Cubism in Asia

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If you love art, you owe yourself a trip to the Singapore Art Museum before 9 April 2006.

I am going back there. Again.

I happened to be in the area a few days back, so I decided to drop by the museum. I was pleasantly surprised to find that there was a special exhibition on Cubism in Asia.

According to Wikipedia,

Cubism is usually regarded as the most important and influential art movement since the Italian Renaissance; it was an avant-garde art movement that revolutionized European painting and sculpture in the early 20th century.

In cubist artworks, objects are broken up, analyzed, and re-assembled in an abstracted form — instead of rendering objects from a single fixed angle, the artist depicts the subject from multiple angles simultaneously as an attempt to present the subject in the most complete manner. Often the surfaces of the facets, or planes, intersect at angles that show no recognizable depth. The background and object (or figure) planes interpenetrate one another creating the ambiguous shallow space characteristic of cubism. It was a complete and clearly defined aesthetic.

Besides enjoying the gorgeous paintings, I was playing hide-and-seek with the security guards. You see, they don’t allow you to take pictures in the gallery,

but if you do it surreptitiously, they won’t stop you
Here’s a painting with a rather unique shape:

In my haste, I forgot to take down the details, but this one is obviously on the crucifixion. As usual, the photograph doesn’t do justice to the real painting, despite my awesome photographic skills
The next time I go there, I’m gonna take even more pictures. I’ll try to include the friendly security guards in one of the pictures as well
But gosh, if you’ve read this far, you really have to go - you’ll never forgive yourself if you don’t!