Thursday, April 26, 2007
Thursday, April 19, 2007
Art/ Cultural event (4)
14th March 2007: Metropolitan Museum of Arts
During the trip to New York in spring break, I went to 4 museums. I was so impressed by the art works. Most importantly, I can feel the way people appreciate art and respect art in US, in NYC.
Metropolitan Museum of Arts is the most famous museum in Manhanttan (I guess). It is so huge that one day is not enough for walking around. I had very strong feeling about the displayed items. Since I didn’t have time, I just walked around theme exhibition, Egypt, the Asian historical arts, and the western painting sections.
The effort and time people put in investigation is appreciated. Thousands and thousands of ancient Egypt accessories, drawing, letters, sculptures, and mummies were kept in good condition. Here are some pictures I took in the exhibition.
When I was walking in the Chinese historical section, my heart felt pain. I have never seen such a big collection of Chinese ancient ‘evidence’. On one hand, I feel bad because American took our national properties and show them in their own country proudly. On another hand, the pain was mainly from shame. Chinese people are so unaware of our past. While foreigners treated the little pieces as treasures, Chinese treated them as trash.
The Western painting section was my favorite. I used to learn painting when I was younger. I haven’t picked my paint and brushes for years. The paintings are really amazing and perfect.
I hope some day; we can also have a great museum like this in our country. A museum collects all kinds of art work in the past and present.
During the trip to New York in spring break, I went to 4 museums. I was so impressed by the art works. Most importantly, I can feel the way people appreciate art and respect art in US, in NYC.
Metropolitan Museum of Arts is the most famous museum in Manhanttan (I guess). It is so huge that one day is not enough for walking around. I had very strong feeling about the displayed items. Since I didn’t have time, I just walked around theme exhibition, Egypt, the Asian historical arts, and the western painting sections.
The effort and time people put in investigation is appreciated. Thousands and thousands of ancient Egypt accessories, drawing, letters, sculptures, and mummies were kept in good condition. Here are some pictures I took in the exhibition.
When I was walking in the Chinese historical section, my heart felt pain. I have never seen such a big collection of Chinese ancient ‘evidence’. On one hand, I feel bad because American took our national properties and show them in their own country proudly. On another hand, the pain was mainly from shame. Chinese people are so unaware of our past. While foreigners treated the little pieces as treasures, Chinese treated them as trash.
The Western painting section was my favorite. I used to learn painting when I was younger. I haven’t picked my paint and brushes for years. The paintings are really amazing and perfect.
I hope some day; we can also have a great museum like this in our country. A museum collects all kinds of art work in the past and present.
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Sunday, April 15, 2007
Art/ Cultural event (3)
7th March, 2007
Art Lecture: Candidate of Faculty member— Chris Coleman
Frankly, I like this lecture very much. Not only because of the interesting ideas behind the works of the artist; I gave credits to the artist’s good presentation skill.
Before becoming an artist, Chris Coleman was a Mechanical Engineer. I guess his former occupation did affect the choice of art works he makes. Before we listen to any information from him, he used a video clip as an introduction of his presentation.
It was a 3-minutes video clip shooting a chimney keeps producing and take-in the smoke it produces. The video have no narrative, no words, no information about the idea of this art works. Instead, there was breathing sound kept repeating in 3 minutes.
Some people may find that irritating. Honestly, I was bored by the video and wonder what message he wants to give before his explanation. The artist explained, we are actually breathing with the factory everyday, especially in city. The sky may look clear and clean, but the pollutants are actually collaborated in the air. Everyone of us should be condemned of pollution, because we buy the products and seldom aware of the pollution problem.
I appreciate his idea of putting environmental-friendly in art work; yet, the idea was hard to get without the artist’s explanation.
Another interesting work of Chris Coleman was the animation.
The animation he made was actually composed of the images we can see from airplane brochure. He brought out the fear and terror, safety and hazard ideas. He tried to use the same language to bring every daily event in a piece.
More of his art works could be found on his web site.
Art/ Cultural event (2)
2nd March, 2007
Art Lecture: Candidate of Faculty member-- Patrick Kelley
This was my second time to attend art lecture. The first one was Baldessari which is very different from the one that we had with Patrick Kelley. Since I was a few minutes late for the lecture (I’m so sorry about that), I missed the introduction of the artist. When I first got into the lecture room, I didn’t know who he is and what kind of art that he performs. However, I must give credits to his well-organized presentation. The smooth flow and stages of his changes and transformations were clearly shown step by step. I am not going to summary each part of his lecture, but some characteristics of his artworks could be easily extracted.
First of all, I would like to talk a little bit about his background. He was a Biology major, but he dropped it and changed to Art major as he found his interested in it. He started as a photographer, catching natural images around him. Most of the pictures he took are plants, ice, snow, pebbles and wood. His sense of color contrast (mostly black, grey white) impressed me. Even he took some ordinary pebbles or rocks beside the river, can give me a sense of peace and seems conveying messages to audiences.
Throughout the years from his first pick up of art and up until now, I can easily tell his transformation or his focuses on different aspects. The following is the sequence of his change of views:
Framing, space/ scale, link, connection, movement, involvement, sound/audio effect, imagination, and lately computer technology.
His change from capturing still picture to moving objects is interesting and showed linkage between different kinds of art. Although the speaker was a little bit nervous, I appreciate his artworks and his presentation.
Here I found some website related to Patrick Kelley:
This is his official website; you can find most of the information of him or his artwork.
and this one is just a one page description about this artist. You can browse it for more background information of Patrick Kelley.
I guess this one is the most interesting one among all website of the artist. It is about the flipbooks that he created. He also showed some of it in the lecture!
Art Lecture: Candidate of Faculty member-- Patrick Kelley
This was my second time to attend art lecture. The first one was Baldessari which is very different from the one that we had with Patrick Kelley. Since I was a few minutes late for the lecture (I’m so sorry about that), I missed the introduction of the artist. When I first got into the lecture room, I didn’t know who he is and what kind of art that he performs. However, I must give credits to his well-organized presentation. The smooth flow and stages of his changes and transformations were clearly shown step by step. I am not going to summary each part of his lecture, but some characteristics of his artworks could be easily extracted.
First of all, I would like to talk a little bit about his background. He was a Biology major, but he dropped it and changed to Art major as he found his interested in it. He started as a photographer, catching natural images around him. Most of the pictures he took are plants, ice, snow, pebbles and wood. His sense of color contrast (mostly black, grey white) impressed me. Even he took some ordinary pebbles or rocks beside the river, can give me a sense of peace and seems conveying messages to audiences.
Throughout the years from his first pick up of art and up until now, I can easily tell his transformation or his focuses on different aspects. The following is the sequence of his change of views:
Framing, space/ scale, link, connection, movement, involvement, sound/audio effect, imagination, and lately computer technology.
His change from capturing still picture to moving objects is interesting and showed linkage between different kinds of art. Although the speaker was a little bit nervous, I appreciate his artworks and his presentation.
Here I found some website related to Patrick Kelley:
This is his official website; you can find most of the information of him or his artwork.
and this one is just a one page description about this artist. You can browse it for more background information of Patrick Kelley.
I guess this one is the most interesting one among all website of the artist. It is about the flipbooks that he created. He also showed some of it in the lecture!
Art/ Cultural event (1)
7th February, 2007
Art History Lecture: Heather McGuire on contemporary conceptual artist John Baldessari
This is the first art lecture I attended this semester. When the Lecturer started presenting, this first image we saw was a photograph of the artist, Baldessari standing in one of his Gallery with his works as background. This photograph is my favorite pieces among all the slides she has shown in the presentation.
The gallery has sky color carpet and the LA transport system on the ceiling. The reverse of “rightness” in our mind aroused my interest to know more about this artist.
Actually, I was quite impressed by the artist’s “rebellious”. There was a quote of his WRONG definition(1967); he said a piece of art work could be wrong to others, but right to the artist himself. I believe he was one of the supporters of the ‘everything could be an art” concept.
He said that “language” is a material in making art. In 1971, he invited different people to write “I will not make any more boring art” repeatedly on the wall. The different handwritings and different colors of paints people used composed an interesting image, an art.
Sometimes when I draw or making digital imaging, I hesitate to add words on my artwork. Words could help expressing the information; it could also ruin the whole idea of the art work if it is not used appropriately.
“Language is not transparent.” (1970)
However, after appreciating John Baldassari’s art works, I feel easier when I have to make decision on using language on art work or not.
And he is really cool because he took picture of pencil before and after sharpening it. (The Pencil Story 1972-1973) Sharpening a pencil could be also defined as art, I can also call my works as art confidently.
Here is a link to John Baldassari's web page. Besides the art works, interviews, bibliography etc., it is a well designed web site which worth spending time on studying.
Art History Lecture: Heather McGuire on contemporary conceptual artist John Baldessari
This is the first art lecture I attended this semester. When the Lecturer started presenting, this first image we saw was a photograph of the artist, Baldessari standing in one of his Gallery with his works as background. This photograph is my favorite pieces among all the slides she has shown in the presentation.
The gallery has sky color carpet and the LA transport system on the ceiling. The reverse of “rightness” in our mind aroused my interest to know more about this artist.
Actually, I was quite impressed by the artist’s “rebellious”. There was a quote of his WRONG definition(1967); he said a piece of art work could be wrong to others, but right to the artist himself. I believe he was one of the supporters of the ‘everything could be an art” concept.
He said that “language” is a material in making art. In 1971, he invited different people to write “I will not make any more boring art” repeatedly on the wall. The different handwritings and different colors of paints people used composed an interesting image, an art.
Sometimes when I draw or making digital imaging, I hesitate to add words on my artwork. Words could help expressing the information; it could also ruin the whole idea of the art work if it is not used appropriately.
“Language is not transparent.” (1970)
However, after appreciating John Baldassari’s art works, I feel easier when I have to make decision on using language on art work or not.
And he is really cool because he took picture of pencil before and after sharpening it. (The Pencil Story 1972-1973) Sharpening a pencil could be also defined as art, I can also call my works as art confidently.
Here is a link to John Baldassari's web page. Besides the art works, interviews, bibliography etc., it is a well designed web site which worth spending time on studying.
Thursday, April 12, 2007
My first web site
I tried to make 2 web pages in class!~
It's not pretty, coz it's jus a test! enjoy^^
This is my my first web site
It's not pretty, coz it's jus a test! enjoy^^
This is my my first web site
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Links inspiration
http://www.laurengreenfield.com/
http://www.temple.edu/photo/photographers/spring03/photographers/heatherduffy/duffy2/greenpics/index.html
http://www.discoverhongkong.com/login.html
http://www.temple.edu/photo/photographers/spring03/photographers/heatherduffy/duffy2/greenpics/index.html
http://www.discoverhongkong.com/login.html
Wednesday, April 4, 2007
Response to Reading assignment
When I was reading the article, I wonder if I was reading the right assignment. I couldn’t find anything related to Art. Instead, I felt like I was reading science journal. The scientific terms and facts confused me. However, the central idea gradually became clearer when the history developed to ‘Internet’, the more familiar word.
I read one of the paragraphs about categorizing different websites into six domains: Org Gov Edu Com Net Mil. Actually I always have a silly question. Is there any organization which monitors the registration? I mean, is it possible if people want to register as “.gov” for fun?
I sort of like the way the writer compare between ‘English’ and ‘Internet’. Nobody own English, not even English speaking person, so as the internet. Every user can feel free to utilize and exploit this domain; yet, internet is a public properly which belongs to no one.
I feel like this article is merely about the development of internet history. I was quite surprised by the quick development of internet. Actually it doesn’t have a long history (one article can illustrate most of them!), but its speed of improvement was really amazing.
About the oil website, it brought out the same controversial topic- fluctuation price of oil. Similar to internet technology, both of them change in every minute. I like the way they presented the importance of oil. They use the price of oil to replace all prices originally in US dollars.
It reminds us that oil is the public property everyone should protect and save. Over-exploitation could lead to serious danger. Same as the case of internet, internet is a good pool resources that everyone have rights to enjoy, but the mis-use of it could destroy everything one day.
I read one of the paragraphs about categorizing different websites into six domains: Org Gov Edu Com Net Mil. Actually I always have a silly question. Is there any organization which monitors the registration? I mean, is it possible if people want to register as “.gov” for fun?
I sort of like the way the writer compare between ‘English’ and ‘Internet’. Nobody own English, not even English speaking person, so as the internet. Every user can feel free to utilize and exploit this domain; yet, internet is a public properly which belongs to no one.
I feel like this article is merely about the development of internet history. I was quite surprised by the quick development of internet. Actually it doesn’t have a long history (one article can illustrate most of them!), but its speed of improvement was really amazing.
About the oil website, it brought out the same controversial topic- fluctuation price of oil. Similar to internet technology, both of them change in every minute. I like the way they presented the importance of oil. They use the price of oil to replace all prices originally in US dollars.
It reminds us that oil is the public property everyone should protect and save. Over-exploitation could lead to serious danger. Same as the case of internet, internet is a good pool resources that everyone have rights to enjoy, but the mis-use of it could destroy everything one day.
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