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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.
Lim Tze Peng (Lim Swee Lian) was born on 28 September 1923, Singapore, [2] to a family of pig and chicken farmers in Pasir Ris. He is the eldest of seven children. [3]Lim Tze Peng studied at Guangyang Primary School and Chung Cheng High School.
Nanyang Style. The Nanyang style of painting, also known as Nanyang art or the Nanyang school, was a modern art movement and painting tradition initially practised by migrant Chinese painters in Singapore from the late-1940s to 1960s. [1][2][3] As immigrant artists taken by the novelty of tropical landscapes, the Nanyang artists' works ...
Category. : Singaporean painters. This category lists artists in Singapore adopting Western painting and drawing techniques, and using mediums like pencil, color pencils, charcoal, pen and ink, crayon, pastel, silverpoint, Indian ink, oil paint, acrylic and watercolour . Wikimedia Commons has media related to Painters from Singapore.
The Singapore Art Museum (Abbreviation: SAM) is an art museum with multiple venues across Singapore. It is the first fully dedicated contemporary visual arts museum in Singapore with one of the world’s most important public collections by local, Southeast and East Asian artists. It collaborates with international art museums to co-curate ...
This category lists artists from Singapore practicing mainstream fine arts in painting or other art mediums. This includes Singaporean modern, avant-garde, contemporary practising artists in the field of painting, installation, performance art and film. This category does not include practitioners of commercial art such as graphic design.
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.
Georgette Chen, Self Portrait, c. 1946, Oil on canvas, Collection of National Gallery Singapore Georgette Liying Chendana Chen (simplified Chinese: 张荔英; traditional Chinese: 張荔英; pinyin: Zhāng Lìyīng; born Chang Li Ying; 23 October 1906 – 15 March 1993), most commonly known as Georgette Chen, was a Singaporean painter and one of the pioneers of modern Singaporean art as well ...