National Gallery Singapore

National Gallery Singapore is a visual arts institution which oversees the largest public collection of modern art in Singapore and Southeast Asia. Situated in the heart of the Civic District, the Gallery is housed in two national monuments—City Hall and former Supreme Court—that have been beautifully restored and transformed into this exciting venue.

Reflecting Singapore’s unique heritage and geographical location, the Gallery features Singapore and Southeast Asian art from Singapore’s National Collection in its long-term and special exhibitions. The Gallery also works with international museums to jointly present Southeast Asian art in the global context, positioning Singapore as a regional and international hub for the visual arts.

In the gallery I saw many different styles of painting, of which my favorite style is pointillism. I think this kind of style is very special and it is also very fun. The point-painting is a kind of painting technique. In this technique, small and different color dots are used in the pattern to form images. This technique is called new impressionism. The pointillism is a way of painting, in which a solid single point is used to form an image. Artists usually use hundreds of small dots to depict pictures, mainly red, yellow, blue and green, orange, purple, pink, brown and white. Let the viewer's eyes and mind mix these colors according to the arrangement of color dots to form different shades of these colors.

What is Pointillism ?

Pointillism is a technique of painting in which small, distinct dots of color are applied in patterns to form an image. Georges Seurat and Paul Signac developed the technique in 1886, branching from Impressionism. The term "Pointillism" was coined by art critics in the late 1880s to ridicule the works of these artists, and is now used without its earlier mocking connotation. The movement Seurat began with this technique is known as Neo-impressionism. The Divisionists, too, used a similar technique of patterns to form images, though with larger cube-like brushstrokes.

I like the pointillism style in the gallery Because pointillism style look interesting. pointillism is use small dot to form an image and poinllism have many different colour in this style drawing.

You can see a flower forest in this picture. Flowers in the tree are expressed in pink "dots."

The painting looks like a garden, and the painting is green. People feel this garden is fantastic, in the middle of painting can see a bunch of glimmers, dark and bright proportions clear in the picture.

Form the 1880s, paul cezanne began to distance himself from paris and the impressionist group. in the landscapes of his native provence, combining a sensual experience of nature with a rational approach to organizing from. the simple and solid forms of rocks made tem one of cezanne’s favourite subjectss, and in the early 1900s he made a series of paintings and watercolors of the rocks around the chateau noir, near aix-en-provence.

this painting shows the development in cezanne’s work. the colour modulations indicate forms and volumes, but also illustrate how colour creates light. in his previous work, cozen had focused on composing solid objects; now the subject seems to disintegrate into patches of colour that do not represent anything in themselves, but instead create an image of the world through the relationships made between them.

this painting was formerly owned by henri matisse, indicating the significant influence cezanne had on younger artists. his 1907 retrospective at the salon d’ automne, was a turning point for pablo picasso in his development of cubism.

The picture looks purulent, reflecting the reflection of the palace in the lake. this work is one of a series of 15 paintings made when claude Monet established himself on the bank of the seine across from the church of vetheuil in 1901. these very large works, almost square in format and painted from a single point of view, show how far Monet had come since working outdoors at the turn of the 1870s on views of the same church. while still interested in the relationship between the different elements of the scene, and the effects produced by the light upon them, he now sought to express a mood rather than a fleeting impression of the landscape.

the painting is organised around the riverbank, which divides the composition into two equal rectangles. a delicate symmetry is established, with the bell tower placed slightly off-centre. the forms are expressed in a series of thickly applied brushstrokes, which calibrate the gradation pf pinks, violets and blues that halo the church and the village that surrounds it. it is as if the outlines of memory, dissolved by time, are layered onto the surface of this work.

The Hydrangea (also known as two sisters) is characteristic of Berthe Morisot’s late style. like Auguste Renoir, she portrayed female subjects from her immediate environment ( in particular her daughter Julie ), or young female models posing in domestic settings. her style, while still sketchy, had become more monumental; the figures fill the space of the picture, while the decor is reduced to a minimum.

here Morisot uses a varied range of colors, softened by the addition of white. she simultaneously uses contrasts of tints ( complementary colors ) and tones ( the same colour but with different degrees of brightness ), harmoniously distributing warm and cold tones in the surface of the canvas. the brunette’s pink robe is shadowed with violet, but her skin, which is also pink, is modeled with cold greens. we find warm greens in the clothing and hair of the young blonde, but also in the background of the picture. the warm red flowers on her knees help to balance the composition, in counterpoint with the broad strokes of blue and green in the hydrangea.

Light colors were used in the paintings, highlighting the beauty and grandeur of the place, a hill or grassland surrounded by flowers. Emphasizes the change in light quality of image colors and textures.

Instead of creating detailed images, use visible strokes and unusual perspectives on the painting to blur the image. Flowers can even be seen at a fair distance or at a glance, but with careful observation, you can see that flowers are just the colors scattered around the painting.

Express a fresh light image and feel excited and relaxed as you watch the picture. At the sensual level, there is a unique lady who holds a bunch of flowers and looks at the horizon as if she is enjoying the surroundings.