12/09/2010

Dadaism - - just for fun

the idea is from a picture my friend show me before. and i think the dadaism just make the picture more funny.
the Original is from http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postrock/2008/08/i_turn_my_camera_on_the_hold_s.html



Dadaism

Dada or Dadaism is a cultural movement that began in Zürich, Switzerland, during World War I and peaked from 1916 to 1922. The movement primarily involved visual arts, literature—poetry, art manifestoes, art theory—theatre, and graphic design, and concentrated its anti-war politics through a rejection of the prevailing standards in art through anti-art cultural works. Its purpose was to ridicule what its participants considered to be the meaninglessness of the modern world. In addition to being anti-war, dada was also anti-bourgeois and anarchistic in nature.



this is copy from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dadaism .



If art was to appeal to sensibilities, Dada was intended to offend.

as i think the dadaism just make the traditional artwork into a funny way` or make something unusual.


an artist from that time

Richard Hamilton


Just What Is It that Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing?

artworks of the 50's pursuit of the European middle-class way of life:beauty male and female , tape recorders, television sets, vacuum cleaners, romantic movie ... .... These things with a picture collage of the way together. Which, like that bodybuilders like handsome men, took the hands of a lollipop, a huge lollipop above trademark is "POP", is the lollipop signs, just in English on the "popular", the popular , popular, popular simplification of the word is "POP".

more eg:



Strong Venus de Milo?


the scream of Simpsons?

12/02/2010

cubism? myself```(no idea about this art)

cubism--the art i dont understand


(Modern Portraits Cubism Discount Art Wholesale Reproductions Oil Paintings)


Cubism was a 20th century avant-garde art movement, pioneered by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, that revolutionized European painting and sculpture, and inspired related movements in music and literature. The first branch of cubism, known as Analytic Cubism, was both radical and influential as a short but highly significant art movement between 1907 and 1911 in France. In its second phase, Synthetic Cubism, the movement spread and remained vital until around 1919, when the Surrealist movement gained popularity.
In cubist artworks, objects are broken up, analyzed, and re-assembled in an abstracted form—instead of depicting objects from one viewpoint, the artist depicts the subject from a multitude of viewpoints to represent the subject in a greater context. Often the surfaces intersect at seemingly random angles, removing a coherent sense of depth. The background and object planes interpenetrate one another to create the shallow ambiguous space, one of cubism's distinct characteristics.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubism)


I think it just composed block use straight line and curve mix together. and not look at things from a point of view, different perspectives from which to observe and understand.

11/29/2010

Angle ---- kress & van leeuwen



The function of vertical angles is widely noted: high angles (looking down on a depicted person from above) are interpreted as making that person look small and insignificant, and low angles (looking up at them from below) are said to make them look powerful and superior.

high angle depicts a relationship in which the producer of the image and the viewer have symbolic power over the person or thing represented

low angle depicts a relationship in which the depicted person has power over the image-producer and the viewer


Horizontal camera angles. Moving the camera around the subject horizontally while aiming at the subject creates different camera angles below:












Eg:




this two people talking to each other. and the viewer- us just like not inside it.



Vertical camera angles. Moving the camera around the subject vertically while aiming at the subject creats different camera angles below:








High angle. The camera is placed above eye level, looking downward. A high angle shot can make a character look smaller, younger, weak, confused, or more childlike.
Eye level. Most commonly used.
Low angle. The camera is placed below eye level, looking upward. A low angle shot can make a character look bigger, stronger, or more noble. It also gives the impression of height.

11/25/2010

Symbolism

:I have draw the symbolism in the AI.
Symbolism of Infinity



Symbolism of Blind


Symbolism of Absolute

Symbolism (arts)






As I think the symbolism is about one or some object/picture that can be a symbol of other things. Through the symbols, metaphors and decorative screen to show the dream of illusion to enlightenment to others.

Eg:
Freedom




Women


Power


Man


11/22/2010

Event

City Art

Event Snapshot

When:

  • On Monday 22 November from 18.00PM to 19.00PM
  • On Tuesday 23 November from 12.30PM to 13.30PM
  • On Sunday 28 November from 15.00PM to 16.00PM

Where:

Customs House, 31 Alfred Street Circular Quay 2000 Venue details

Cost:

Free

More Info:

City of Sydney 02 9265 9333 cmorgan@cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au

How to get to this event:

Circular Quay trains, buses and ferries.




still life

Film Club





Join us in the theatre for free screenings of 1920s classics, kung-fu and gangster flicks, romantic comedies, documentaries, propaganda movies and experimental films. (All have either English soundtrack or English subtitles.) Each session is preceded by a short talk and followed by informal discussion. Next up, on Dec. 5, is Jia Zhang-Ke’s acclaimed Still Life (2006). Set in a town partly submerged by the giant Three Gorges dam project, it follows a miner and a nurse who run into each other while looking for their long-lost partners.

When: First Sunday of every month, 2 p.m. EXCEPT January, when we will meet on the fourth Sunday, January 23, to view In the Mood for Love (see below).

Where: White Rabbit Gallery Theatrette, 2nd floor

How much: FREE

Contact: Phyllis Rowlinson: prowlinson[at]whiterabbitcollection.org, tel. (02) 8399 2867

23 January 2011: In the Mood for Love (2000), directed by Wong Kar-Wai, is about a man and a woman in the same Hong Kong apartment building who, cheated on by their spouses and determined not to fall so low, find themselves increasingly attracted to each other—until fate intervenes.

white rabbit


White Rabbit

The White Rabbit Collection is one of the world’s largest and most significant collections of contemporary Chinese art. Founded by Kerr and Judith Neilson, it focuses on works produced after 2000.

The origins of the Collection go back to the late 1990s, when Judith Neilson engaged Wang Zhiyuan, a Chinese artist then living in Sydney, as her art tutor. He introduced her to the astonishing explosion of creativity taking place in China in the wake of the “Opening Up” that had begun in 1989. Mrs Neilson began buying works, but soon ran out of space to hang them. She and her husband then decided to open a gallery that would make the exciting world of contemporary Chinese art available to all Australians.

The White Rabbit Gallery, a specially converted knitting factory near Sydney’s Central Station, has four floors of exhibition space as well as a theatrette, a library and a teahouse. Only a fraction of the Collection is on show at any time. The entire contents of the gallery are rehung twice a year.

(Ps: http://www.whiterabbitcollection.org/)


Opening Hours

Thursday – Sunday
10am – 6pm

There is NO entry fees.

Gallery address

White Rabbit
30 Balfour Street Chippendale NSW 2008 Australia




My favorite piece of art




Artist details


Xiong Wenyun(熊文韵)
Born in Chongqing China 05/1955
1979---1983 Graduated From The Dept.of Chinese Painting,Art Institute of Sichuan Prov.
1991---1993 M.A.student of the Japanese Painting in the Art Research Dept .of Tsukuba University.
1994---1997 Guest Research Member of Fine Arts Research Section of Bunkyo University, Japan
Living and working in Beijing


What Xiong Wenyun think about "Koong Koong":
"Koong Koong" is the sort of person

"'Koong Koong', I have compiled from the shape of a ring. The ring has four tentacles, and its shape not only like animals, like a plant, but also as the body parts." Xiong Wen Yun said, "In this ring Inspired, I cut it into three of the four tentacles, as distinct from human and animal ears. the top of the head of the three small angle is not the ear, that the three organs that can grow when allowed flowers, grass, trees, or even release the gas or missile or something. "

What i felt about "Koong Koong". The first time i had hear the name i feel soooo cute.and i had named one of my friend as "kongkong". so i get more attention of this printing. as i saw the printing i feel all the face of "koong koong"just like myself. every face will be a part of my life, and also when i was young it could be one of my dream.


My least favorite piece of art


Artist details
Cao Xiaodong
Born:
Lianyungang City, Jiangsu, 1961. Lives and works in Beijing

The reason i am not really like this picture is when i saw this printing i can't get any idea of it. and hard to understand this without explain. and i think this kind style is far away form now, its hard to understand that artist want to tell us.

11/15/2010

The Direct Gaze make me feel comfortable




Cat is my favorite animals. every time when i saw it i feels happy. spacial for this cat, its eye looks soooooo cute. it's eyes just like it ask me:" Hello, am i cute?"

The Direct Gaze make me feel uncomfortable





The reason this photo let me feel uncomfortable that's because the dog lost the freedom, it need to be caged. The expression in it's eyes is very sad. when i just see the photo i got feeling is i dont want see it. it makes me sad.

Gaze

Gaze
Look at something without blinking; Focus on watching something.

Direct Gaze

The viewer and represented 's sight intersect together. viewer looks at the people inside the picture. the represented also looks like focus on the viewer.










Indirect Gaze

The viewer look at the picture and focus on it. but the represented is looks at somewhere else.

11/08/2010





this photo i had use filter of palette knife in PS.

Impressionism


Vincent Willem van Gogh

Impressionist painting is a landmark in the history of Western painting art , seventies and eighties of the 19th century reached its peak, its influence throughout Europe, and gradually spread around the world, but it is made in France, the most brilliant artistic achievements .

Impressionism painting: not based on reliable knowledge to make an instant impression of painting. Artists to capture the characteristics of the side to do a painting, so they must darting brush to color directly applied to the canvas, they can only give more consideration to the overall effectiveness of the painting, with less regard to minor details.

About the painting

In the short-term ups and downs but also a brilliant Van Gogh's life, his <> is one of my favorite paintings. Some people say when they see the sunflowers feels himself so small. My feeling is that the life of the combustion. That is actually the spirit of his temperament. A nervous man's performance. He has repeatedly described the theme of sunflower still life, he loved to put a lot sunflowers in his room. He said: "I want to draw on half a dozen of the" Sunflower "to decorate my studio, "







week 1 painting of "Mona Lisa Smile"





Producer : Leonardo da Vinci

everyone could be a viewer for this painting"Mona Lisa Smile". as i think when my feeling is change i feel Mina Lisa' face going to change as will. in different feeling; different angle; light; u will feel she looks different.

this Painting was the upstart hero Joe Condo's young wife Mona Lisa, painting painting for 4 years. At that time, Mona Lisa's youngest son had just died, and she has been in mourning, depressed. In order for the hostess gets excited Leonardo da Vinci invited musicians and comedians when he is painting, try everything to make the Mona Lisa happy. The painting is complete, dignified and beautiful face of the mysterious Mona Lisa smile dumping of countless people.