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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]
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.
After World War II, artists were influenced by increasing anti-colonial nationalism to depict the sociopolitical conditions of Singapore and Malaya. [4] The social realism movement gained traction in Singapore from the mid-1950s, with artists attempting to reflect lived experience in Singapore through realist-style painting and socially-engaged practices, directly involving their subjects to ...
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
In May 2008, Studio Milou Singapore, in partnership with CPG Consultants (Singapore), was appointed to design and build the Gallery. Studio Milou Architecture is a French architectural firm, with branches in Paris and Singapore that specialise in the design of museums and cultural spaces.
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The English name of "Singapore" is an anglicisation of the native Malay name for the country, Singapura (pronounced), which was in turn derived from the Sanskrit word for 'lion city' (Sanskrit: सिंहपुर; romanised: Siṃhapura; Brahmi: 𑀲𑀺𑀁𑀳𑀧𑀼𑀭; literally "lion city"; siṃha means 'lion', pura means 'city' or 'fortress'). [9]
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.