Art History

Art in Thailand is mainly found in Bangkok, where it is still very wide spread across the world. Bangkok has been the capitol of Thailand since 1782. It has many elegant and beautiful ancient buildings, the oldest originating around 5,000 years ago. Since this time, the style and color of the architecture and art has changed drastically over the years. This paper will discuss many different styles, cultures, religions, and color. Archeologists have found tools and decorative pieces around northern Thailand, dating back to Paleolithic times. This shows how old the original man was when they first made settlements near Thailand. As style has evolved, they began making glass and weaving cloth. The true Thai architecture didn’t come until later. The ruins of Thailand, which are where the elegant style came from date back to the first capitol in 1238. Sukhothai was the first capitol of Thailand. The style of these ruins is still very similar to the present day buildings. The buildings themselves were very large, and the tall peak like tops was very distinct themselves. They were like no other architecture to be found. On these ruins were religion ico

Another highly regarded Thai artist of this period who excelled in realistic depictions of Thai scenes was Acharn Saard. They began designing buildings, which showed more color and gracefulness in their smooth climb towards the sky. During this period only paintings were done and only three colors were used to do these paintings, red, black, and white. His paintings which are primarily in oils offer a richness of color and a realistic depth of presentation which few Thai artists before or since have equaled. Angkarn Kalayanapongsa, Misiem Yipintsoi and Tawan Duchanee led Thai modern art into different forms of art than seen in Thailand to that time. He is the main god of their religion and is found everywhere in Thailand. As an artist, going to Thailand is highly recommended, even though I have not been there myself the art and architecture look truly amazing. The Buddhists statues located all over are also made almost entirely of gold. The have tall recessing roofs and are mostly plated in gold. It is a marvel to see how these buildings climb to story on top of story and not topple over. They were put there as statues to represent who the building was built for and sometimes to tell a story of the building. The Other Capitol of Thailand is Ayutthaya, this was the power centre for more than 400 years in Thailand. The statues on the buildings would represent other gods or war heroes of the past to protect each building. The Buddhist temples in Thailand are the most elegant of all.