Red Morning Glory and Rotten Gun
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Core Metadata
Title: Red Morning Glory and Rotten Gun
Creator: Pratuang Emjaroen (Thai artist, b.1935)
Local Name: -
Countries: Thailand
Date Created: 1972
Date Acquired: not specified
Description: An oil-on-canvas painting depicting a bleak, surreal landscape. Rotten rifles, skeletal remains, skulls under Thailand’s flag, a beheaded Buddha crying under a bleeding moon—with regrowth in the form of a single glowing flower—interpreted as a powerful critique of Thailand's political violence in the mid-1970s
Type: Surrealist / Political Expression Painting
Format: Oil on canvas
Identifier: NGS‑A009
Rights: © National Gallery Singapore
License: Educational/research use only; reproduction requires permission
Link source: Click
Galleries Metadata
Preservation Metadata
Preservation Status: good
Preservation History: Images were cleaned in 2020.
Retention Policy: permanent
Archival Location: Thai Contemporary Art Zone
Backup Status: Digital copy ready
Relational Metadata
Parent Collection: Thai Modern Art
Sub Collections: Social Commentary Art
Related Items: Work by other artists from the same period.
Accessibility Metadata
Accessibility Features: captions
Accessibility Compliance: WCAG 2.1
Legal Metadata
Copyright Status: Copyright remains.
Copyright Holder: Artist heir
License Terms: published within the museum
Jurisdiction: Singapore / Thailand
Cultural Metadata
Cultural Significance: Symbols of conflict in Thai society after the war
Cultural Context: Thai contemporary art during social change
Usage Metadata
Access Statistics: Popular tasks in social studies
Citation Information: Red Morning Glory and Rotten Gun, Pratuang Emjaroen, National Gallery Singapore.
User Feedback: Work that viewers feel reflects Thai society at that time.
Educational Metadata
Educational Use: Used to study the relationship between art and politics.
Curriculum Alignment: Politics in Art, Modern Art
Learning Objectives: Understand the use of art to communicate political ideologies.
GEO Spatial Metadata
Location: National Gallery Singapore
Technical Metadata
File Format: TIFF
Resolution: 300 dpi
Checksum: SHA256
File Size: 35 MB
Temporal Metadata
Date Range: 1970–1980
Event Date: 1972