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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
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.
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 ...
In 2002, Asian Paints acquired a 60% stake in Egyptian paint manufacturer SCIB Chemicals for ₹ 24.5 crore (US$5.04 million). [14] It also acquired a 50.1% stake in the SGX-listed Berger International Singapore, which had operations in 11 countries across Southeast Asia, West Asia, the Caribbean, China and Malta, for US$20.8 million. [15]
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.
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.