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Glossary of Southeast Asian Art
A living lexicon of modern Southeast Asian art.
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Malayan art
“Malayan paintings are Malayan — in outlook, in expression and in spirit. In them you see a virility of expression, a mastery of colour and…
Ryan How
Sep 23, 2017
Contemporary art
“Contemporary art has in fact reached a point when artists are prepared to adopted [sic] anything as a medium to work with. What is…
Ryan How
Aug 30, 2017
Straw painting
“The work of villagers, these pictures may be seen hanging in kampong homes throughout Malaya, but their popularity is greater and the…
Ryan How
Aug 30, 2017
Woodcut movement
“The dissemination of woodcuts through print media, such as magazines and newspapers, provide an alternative mode of exhibiting art other…
Ryan How
Aug 21, 2017
Calligraphy
Ryan How
Aug 21, 2017
Internationalisation
“Artists from Singapore were being propelled into the ‘international’ art scene on two fronts. First, there was a growing recognition by…
Ryan How
Aug 21, 2017
Malayanisation
“occurred as numerous Chinese immigrants renounced their ties with China to settle in Singapore and across Malaya. At the macro level, the…
Ryan How
Jul 20, 2017
Picturesque
Ryan How
Jul 20, 2017
Realism
Ryan How
Jul 20, 2017
Portraiture/Portrait photography
“As Singapore became established as a British colony, its inhabitants began to negotiate questions of identity and their engagement with…
Ryan How
Jul 20, 2017
Propaganda
Ryan How
Jul 20, 2017
Nationalism
Ryan How
Jul 20, 2017
Social Realism/Socialist Realism
“These four teachers [Lim Yew Kuan, Chua Mia Tee, Lee Boon Wang and Tan Tee Chie], who were responsible for emphasising a more socially…
Ryan How
Jul 20, 2017
Colonialism
Ryan How
Jul 20, 2017
Nanyang art
“The ‘Nanyang,’ translated as ‘South Seas,’ is a pre-modern trading term used by the Chinese for the Southeast Asian region, taking its…
Ryan How
Jul 20, 2017
Kampong
Ryan How
Jul 20, 2017
Singapore ink
“By the time migrant artists from China settled in Singapore, a majority of them were already familiar with Chinese and Western art as both…
Ryan How
Jul 20, 2017
Expressionism
“Although Expressionism is a term of Western art, it is by no means a conception novel to Eastern art … Not only is distortion frequently…
Elaine Ee
Jul 20, 2017
Abstraction
“Having attained the ‘national’ by way of independence, the artists in Southeast Asian countries were anxious to prove themselves…
Ryan How
Jul 20, 2017
Tropical
“In the 19th century, European understanding of Singapore unfolded through visualising people and landscape. Palm trees, kampong scenes…
Ryan How
Jul 19, 2017
Magical realism
Elaine Ee
May 2, 2017
Modern
“The diverse styles and techniques collectively known as the School of Paris, manifest the new — modern — status of the artist, and a fresh…
Elaine Ee
May 2, 2017
Hero
Elaine Ee
May 2, 2017
Developmental art
See Raymundo Albano (Phil)
Elaine Ee
May 2, 2017
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