RADEN SALEH AND JUAN LUNA
May 01, 2018
2 minutes
JEAN WONG
Raden Saleh and Juan Luna are cornerstone figures in 19th-century Southeast Asian art history. The two artists’ successes were unprecedented: Indonesia-born Saleh was the first person from Java to receive art training in Europe, while Luna, a Filipino artist, won the gold medal in the 1884 National Exhibition of Fine Arts in Madrid. The result of three-plus years of research, National Gallery Singapore’s exhibition, “Between Worlds,” spotlighted
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