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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]
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
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.
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.
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 ...
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]
Georgette Chen, Sweet Rambutans, 1965, Oil on canvas. 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.