What's da point?

[songsongpunggol]

Being an artist has no future in Singapore.

21 rare European masterpieces in Singapore

SINGAPORE: Twenty-one rare masterpieces, worth some S$8.5 million, from European painters have made their way to Singapore. They include paintings from the Baroque and Renaissance period dated some 400 to 500 years ago.

 

[laksaboy]

In the eyes of gian png Sinkies and PAP supporters, artists (and musicians) are never-do-wells and hence treated with contempt.

 

[prancku]

In the eyes of gian png Sinkies and PAP supporters, artists (and musicians) are never-do-wells and hence treated with contempt.

What is your definition of gian png?

About 15 years back some official in the Ministry of Culture (I forgot which ministry) paid S$15 million for a pile of printing materials and some printing machinery to an amerigo and even employed him on an annual consultancy fee of over $200,000 (if I recall correctly) to help Singaporeans appreciate 'art'. After one year ang mo said that our Singapore environment is not conducive to his idea of free expression of art and then packed up and went off, leaving the pile of pictures and worthless machinery to rot. He left, laughing all his way to the bank.

Remember also the $3 million (??) paid to the Taiwanese artist for four piles of bloody ugly blue, pink, grey and black metal plates clobbered together and placed outside of the National Museum for years and years.

Me guess whoever has the budget to go around buying foreign art objects never learn from their stupidity. Why not instead support and promote our own local artists, for example the late Ng Eng Teng?

It is our taxpayers money wasted on useless so called foreign 'art', just to satisfy the egos of the arty farty fat cats amongst the mandarins.

 

[moolightaffairs]

What is your definition of gian png?

About 15 years back some official in the Ministry of Culture (I forgot which ministry) paid S$15 million for a pile of printing materials and some printing machinery to an amerigo and even employed him on an annual consultancy fee of over $200,000 (if I recall correctly) to help Singaporeans appreciate 'art'. After one year ang mo said that our Singapore environment is not conducive to his idea of free expression of art and then packed up and went off, leaving the pile of pictures and worthless machinery to rot. He left, laughing all his way to the bank.

Remember also the $3 million (??) paid to the Taiwanese artist for four piles of bloody ugly blue, pink, grey and black metal plates clobbered together and placed outside of the National Museum for years and years.

Me guess whoever has the budget to go around buying foreign art objects never learn from their stupidity. Why not instead support and promote our own local artists, for example the late Ng Eng Teng?

It is our taxpayers money wasted on useless so called foreign 'art', just to satisfy the egos of the arty farty fat cats amongst the mandarins.

that is the point. our pap gov throw money to foreigners to satisfy the egos!

actually our art scene was very vibrant during the 60's with groups like Crescendos and some other groups.
not only for angmo, Chinese and malay also got good singers and local productions.
i think SEA traditional art scene is more into music and songs than those ang mo paintings and sculptures.
well, we do have some really good artists doing oil paintings. only when they died, then gov start to pay attention to them.
should support those local painters! their paintings were all about local contexts which our people can relay to!