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Goh Cheng Liang was born in Singapore. [2] He is the son of Wu Songchang and Li Xiuying. [3] He grew up in poverty and sold fishnets and rubber tapper for income. After World War II, he began buying cheap paint from the British army which he turned into a local company. [4]
Goh Hup Jin (traditional Chinese: 吳學人; born 1952/1953) is a Singaporean businessman, and the chairman of Nippon Paint since March 2018. Early life [ edit ]
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.
The Singapore River thus then became their favourite haunt to paint at, especially when the group cannot decide where else to paint at. [4] Between 1958 and 1971 Lim, and the other Singapore River artists took their plein air painting excursions to various parts of Malaysia, especially to the state of Johor. [5]
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 Nativity, one of the murals drawn by Stanley Warren on the walls of St Luke's Chapel in Roberts Barracks, Singapore. The Changi Murals are a set of five paintings of biblical themes painted by Stanley Warren, a British bombardier and prisoner-of-war (POW) interned at the Changi Prison, during the Japanese occupation of Singapore in the Second World War.
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 ...