiled a painting of three Balinese women, each carrying a basket, titled Offerings. To commemorate the 100th year of Liu's birth, the National Art Gallery, Singapore, together with the Global Chinese Arts & Culture Society and Lianhe Zaobao, held a forum titled "Liu Kang: Tropical Vanguard" on 2 April 2011. The forum brought together ...
Color analysis (American English; colour analysis in Commonwealth English), also known as personal color analysis (PCA), seasonal color analysis, or skin-tone matching, is a term often used within the cosmetics and fashion industry to describe a method of determining the colors of clothing and cosmetics that harmonize with the appearance of a person's skin complexion, eye color, and hair color ...