Tingatinga painted a theme prominent in southern and eastern African art, "the big five" large animals (elephant, lion, rhinoceros, buffalo, leopard) common in this region.
Pick the goldfish, and the text changes to a different blue (the gold would be too hard to read) but the "purple paint" theme turns the nav text and other elements purple.
The artist says, "I am interested in the traditional East Asian painting theme, 'E ight Views of Xiaoxiang.
The artist says, "I am interested in the traditional East Asian painting theme, 'Eight Views of Xiaoxiang.' In my long-term research, the ancient subject is involved with the present knowledge, perceptions, and geography".
For a while he painted Jewish themes, albeit ambivalently, but in 1888 he moved to Paris, became acquainted with members of the French avant-garde and then went to Brittany with Paul Gauguin where he became part of the Pont-Aven school.
She traveled to the United States and painted American themes and a famous portrait of Buffalo Bill Cody, who became her friend.
For a festive idea, paint holiday themes such as a Jack-O-Lantern or a Christmas tree.
The Changi Murals are a set of five paintings of biblical theme painted by Stanley Warren, a British bombardier and prisoner-of-war (POW) interned at the Changi Prison, during the Japanese occupation of Singapore in World War II (WWII).
Perhaps the Japanese artists were mainly taught to paint Christian themed easel paintings by the Europeans but not the illuminated manuscripts.
Koichi Yanagi Oriental Fine Arts on East 66th Street routinely assembles ultra-refined, economy-size shows, and "Japanese Choose Chinese Arts: Porcelains and Painting Themes" is in that line.
