About Thaiart9.

Thaiart9 accepts to wogk on the Mural Painting and Thai Arts by me, "Mr.Surapong Sitthijinda" (B.F.A., M.F.A.) and the team, Graduated from Department of Thai Arts, Facalty of Painting Sculpture and Graphic Arts, Silpakorn University.( Number 1 University of Fine Arts of Thailand) We have experienced in Mural Painting works and Thai Contemporary art for over 10 years. Our effective works can be certified by national and international awards in Arts.

Thaiart9 accepts to work on the Mural Painting and Thai Arts; we also give counsels and suggestions , estimate the price of art work, Thai architecture, and contemporary art work.

History of Thai Arts.

Traditional Thai art is primarily composed of Buddhist art and scenes from the Indian epics. Traditional Thai sculpture almost exclusively depicts images of the Buddha. Traditional Thai paintingsusually consist of book illustrations, and painted ornamentation of buildings such as palaces and temples.

Sukhothai period.

The Sukhothai period began in the 14th century in the Sukhothai kingdom. Buddha images of the Sukhothai period are elegant, with sinuous bodies and slender, oval faces. This style emphasized the spiritual aspect of the Buddha, by omitting many small anatomical details. The effect was enhanced by the common practice of casting images in metal rather than carving them. This period saw the introduction of the "walking Buddha" pose. Everything has its own purposes.

Sukhothai artists tried to follow the canonical defining marks of a Buddha, as they are set out in ancient Pali texts:

  • Skin so smooth that dust cannot stick to it
  • Legs like a deer
  • Thighs like a banyan tree
  • Shoulders as massive as an elephant's head
  • Arms round like an elephant's trunk, and long enough to touch the kneess
  • Hands like lotuses about to bloom
  • Fingertips turned back like petals
  • head like an egg
  • Hair like scorpion stingers
  • Chin like a mango stone
  • Nose like a parrot's beak
  • Earlobes lengthened by the earrings of royalty
  • Eyelashes like a cow's
  • Eyebrows like drawn bows

Sukhothai also produced a large quantity of glazed ceramics in the Sawankhalok style, which were traded throughout south-east Asia.

Ayuddhaya period.

The surviving art from this period was primarily executed in stone, characterised by juxtaposed rows of Buddha figures. In the middle period, Sukhothai influence dominated, with large bronze or brick and stucco Buddha images, as well as decorations of gold leaf in free-form designs on a lacquer background. The late period was more elaborate, with Buddha images in royal attire, set on decorative bases.

Bangkok period.

This period is characterized by the further development of the Ayutthaya style, rather than by more great innovation. One important element was the Krom Chang Sip Mu (Organization of the Ten Crafts), originally founded in Ayutthaya, which was responsible for improving the skills of the country's craftsmen. Paintings from the mid-19th century show the influence of Western art.

Thai contemporary art.

Thailands contemporary art encompasses some of the most diverse and versatile art in Southeast Asia. Thailand is well positioned in the global world of contemporary art with its international and liberal outlook and almost lack of censorship, which plague many countries in the region. Modern painting in the western sense started late in Thailand, with Professor Silpa Bhirasri and the establishment of Silpakorn University, but Thai artists are now expressing themselves in a variety of media such as installations, photographs, prints, video art and performance art.

Contemporary Thai art often combines traditional Thai elements with modern techniques. Notable artists in the classical tradition include Chakrapan Posayakrit, Chalermchai Kositpipat and Tawan Dachanee.

Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook, Vasan Sitthiket, Montien Boonma and others have represented Thailand at the Venice Biennale. Vasan Sitthiket is one of the few Thai contemporary artist with work represented in the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. His most recent show is called Capitalism is Dying! at Thavibu Gallery, 2009.

Chatchai Puipia exhibited at the Asia-Pacific Triennal (1996), the Shanghai Biennale (2002), the Singapore Biennale (2006) and the exhibition Traditions/Tension Southeast Asian Art at the Asia Society in New York. Panya Vijinthanasarn is the Dean of Silpakorn’s Faculty of Painting, Sculpture and Graphic Art.

Younger and up-and-coming artists include Porntaweesak Rimsakul, Yuree Kensaku, Jirapat Tatsanasomboon, Kritsana Chaikitwattana and Thaweesak Srithongdee.

Since 2003 Thailand has participated in the Venice Biennale. The Ministry of Culture leads this project, while the private sector also works to put Thailand on the art map by proposing interesting works and artists to Documenta, organized every 5 years in Kassel, Germany. In 2007 there were two Thai artists in Documenta, while an Asian art show was held in ZKM, Germany at the same time, in June 1987.

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