Paintings and Painters of Thailand
The mural paintings in Thailand are characteristically Asian, ignoring perspective and focusing on composition and line, and for many years appeared as only design and decoration in the temples, palaces and Thailand luxury hotels. Or in smaller venues, as book illustrations. The figures in a scene of a Thai painting varied in size depending on the their significance and importance. The negative space was not given much importance and remained neutral in tone and color, with two dimensional figures painted atop. Throughout the years they have enhanced many walls in the country, with religious images and royal stories.
Painters of Thailand murals were restricted for many years, to just the use of five colors, white, black, red, ultra-marine and yellow ochre. They did blend the colors in order to find more range, and bound the pigments with glue. With just those five colors they managed to paint brilliantly colored banners, murals and illustrations. Of the older murals that have survived on city walls, those in Bangkok and Thon Buri remain well preserved. Over the years, various paints were imported from China, and the chemical additions to the tubes served to increase the number of colors and values, and to bring a richness and a vibrancy to the works.
Thai painters have adapted technologically speaking, and have adopted many tools used by Western artists, still keeping the traditional set of values from which they paint from. Many of the works have transformed from simple story illustrations into significant works of art. One artist that combined traditional modes with modern techniques successfully was the well known Thai portrait painter, Chakrapan Posayakrit. Another painter who experimented with the fusion of the traditional and modern ‘way’, is Tawan Dachanee. Both managed to create their own styles, in the midst of conformity. The paintings have gradually moved from being only illustrations for religious stories, decorating the walls in honor of the royal and religious aesthetics, to art for art’s sake. For the beauty of the work.
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