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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.
Folk poetry in general has several characteristics. It may be informal and unofficial, generally lacks an owner and may "belong" to the society, and its telling may be an implicitly social activity. [1]
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).
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.
Plate used to print ukiyo-e. Ukiyo-e is a Japanese printmaking technique which flourished in the 17th through 19th centuries. Its artists produced woodblock prints and paintings of subjects including female beauties; kabuki actors and sumo wrestlers; scenes from history and folk tales; travel scenes and landscapes; Japanese flora and fauna; and erotica.
Nyi Roro Kidul (or Nyai Rara Kidul) is a supernatural being in Indonesian folklore.She is the Queen of the Southern Sea in Sundanese and Javanese mythology.. In Javanese mythology, Kanjeng Ratu Kidul is a creation of Dewa Kaping Telu who fills the realm of life as the goddess of harvest and other goddesses of nature.
Wang Wei (Traditional Chinese: 王維; Simplified Chinese: 王维, pinyin: Wáng Wéi, 699–761) [1] was a Chinese musician, painter, poet, and politician of the middle Tang dynasty.