Asian Art Resource Room

Gangaw Village Art Group

Gangaw Village Art Group Experimental art initiated in Myanmar The Gangaw Vil...

Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale (FT)

International Exhibition for Exchange in Asia The Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale...

Postwar Realism

Realism Rising Up from the Postwar Devastation The 1940s and 50s—that is, dur...

The Woodcut Print Movement in Singapore

From the Mainland to the Southern City The Japanese occupation of Singapore a...

The ’43 Group

The Individual Modernism in Sri Lanka The Ceylon Society of Arts was founded ...

The Bengal School and Jamini Roy

Quest of Indian Ethnic Modern In 1905, Abanindranath Tagore (1894–1975) was a...

Early Western-style Paintings in India

Deities in Real Flesh Raja Ravi Varma (1848–1906) is a well-known painter in ...

Penang Chinese Art Club and the Society for Chinese Artists

Chinese Artists’ Movements in Malaya The 1930s saw a growing trend of nationa...

Beijing East Village

Base of Avant-garde Artists The Beijing East Village, an artist village forme...

Asian Art Show at Fukuoka Art Museum

The first Serial Exhibition of Asian Contemporary Art in Japan The Fukuoka Ar...

The Artists Village

Platform of Experimental Art in Singapore The Artists Village (TAV) is an art...

Korean People’s Art

The Huge Cultural Movement for the People and Democracy This art movement, on...

Monochrome Painting

The Ultimate Abstraction in Korean Aesthetics Monochrome painting is an abstr...

Contemporary Pakistani Miniature Paintings

Revival of Traditional Painting as Contemporary Art Miniature painting which ...

Warli Painting

Village Festival depicted in While Lines The Warli is an ethnic group numberi...

Mithila Painting

The Evolution of Folk Art: From Walls to Paper Mithila is a region in the nor...

Kantha

From the Daily Use to Artwork Kantha is quilt embroidery from the Bengal regi...

Paubha

Deities Descend in Cities The term derives from Pata, meaning a Buddhist pict...

Tantra Painting

Meditation in Minimalism Tantra is a general term referring to a number of es...

Rickshaw Painting

Riding on Dreams An essential part of day to day city life in Bangladesh, the...

Pakistani Film Posters

The Physical Beauty in the Muslim Culture Film production began in the Indian...

Varma Prints

The Indianness Reproduced in Modern Technique Raja Ravi Varma (1848–1906) was...

Kalighat Painting

Fast-painted Temple Souvenir In 19th century India, in Bengal villages, a for...

Company Painting

Miniatures for Western Patrons Company Painting is the painting created by In...

Vietnamese War Poster

Hand-painted Propaganda Images For a period from the middle of the Vietnam Wa...

Dong Ho folk woodcut painting

The Auspicious for People This printmaking tradition emerged from Dong Ho vil...

Balinese Painting

Deities in Village Life Found within majority Muslim Indonesia, the indigenou...

Kamasan Painting

Epic World in Decoration A traditional art from Bali, Indonesia, originating ...

Early Burmese Western Style Painting

Hybridity toward the Modernity British colonial rule in Burma dates from 1886...

Mongolian Painting

Tradition Revitalized by the Youth Culture The term applies to the painting (...

The Stars Art Group

The China’s First Contemporary Art Group: In Search of the Freedom in Art St...

New Year Pictures

Vision of Happy Society By 1949 and the forming of the People’s Republic of C...

Posters of the Cultural Revolution

Imagined Revolution Produced during approximately a decade from Mao’s announc...

Chinese commercial advertising poster

Seduction of the Modernity With the formation of the Republic of China in 191...

Uki-e

Playful Perspective Uki-e (literally “float painting”) creates a visual illus...

Indochina School of Fine Arts

 Pedagogy of French Art and Traditional Techniques In 1925, the École des Bea...

Silpakorn University

Merging Western and Traditional Art The 1932 military coup in Thailand initia...

PERSAGI

In Quest of the Independence in Indonesian Art In 1938, the Union of Indonesi...

Thirteen Moderns

Pioneers of Philippine Modern Art It was in 1928 that young Victorio Edades (...

China Trade Paintings

Fantasy Materialized: The Chineseness for Westerners  Producing art for the E...