Arts of Cambodia PDF

They wore tunics like their neighbors, but it is represented well by sampot, the royal ballet costume of woven fabric with threads of silver and gold.  The design is simple linear cuts to fit their costumes, which projects grace and rhythm. It made of silk, cotton, and rayon. The colors are silver...

They wore tunics like their neighbors, but it is represented well by sampot, the royal ballet costume of woven fabric with threads of silver and gold.  The design is simple linear cuts to fit their costumes, which projects grace and rhythm. It made of silk, cotton, and rayon. The colors are silver gray, gold, magenta.  The heavy influence of Hinduism to design a brass sculpture of Phoenix the Hindu mythical creature of life-death; and clay sculpture of the gods and goddesses of the epic of Ramayana, are prevalent.  The designs are floral, curvilinear, linear, and geometrical shapes. It made of brass, bronze, clay, wood, silver, and gold. It uses neutral earth colors of brown and its monochrome.  The saving of Angkor Wat, the ancient Hindu temple that nearly came to its ruin, reveals the splendor of Khmer architecture, the advanced civilization of their past.  It has tall building and memorials and temples designed after the motif of the Hinduism. It made of assortment of limestone, clays, sands, and soils as based-materials washed brownish walls of these structures.  The neutral and earth colors of gray, brown, and yellow paint the objects and structures.  The neutral earth colors of brown and gray and their range, sap green, celadon cover their religious objects of art. These colors reflect the natural materials which they used. CAMBODIA Social art of the Cambodians seemed to advance the theme “Forgive and Forget”, calling for burying the stark and sad past during the Khmer Rouge period. As monarchy is restored, A street painting in Phnom Penh, the country’s capital, drew large crowds artists appear to call for viewing the grand reflection on waters of reminiscing the past glory of the abundant terrains of Cambodia. The the Khmer Kingdom. rich forest and magnificent temples moved the audience to ponder the past.