Woodblock prints

VIETNAM A folk art with a long history in Vietnam, Vietnamese woodblock prints have reached a level of popularity outside of Vietnam. Organic materials are used to make the paint, which is applied to wood and pressed on paper. The process is repeated with different colors.

PAINTING
THAILAND

Traditional Thai paintings showed subjects in two dimensions without perspective. The size of each element in the picture reflected its degree of importance. The primary technique of composition is that of apportioning areas: the main elements are isolated from each other by space transformers. This eliminated the intermediate ground, which would otherwise imply perspective. Perspective was introduced only as a result ofWestern influence in the mid-19th century. The most frequent narrative subjects for paintings were or are: the Jataka stories, episodes from the life of the Buddha, the Buddhist heavens and hells, and scenes of daily life.

Ramayana
Malaysia Art and Culture It was probably after 1612 an English sea captain brought a valuable manuscript from the Malay world to England, subsequently acquired by the powerful Archbishop of Canterbury William Laud as a gift to Bodleian Library, Oxford in 1633 along with over 1300 manuscripts. Today, it is known as a gem of Malaysia art and culture, the oldest extant copy of Malay version Ramayana, the "Hikayat Seri Rama".

TEXTILE WEAVING
PHILIPPINES
Indigenous folk art of the T'boli and Yakan peoples of the Philippines.

TEXTILE WEAVING
LAOS The Lao people have been raising silkworms, dying silk, and weaving with many motifs and designs for atleast 3000 years. The folk tales, poems and proverbs of Lao culture are woven into the textiles

STONE CARVINGS
CAMBODIA
Cambodia's best-known stone carving adorns the temples of Angkor, which are "renowned for the scale, richness and detail of their sculpture". In modern times, however, the art of stone carving became rare, largely because older sculptures survived undamaged for centuries (eliminating the need for replacements) and because of the use of cement molds for modern temple architecture. By the 1970s and 1980s, the craft of stone carving was nearly lost.