Chua Mia Tee is one of Singapore’s leading realist painter, often known for his oil paintings, which portray Singapore’s culture. Having grown up during Singapore’s tumultuous years, his early paintings reflect nationalistic concerns that occupied Singapore during our early years. More specifically, his artist style has been called Social Realism, a school of art that responds to the industrial revolution and urbanisation, focusing more on working class realities. Many of Singapore’s social realists blended anti-colonial sentiment, nationalist aspirations and socialist concerns in various proportions in their work.
Chua believes that realistic art helps audiences to understand and identify with the work more easily, thus allowing the art to have more meaning and greater impact on viewers. To him, realistic art is not merely about recording what an artist sees, but it is the artist 's ability to distill the essence of a subject and to present its beauty, in a new composition, for others to enjoy. He also believes that his work plays an important role in fostering cultural exchanges and international understanding.
“Singapore is undergoing rapid social changes, so are her people’s way of life. A painting can stand the test of time only when it mirrors the life and outlook of the people at a particular era.” – Chua Mia Tee
National Language Class is one of Chua Mia Tee’s most iconic paintings. It captures an important stage of Singapore’s history where nationalist
Artists; Betye Saar, Kara Walker, Michael Ray Charles, and Kerry James Marshall all create art stemming from race and stereotypes, and although their works have the same subject matter, their influences somewhat differ. Betye Saar likes to use characters such as Aunt Jemima, Uncle Tom, and other stereotypes from folk culture, and advertising in her works, and often using collages or assemblages to showcase those works. She once stated that “I’m the type of person who recycles material but I also recycle emotions and feelings.” Kara Walker is known for creating black-and-white silhouette works. Her subjects draw critical attention to the earlier cultural time of the pre-Civil War United States.
They both seeks freedom from the traditional art’s narrative and description of the literal visual world. Trying to free painting from the limitation of representational association, Wright focus on the juxtaposition and reverberation of pure primary and secondary
Analyzing Barbara J. Anello’s Long Son Pagoda
American photographer, Barbara J. Anello, has traveled to Southeast Asia documenting the historical aspects of traditional art and culture. Anello’s collection, “Photographs of Southeast Asia and Morocco”, focuses on the domestic architecture of rural areas and cultures. Anello’s photograph Long Son Pagoda was taken in Na Trang, Vietnam on March 3, 2008.
Tan expresses the life experiences of Chinese immigrants to the United States and attempts to depict the relationship of a mother and daughter through her significant piece of writing ‘The Joy Club’. Therefore, all these authors somehow portrayed their early struggles and their view point towards life from their literary
These poems discussed factors leading to immigration, such as poverty, arranged marriages through the “picture bride” system, and ambition. They communicated to historians the complex and differing stories of immigrants bravely facing a new world of American Sinophobia and Yellow Peril, allowing a more complex analysis of Asian-American history. These poems, alone, have shaped much of our modern understanding of early Asian
Student Name: Shornaiter Richards
Student Identification Number: AC1207313
Course Number & Title: AR300 Art History
Assignment Number & Title: AR300C Assignment 08
Date of Submission: 26/08/2015
Assignment:
Part A
1. Read the following article and analyze the expert’s opinion that art can be a generator of “identity” for a community, and examine what is meant by the statement that “public art ‘humanizes’ cities.”
Haley, C. (2014, Mar 14).
Created Through the Eye
Why do we all have different interpretations of art? Because we all are different in some way, our identity defines us and how we look at the world while our actions shape us and world around us. The works of Wenda Gu and Gordon Bennett both reflect aspects of their identity, whether that be personal, spiritual, cultural or psychological. Both artist are similar in many ways, notably for their reflection on personal experiences as cultural minorities.
Gordon Bennett successfully portrays his personal experiences as well as the cultural influences in his artworks.
Paintings, prints, drawing, crafts, photography are all forms of art which many artists specialize and utilize to display their creativity, sometimes bring awareness to certain social issue and also exploit the less fortunate for their fame. Some well-known artists like Vik Muniz in the
This report was commissioned by The Asian Education Foundation, to analyse the growing number of Asian texts being produced. This report will asses Family life, Resilience and the issue of Racism. Asian tests have had a large increase from the publishing of Anh Do’s autobiography, The Happiest Refugee.
2.0 Representations of growing up Asian in Australia
2.1 Family Life
In the autobiography ‘The Happiest Refugee’, Do has a high regard for his family, that he illustrates throughout the memoir.
The story Sweetheart of The Song Tra Bong by Tim O’Brien is about the decline of human innocence. Throughout our lives we face many changes whether it be by choice or by the environment we are surrounded in. Although change can be good it can also decrease the morale of those around you. Mary Anne is the face of such a change that will make brave men cower in fear; her change signifies a falling of the most beautiful of angels, the epitome of light but who has been seduced by the hatred and darkness.
The two concepts, idealism and realism merge together to form the concept of idealistic-realism. Idealism in art, is the poetization and spirituatualzation of a theme, belief and ethos, realism on the other hand is the act of recreating any scene, object or action in the form art. The concept of idealism at a deeper glance is the comprehension of the idea or ideal created by the artist, and was the foundation of all great Greek and Renaissance art. Augustus of Prime Porta is a great example of the peaceful co-existence of idealism and realism, since the sculpture is ideal and conceptual in its composition and realistic in its execution.
The marble statue of Augustus at Prima Porta was discovered in the villa of Livia in Prima Porta and was constructed to celebrate the Roman triumph over the Parthians in 20 B.C.
INTRODUCTION
Through the story of coming of a Japanese car making firm Assan Motors to the American town of Hadleyville, Ron Howard’s movie Gung Ho beautifully portrays how businesses are affected when people from different cultures come together to work as a team. Hunt Stevenson, played by Keaston, entices Assan Motors to Hadleyville where he is offered the position of ‘employee liaison in the joint venture. But soon, internal conflicts begin as both the Japanese and the Americans had very different styles of operation, which were mainly due to the differences in their cultural values.
HOFSTEDE DIMENSIONS OF NATIONAL CULTURE
The Artist of the Floating World is a novel set in Japan in the 1950s where traditional Asian values are prevalent. One can assume that given such a traditional setting, this narrative of different generations would reflect one common quality – complete obedience to the senior by the junior. However, this novel seems to reflect the complete opposite. I will argue through different relationships in the novel that while the senior usually assumes the authority, there is a tendency for the junior to challenge it. While this same tendency remains throughout generations even though methods to do so may change, it leads us to question the validity of Ono’s belief “that while it is right to look up to teachers, it was always important to question their authority (page 73)” and if this tendency is for the better or for the worse.
In Yo-yo Ma’s writing, “Necessary Edges: Art, Empathy, and Education”, Ma discusses the importance of integrating arts in society and education; this differs from Rhys Southan’s writing, “Is Art a Waste of Time”, for it talks about how the “Effective Altruism” movement does not see art as valuable because it does not make major contributions to society. Art is a tool used to communicate with people; this tool positively impacts contemporary culture, for it brings different cultures closer together, changes opinions, and it is useful in education.
Art is used all around the world to express culture. The art forms created by different cultures are shared with one another, and this creates subcultures and links cultures together.
