Bangkok Post – Siam Society invites all to talk on glass paintings

Siam Society invites interested persons to learn about Javanese history through iconography on glass during a lecture on “Reverse Glass Painting In Java, 19th–20th Centuries: Reflections Of A World On The Move”, on Thursday at 7pm.

Painting under glass was widely practised in Indonesia between the end of the 19th century and the 1970s. It was so successful that almost all Javanese iconography was reproduced on this medium.

However, as works on other media (paper, wood, leather) have survived less well over time, reverse glass paintings give us access to a range of images that would be hard to find elsewhere.

In this talk, French scholar Jérôme Samuel, who has been conducting extensive research on traditional and contemporary reverse glass painting in Indonesia for the past 20 years, will focus on the question of modernity.

During the span of time mentioned above,…