Judy Darragh ‘s exhibition at Two Rooms Gallery, Newton until 1, Aug. 2009.
Judy’s art practice has been distinctive as she consistently works on the margins, railing against conventions and expectations. From early works in the late 1980s made from op-shop materials and ready made material. She uses cheap material to DIY and remake into colorful objects with luxury visual effects. It’s quite different to the simplicity style with France’s although they both use non-valued material to make something from nothing. Judy reflects that “The maxim of the Bahaus, which I loved studying at school, was ‘less is more’, So when I started out I took the opposite approach of ‘more is more’ and embarked on making things with a passion, teaching at secondary school during the day, getting up at 5am on a Sunday to go to the markets and plugging in the glue gun at night.”
“Art news New Zealand, autumn 2009”
2009年10月28日 星期三
Rita Angus- Life and Vision, Auckland Art Gallery, 1, Aug. - 1, Nov., 2009
Rita Angus- Auckland Art Gallery, 30, Aug., 2009
Rita Angus, 12, Mar., 1908 ~ Jan., 1970, New Zealand painter, is well known for her portraits and landscapes.
Her drawing with the combining aspects of her western heritage. She painted as she wished.
' Everything I paint has the sense of being alive', ' My pacifism and my painting are all closely linked.', 'In my will to work is my will to live'-said by Angus.
For Angus, art was often a very private activity. She contributed all her life to serve the arts. She is also a keen gardener. I was attracted by her delicated water color drawing. A series of irises, the flowing texture with fine details on the petals. The variations of heart-touching color changings. Her drawing(Iris) presents the elegance and beauty interested in Iris history symbols in arts and leterature. Traditionally, the Iris is associated with faith, wisdom and courage. She grew irises at her Clinton home and painted them many times. To create this watercolour, she carefully observed them from bud to bloom, paying attention to the texture of petals as they caught light. For me, Iris is also one of my favourite flowers. I once tried to paint iris into porcelain. A porcelain painting can be removed or corrected if any errors on the plate before firing. I admire Angus drawing skills, the composition, the light catching and the gesture of lines, water color drawing is absolutely more challenging.
Rita Angus, 12, Mar., 1908 ~ Jan., 1970, New Zealand painter, is well known for her portraits and landscapes.
Her drawing with the combining aspects of her western heritage. She painted as she wished.
' Everything I paint has the sense of being alive', ' My pacifism and my painting are all closely linked.', 'In my will to work is my will to live'-said by Angus.
For Angus, art was often a very private activity. She contributed all her life to serve the arts. She is also a keen gardener. I was attracted by her delicated water color drawing. A series of irises, the flowing texture with fine details on the petals. The variations of heart-touching color changings. Her drawing(Iris) presents the elegance and beauty interested in Iris history symbols in arts and leterature. Traditionally, the Iris is associated with faith, wisdom and courage. She grew irises at her Clinton home and painted them many times. To create this watercolour, she carefully observed them from bud to bloom, paying attention to the texture of petals as they caught light. For me, Iris is also one of my favourite flowers. I once tried to paint iris into porcelain. A porcelain painting can be removed or corrected if any errors on the plate before firing. I admire Angus drawing skills, the composition, the light catching and the gesture of lines, water color drawing is absolutely more challenging.
2009年10月27日 星期二
Peter Lambert in Flagstaff gallery ,13, Aug - 7 Sep., 2009
Flagstaff Gallery : 30 Victoria Road, Devon Port, Auckland 222, Aug., 2009
Peter Lambett was born in Howera in 1945. He has been exhibiting for over 30 years. He has been exhibiting for over 30 years. He once studied lithography at Elam scholl of Fine
Arts in Auckland. In recent years, Peter experienced refing his techniques and his new prints developent with multiple images.
"By paintin on small boards I can record the light, weather and features of the landscape that catch my eyes. These paintings can then be arranged in groups that have thematic elements." Peter has been living and working as a full-time artist in Taranaki since 1982.
His works with etching and enamel on boards. The fluids of linear design looks simple but powerful. The multipled images with different characters were arrange in groups on the panel. The painting " Get over it you guys, enamel on board" The gesture of hair from three subjects. They seem to confront and argue something. The viewer can feel the nervous atmosphere from the panel.
Peter Lambett was born in Howera in 1945. He has been exhibiting for over 30 years. He has been exhibiting for over 30 years. He once studied lithography at Elam scholl of Fine
Arts in Auckland. In recent years, Peter experienced refing his techniques and his new prints developent with multiple images.
"By paintin on small boards I can record the light, weather and features of the landscape that catch my eyes. These paintings can then be arranged in groups that have thematic elements." Peter has been living and working as a full-time artist in Taranaki since 1982.
His works with etching and enamel on boards. The fluids of linear design looks simple but powerful. The multipled images with different characters were arrange in groups on the panel. The painting " Get over it you guys, enamel on board" The gesture of hair from three subjects. They seem to confront and argue something. The viewer can feel the nervous atmosphere from the panel.
A world tour of Pressed Flower Art Exhibition by Shanshan Shiao
"Wandering Comfortably in the Floriculture" -Fo Guang Yuan Art Gallery 1 1/9 _ 22/11/2009, 23, Sep., 2009
Shanshan Shiao is a Taiwanese press-flower artist. She likes flower and has learnt flower arrangement. She felt the life of plant is termporary and tried to explore the way of pressing flower after further researching. Her art works combine the varieties of her religion, culture background and her art aesthetics. It is amazing about her delicated art works with collaged effect by pressed flowers. I feel curious about the way for making such a stunning work with vivid color from pressed flowers. How come to keep the pressed flowers so colorful and long lasting? According to the guide in Fo Guang Yuan Art Gallery, the colors come from the natural color of plants without any artificial dying process. She is a Buddhist and her religious belief is oftern reflected in her works. They usually take the form of Buddhist scroll paintings and focus on images of Buddhas and Buddist saints, while her other works depict animals and insects.
Her art pieces depict lovely images of birds and animals in Chinese ink and washed painting.
The rich and vivid colors of her works show her delicacy, grace and even the spirit of peace. The flower show with the beauty to bring joy and happiness to those who see it.
Her works are narrative an sensational. It's worthwhile to view the exhibition again.
Shanshan Shiao is a Taiwanese press-flower artist. She likes flower and has learnt flower arrangement. She felt the life of plant is termporary and tried to explore the way of pressing flower after further researching. Her art works combine the varieties of her religion, culture background and her art aesthetics. It is amazing about her delicated art works with collaged effect by pressed flowers. I feel curious about the way for making such a stunning work with vivid color from pressed flowers. How come to keep the pressed flowers so colorful and long lasting? According to the guide in Fo Guang Yuan Art Gallery, the colors come from the natural color of plants without any artificial dying process. She is a Buddhist and her religious belief is oftern reflected in her works. They usually take the form of Buddhist scroll paintings and focus on images of Buddhas and Buddist saints, while her other works depict animals and insects.
Her art pieces depict lovely images of birds and animals in Chinese ink and washed painting.
The rich and vivid colors of her works show her delicacy, grace and even the spirit of peace. The flower show with the beauty to bring joy and happiness to those who see it.
Her works are narrative an sensational. It's worthwhile to view the exhibition again.
2009年10月17日 星期六
Eldon Booth
Eldon Booth, 9, Oct., 2009
Eldon now is doing an collaborative work with Juddy Darrah and Deborah Crowe. In the beginning of his talk, he mentioned about film convention. And some introduction related to the film field and skills which I would like to make assortment and put into my categories. Genres
Genres are formed by sets of conventions. Sometimes the iconography in the fil m that inform us of the genre. Like Westerns usually have good and bad cowboys. The film genres are assorted into comedy, action, foreign, children, family, western, music, war, thriller, romance, horror, drama, China town, documentary….and so on which I learnt after surfing from Video shop.
Convention
‘Cconvention’, meaning the way in which something is “usually” done. We can identify recurring elements with regard to narrative themes,characters, plots, sound and visual content(iconography)
The convention of ‘China Town’ just likes the movie “Chinatown’, the film was full of power struggles, a sense of darkness and helplessness
The continuity editing
Also called as ‘Chronological Editing’, logically move camera, not sudden. One event follows naturally on another. A story from start to end continuously happens. It is a linea of movement. Seamlessness is a key effect of continuity editing.
Cross cutting
The camera will cut away from one action to another action. The shots occur one after another, cross cutting is used for different actions happen in the same time. Cross Cutting was created by “Birth of Nation by D.W. Griffith-Trailer(1915)
The Kuleshov Effect
1910 and 1920 Russian filmmaker Lev Kuleshov used the experiment to indicate the usefulness and effectiveness of film editing. The viewer brought their own emotional reaction and attribute to actor.
Montage(French word means putting together)
Image A, image B without any relationship, bring them together and create a third meaning. Montage is seen to operate in several ways, opposite colors, light and rhythmic tonal. Sergei Eisenstein was known as the father of Montage. It’s amazing that Eisensten used the creative Montage method to combine the scenes to make the film with special meaning in it. The movie“Battleship Potemkin” in 1920. Sergei Eisenstein noted that montage is “the nerve of cinema” and that to “to determine the nature of montage is to solve the specific problem of cinema”.
With reviewing the contextual content from Rebecca’s moving image which we just completed last term, I had a further understanding about movie making. It is related a conventional drawing, the illusion of reality -the form is visible, using editing techniques to do camera editing, cut and paste format.
Eldon Booth’s representative documentary film-“Withdrawal” , 2001 and “Five Good Reasons”, 2006
In “Withdrawal”, I find the use of two two frame within the picture very appealing as a device that raises the viewer awareness the editing and the filmmaking process The contrast living style from the environment between an elderly man and a young people.“Five Good Reasons”, a long dialogues between 2 characters, a man seeks his identification for his thoughts and observation on society. Focusing on stories relating to the human condition and social concerns in New Zealand communities.
I just learnt very basic concept and editing techniques from Rebecca. It was challenging for me especially using the film editing with the software of Premier. During only 5 weeks course, I had a refreshing idea about film making. Film making is a fantastic creation as an art form. Comparing Elton’s 2 short film, obviously, the later one had much professional editing. The indentification, I might experiment to depict indigenous images into my practice from my culture. I would be mostly based on the visual imagery rather than the thinking of identification. The work I intend to focus on the impact of the visual effect instead of the implied meaning of identification.
Eldon now is doing an collaborative work with Juddy Darrah and Deborah Crowe. In the beginning of his talk, he mentioned about film convention. And some introduction related to the film field and skills which I would like to make assortment and put into my categories. Genres
Genres are formed by sets of conventions. Sometimes the iconography in the fil m that inform us of the genre. Like Westerns usually have good and bad cowboys. The film genres are assorted into comedy, action, foreign, children, family, western, music, war, thriller, romance, horror, drama, China town, documentary….and so on which I learnt after surfing from Video shop.
Convention
‘Cconvention’, meaning the way in which something is “usually” done. We can identify recurring elements with regard to narrative themes,characters, plots, sound and visual content(iconography)
The convention of ‘China Town’ just likes the movie “Chinatown’, the film was full of power struggles, a sense of darkness and helplessness
The continuity editing
Also called as ‘Chronological Editing’, logically move camera, not sudden. One event follows naturally on another. A story from start to end continuously happens. It is a linea of movement. Seamlessness is a key effect of continuity editing.
Cross cutting
The camera will cut away from one action to another action. The shots occur one after another, cross cutting is used for different actions happen in the same time. Cross Cutting was created by “Birth of Nation by D.W. Griffith-Trailer(1915)
The Kuleshov Effect
1910 and 1920 Russian filmmaker Lev Kuleshov used the experiment to indicate the usefulness and effectiveness of film editing. The viewer brought their own emotional reaction and attribute to actor.
Montage(French word means putting together)
Image A, image B without any relationship, bring them together and create a third meaning. Montage is seen to operate in several ways, opposite colors, light and rhythmic tonal. Sergei Eisenstein was known as the father of Montage. It’s amazing that Eisensten used the creative Montage method to combine the scenes to make the film with special meaning in it. The movie“Battleship Potemkin” in 1920. Sergei Eisenstein noted that montage is “the nerve of cinema” and that to “to determine the nature of montage is to solve the specific problem of cinema”.
With reviewing the contextual content from Rebecca’s moving image which we just completed last term, I had a further understanding about movie making. It is related a conventional drawing, the illusion of reality -the form is visible, using editing techniques to do camera editing, cut and paste format.
Eldon Booth’s representative documentary film-“Withdrawal” , 2001 and “Five Good Reasons”, 2006
In “Withdrawal”, I find the use of two two frame within the picture very appealing as a device that raises the viewer awareness the editing and the filmmaking process The contrast living style from the environment between an elderly man and a young people.“Five Good Reasons”, a long dialogues between 2 characters, a man seeks his identification for his thoughts and observation on society. Focusing on stories relating to the human condition and social concerns in New Zealand communities.
I just learnt very basic concept and editing techniques from Rebecca. It was challenging for me especially using the film editing with the software of Premier. During only 5 weeks course, I had a refreshing idea about film making. Film making is a fantastic creation as an art form. Comparing Elton’s 2 short film, obviously, the later one had much professional editing. The indentification, I might experiment to depict indigenous images into my practice from my culture. I would be mostly based on the visual imagery rather than the thinking of identification. The work I intend to focus on the impact of the visual effect instead of the implied meaning of identification.
2009年10月16日 星期五
Fran Allison, 16, Oct., 2009
Fran Allison-16, Oct., 2009/10/17
Collaboration and Collectives
Collaboration : Work jointly esp in a literary or artistic production. Oxford Englishi dictionary.
Collective: Collectives have become a main stream production.
1. Formed by or constituting a collection.
2. Taken as a whole; aggregate.
3. Of or from several individuals; common.
4. Any cooperative enterprise.
In the last 10 years , collaborative art practice has become a main stream production. It could exist whether in the music, drama, cooking, film making drawing, social activities………, it is happening all the time and growing extensively in the art world. Collaboration is largely extended as a kind of art form which artists can operate. The artists can get benefits from the relationship of collaboration to obtain more skills and inspire each other during the engagement. The effects will reflect on their art practices helping the artists to explore and develop new concept
and creation.
Fran introduced some her collective practices on her jewellery, objects making. The exhibition 'Random Findings’ in ‘Fingers’, 2004, her works is about a process of rediscovery. She chose to produce for the exhibition by working randomly. Through re-using and re-looking at exist-objects kept on boxes or shelves she collected. She seems having a lot of fun with a kind of liberation for the objects and material that excite her.
After finish random pieces, she felt want to make formal project with jewellery making. She started the project related to the weeds in 2005. ‘Weeds’ jewellery in terms of her experiments about the garden varieties, from house to garden with a kind of collaborative way. The weeds group, Fran Allison, Andrea Daly, Shelly Norton and Lisa Walker. She is inspired from the collaborative work and has a lot of fun during the experiments and exploration each other. Different member with different idea and tartget about their works. Like Andrea gets more serious about market, money…. She doesn’t matter so much about the successful or not. Some resolution within the discussion, it’s about something share and organize. She found it’s really good thing from collaboration and the dialogue is helpful.
Basically, art collectives come in various sizes and formats. The art collaboration exits in the life, not only in the gallery. Rirkrit Tiravanija, Untitled(FREE), 1992. – share the meal that he cooked. The participators talking and eating in the space-is an art work. He can set up the place but can not control the final work from collaboration. As Joseph Beuys’s famous phrase - ‘ Everyone is an artis’.
For my future practice, I would like to work collaboratively that would help me to explore further learning with others. Collaboration might extend and broaden my individual practice. If I continue the education next year, I wish to produce an animation using LEGO or Bear Brick figures or some other toys. I wish to invite some good guys to join the collaborative group.
http://www.collabarts.org/ entered 16, Oct., 2009
http://modernedition.com/art-articles/art-cllectives/art-collectives.html entered 16, Oct., 2009
Collaboration and Collectives
Collaboration : Work jointly esp in a literary or artistic production. Oxford Englishi dictionary.
Collective: Collectives have become a main stream production.
1. Formed by or constituting a collection.
2. Taken as a whole; aggregate.
3. Of or from several individuals; common.
4. Any cooperative enterprise.
In the last 10 years , collaborative art practice has become a main stream production. It could exist whether in the music, drama, cooking, film making drawing, social activities………, it is happening all the time and growing extensively in the art world. Collaboration is largely extended as a kind of art form which artists can operate. The artists can get benefits from the relationship of collaboration to obtain more skills and inspire each other during the engagement. The effects will reflect on their art practices helping the artists to explore and develop new concept
and creation.
Fran introduced some her collective practices on her jewellery, objects making. The exhibition 'Random Findings’ in ‘Fingers’, 2004, her works is about a process of rediscovery. She chose to produce for the exhibition by working randomly. Through re-using and re-looking at exist-objects kept on boxes or shelves she collected. She seems having a lot of fun with a kind of liberation for the objects and material that excite her.
After finish random pieces, she felt want to make formal project with jewellery making. She started the project related to the weeds in 2005. ‘Weeds’ jewellery in terms of her experiments about the garden varieties, from house to garden with a kind of collaborative way. The weeds group, Fran Allison, Andrea Daly, Shelly Norton and Lisa Walker. She is inspired from the collaborative work and has a lot of fun during the experiments and exploration each other. Different member with different idea and tartget about their works. Like Andrea gets more serious about market, money…. She doesn’t matter so much about the successful or not. Some resolution within the discussion, it’s about something share and organize. She found it’s really good thing from collaboration and the dialogue is helpful.
Basically, art collectives come in various sizes and formats. The art collaboration exits in the life, not only in the gallery. Rirkrit Tiravanija, Untitled(FREE), 1992. – share the meal that he cooked. The participators talking and eating in the space-is an art work. He can set up the place but can not control the final work from collaboration. As Joseph Beuys’s famous phrase - ‘ Everyone is an artis’.
For my future practice, I would like to work collaboratively that would help me to explore further learning with others. Collaboration might extend and broaden my individual practice. If I continue the education next year, I wish to produce an animation using LEGO or Bear Brick figures or some other toys. I wish to invite some good guys to join the collaborative group.
http://www.collabarts.org/ entered 16, Oct., 2009
http://modernedition.com/art-articles/art-cllectives/art-collectives.html entered 16, Oct., 2009
2009年10月11日 星期日
Richard Orjis-02, Oct., 2009
Captured from the magazine during the lecture.Richard Orjis – 2, Oct., 2009
Richard’s works are varied from people, nature, still life and art photography. Mainly focuses on the element of people. Using the real visual image to create a mysterious atmosphere from his created fiction world. A series of photographs with the American Gothic boys in the wheat field, relate to the religion and sexuality. They are hiding somewhere secretly to play a game with sexuality only belong to their own world. Despite the metaphoric meaning behind the image, the composition and colors combination with an extraordinary aesthetics from the artist. I really like these art works which he created in 2004.
Richard’s works are varied from people, nature, still life and art photography. Mainly focuses on the element of people. Using the real visual image to create a mysterious atmosphere from his created fiction world. A series of photographs with the American Gothic boys in the wheat field, relate to the religion and sexuality. They are hiding somewhere secretly to play a game with sexuality only belong to their own world. Despite the metaphoric meaning behind the image, the composition and colors combination with an extraordinary aesthetics from the artist. I really like these art works which he created in 2004.
A male figure faces the camera. He is heavily festooned with flowers – orchids mainly. Orchids have long been known as “the sexiest flowers on earth” . Artist have exploited it as a symbol of sexual metaphor to make the art forms with different mediums. Richard uses Photoshop to do editing for the flowers and collages on the portrait. I am wondering he uses the way so boldly. Living in this century, artist might have more flexibility to utilize the scientific technology into the contemporary arts and it has become more common. The head this portrait is spreadly smudged with grey mud. The wreaths of orchids is beautiful, but with the mud-head and dark background highlights the effect of mysterious emotions. An idol as a representation of a God used as an object of worship. The emerged dark space from the origin. It means the beginning, the source of world also with the hint of “ there’s something else going on”. It inspires my curiosity about Richard’s Empire of Dirt. This image widely reproduced within 3 years only. Overall, Richard’s works might seem like working with many different things. But everthing seems come from the same source and the same concerns around him. It’s all related to the nature, cult, myth and the gothic.
Richard Orjis’s works present in both places of galleries and magazines. The art can be viewed in the magazine or advertisement become a public art and get wide range of audience. And the audience also get more benefits from the reviewing from the convenient source. The longer I looked at the images the deeper I felt addicted and enchanted into the fiction world which Richard have created. For my future pactice on my art work, I will try to exploit the methods broadly including tradition or new technology to combine my imagery into the art. Experiment and find the new way to express and display my works.
Ribecca Ann Hobbs, 25, Sep., 2009
Rebecca Ann Hobbs-25,Sep, 2009
In the beginning of the lecture, Rebecca talked about the apparatus, a still camera, and some images of art works, how the ideas interest and amuse her. “Yves Klein, Leap into the void “ 1960-it’s quite a visual things and the idea related to the subject in movement. I once read an article introduction before from an art magazine about this work. Yves Klein leaps from window into the blue sky because he likes the blue and wishes to catch and engaged himself into the blue. He created a blue which was especially known as Klein blue. The camera captured the temporary action to feeze it becoming a drawing forever. It’s the magic of photography. A series of self-portraits in 2001 in which Rebecca pictures herself with a range of creatures from different species. The photographs have been digitally manipulated to intensify the color. “The Complex Social Group”, “Flight into the Mouth”.... The isolated subject sitting in the center wearing old clothes with a certain stylish awkwardness. The chaos v.s order, things in control or out of control. The relationship between the blurred blue of pigeons and the still image of subject presents an extraordinary weird atmosphere. The series of images, a human and another species-birds, possums, a dog, a squid, a stuffed fox, snails and a spider, inspires my imagination with its metaphoric potential meaning, it’s related to a philosophy issuing-misunderstanding.
The role of research in the process of Rebecca’s work is very significant. Find the context , research and try to understand who is your friend (context) from the visual sign-art. From a starting point with arbitrary to present your idea and represent it. To construct a mind map from a point to another point. The research makes a clear pathway more in depth and more critical to her work. From research to think of the tangents and strategies and plan her art work. During the making and experiment to do the resolution. The resolution in terms of the inside/outside, imagined/real, past/present, still/moving...., to negotiate the space between these observed binaries in a celebratory manner. Aesthetics is important to her works as well. “The Continental Aesthetics Reader” by Clive Cazeaux inspired her and has made a big influenced on her cocept about the beauty. She spent a few years to get it from the book and still likes to make image with beautiful.
The final video with a black man spraying water in a green house. The Dolly moves around the subject with continuity editing. The audience travels and follows the movement of camera and subject. She spent 4 months to organize the film and 6 people to hit it with collaborative work. I can not imagine how can spent such a long time to organize a short film. She is an art worker with very careful manner to organize and proceed her work. At the moment, most of my works create by instinct or randomly. The process of her practice suggests me to make a further development more in depth and broadly. Some times I felt lost during the research for lots of tangents. Just like her talking in lesson, must constantly ask if this relates to my artwork. This is I have to do and develop from more practice and experience.
In the beginning of the lecture, Rebecca talked about the apparatus, a still camera, and some images of art works, how the ideas interest and amuse her. “Yves Klein, Leap into the void “ 1960-it’s quite a visual things and the idea related to the subject in movement. I once read an article introduction before from an art magazine about this work. Yves Klein leaps from window into the blue sky because he likes the blue and wishes to catch and engaged himself into the blue. He created a blue which was especially known as Klein blue. The camera captured the temporary action to feeze it becoming a drawing forever. It’s the magic of photography. A series of self-portraits in 2001 in which Rebecca pictures herself with a range of creatures from different species. The photographs have been digitally manipulated to intensify the color. “The Complex Social Group”, “Flight into the Mouth”.... The isolated subject sitting in the center wearing old clothes with a certain stylish awkwardness. The chaos v.s order, things in control or out of control. The relationship between the blurred blue of pigeons and the still image of subject presents an extraordinary weird atmosphere. The series of images, a human and another species-birds, possums, a dog, a squid, a stuffed fox, snails and a spider, inspires my imagination with its metaphoric potential meaning, it’s related to a philosophy issuing-misunderstanding.
The role of research in the process of Rebecca’s work is very significant. Find the context , research and try to understand who is your friend (context) from the visual sign-art. From a starting point with arbitrary to present your idea and represent it. To construct a mind map from a point to another point. The research makes a clear pathway more in depth and more critical to her work. From research to think of the tangents and strategies and plan her art work. During the making and experiment to do the resolution. The resolution in terms of the inside/outside, imagined/real, past/present, still/moving...., to negotiate the space between these observed binaries in a celebratory manner. Aesthetics is important to her works as well. “The Continental Aesthetics Reader” by Clive Cazeaux inspired her and has made a big influenced on her cocept about the beauty. She spent a few years to get it from the book and still likes to make image with beautiful.
The final video with a black man spraying water in a green house. The Dolly moves around the subject with continuity editing. The audience travels and follows the movement of camera and subject. She spent 4 months to organize the film and 6 people to hit it with collaborative work. I can not imagine how can spent such a long time to organize a short film. She is an art worker with very careful manner to organize and proceed her work. At the moment, most of my works create by instinct or randomly. The process of her practice suggests me to make a further development more in depth and broadly. Some times I felt lost during the research for lots of tangents. Just like her talking in lesson, must constantly ask if this relates to my artwork. This is I have to do and develop from more practice and experience.
2009年9月6日 星期日
Dion Hitchens
The Brooklyn Museum
Banksy was captured by musem video camera(hang on the drawing)
View the drawing
Pick up his drawing for hanging.
Dion Hitchens
28, 07,2009
Choose an example of public art from the class and discuss how you think it relates to the public domain, how is it successful and unsuccessful?
The wall is the domain for graffiti artists. Banksy is one of my favorite graffiti artistsl. Nobody can make certain about his real name. He is commonly believed and has been widely reported, Robert of Robin Banks. He was born at 1974 or 1975 and raised in Bristol in England. His street art combines with graffiti writing and distinctive stenciling techniques. Last term, I once researched one of his work “Naked Man on the wall of a sexual health clinic 2006”. The street art made by stencil with a striking and humorous image. He purposely pained it on the wall of a sexual health clinic in Bristol city of England to draw everyone’s eye. Of course, it caused a lot of argument between the public and city council. The controversy makes the public discussion to decide whether it should stay on the side of a building or be removed. However the graffiti still stays on it and more controversial discussion about the graffiti can be considered as an art or a vandalism. How did Banksy's graffiti become legitimate from subversive? What's the boundary between main stream art and street art?
In August, 2005, Banksy painted nine images on the Israeli West Bank Barrier, including an image of a ladder going up and over the wall and an image of children digging a hole through the wall. The wall was constructed by Israel during the occupied West Bank and forced
thousands of Palestinians out of their home. During the contextual lesson, we were introduced a series of his graffiti in 2007. He , as an anti-war hero, has struck again in The Holy Land. A series of his stenciled works on the security wall in Bethlehem. With six new images including a big dove wearing a flak jacket and a solder being
frisked by a young girl…. The wall separating Israel from the Palestinian West Bank is controversial. Supporters argue that the barrier is necessary to protecting Israel civilians from Palestinian terrorism. The construction is illegal.
Banksy hides his identity to doubt the unfair around our environment in the world. He struggles and attacks against the political policy, the system of museum at an unique interesting way with his brush without knife and gun. People feel more curious about him because his personal uncertain indentify make him more mysterious. I am sure his art works combine his concept and his personal philosophy is a great accomplishment. He insists the spirit of graffiti-tag, announce, space and judge. His works couldn’t make an enormous effect immediately for the policy decision, those still have change people’s mind to have further thinking to doubt the existed fact and occurred big reflection from the public. Where is his next target?
I wish one day his art work will appear in Auckland!
28, 07,2009
Choose an example of public art from the class and discuss how you think it relates to the public domain, how is it successful and unsuccessful?
The wall is the domain for graffiti artists. Banksy is one of my favorite graffiti artistsl. Nobody can make certain about his real name. He is commonly believed and has been widely reported, Robert of Robin Banks. He was born at 1974 or 1975 and raised in Bristol in England. His street art combines with graffiti writing and distinctive stenciling techniques. Last term, I once researched one of his work “Naked Man on the wall of a sexual health clinic 2006”. The street art made by stencil with a striking and humorous image. He purposely pained it on the wall of a sexual health clinic in Bristol city of England to draw everyone’s eye. Of course, it caused a lot of argument between the public and city council. The controversy makes the public discussion to decide whether it should stay on the side of a building or be removed. However the graffiti still stays on it and more controversial discussion about the graffiti can be considered as an art or a vandalism. How did Banksy's graffiti become legitimate from subversive? What's the boundary between main stream art and street art?
In August, 2005, Banksy painted nine images on the Israeli West Bank Barrier, including an image of a ladder going up and over the wall and an image of children digging a hole through the wall. The wall was constructed by Israel during the occupied West Bank and forced
thousands of Palestinians out of their home. During the contextual lesson, we were introduced a series of his graffiti in 2007. He , as an anti-war hero, has struck again in The Holy Land. A series of his stenciled works on the security wall in Bethlehem. With six new images including a big dove wearing a flak jacket and a solder being
frisked by a young girl…. The wall separating Israel from the Palestinian West Bank is controversial. Supporters argue that the barrier is necessary to protecting Israel civilians from Palestinian terrorism. The construction is illegal.
Banksy hides his identity to doubt the unfair around our environment in the world. He struggles and attacks against the political policy, the system of museum at an unique interesting way with his brush without knife and gun. People feel more curious about him because his personal uncertain indentify make him more mysterious. I am sure his art works combine his concept and his personal philosophy is a great accomplishment. He insists the spirit of graffiti-tag, announce, space and judge. His works couldn’t make an enormous effect immediately for the policy decision, those still have change people’s mind to have further thinking to doubt the existed fact and occurred big reflection from the public. Where is his next target?
I wish one day his art work will appear in Auckland!
2009年8月28日 星期五
Steve Lovett
David Wojnarawicz 1991 Photostat one day
Mother and Daughter by Steve Lovett
Millennium Walking 2000 by Steve LovettSteve Lovett
21, Aug., 2009
Aspects of an artist identity can define their practice. Discuss how the role of identity is important in the practice of Steve Lovett and then how it might be important in your own art making.
21, Aug., 2009
Aspects of an artist identity can define their practice. Discuss how the role of identity is important in the practice of Steve Lovett and then how it might be important in your own art making.
As an art educator who are struggling to acquire new skills. Continually adventured the unfamiliar conceptual and mechanical field into the connection between tradition and new technologies of image-making. His work adds an additional focus of how new imaging technologies impact on more traditional print making practices. Much of his work is printed. Printed images are nomadic by nature. They are about recording, processing and transmission information.
His research are primarily concerned with questions of time , transition, loss and the narratives of location and displacement. Exploiting the techniques of audio and typography with the images to imply the conflict and emotion between his identification with the society, culture even the politics and history.
Glenn Ligon, Glenn Ligon, October 27 - December 8, 2007; No Room (Gold) #13, 2007
Around the time of the Million Man March in Washington DC ,the American painter Glenn Ligon observed that the way that painting looks in on itself was no longer enough. There was a need use something other than paint to make an image. From that time on Ligon has used language and photography to respond to the world.
By early the early 1990s the impact of HIV AIDS on his world was that painting was set aside for something more able to report events from the world. Maybe not more truthful, but certainly more direct.
David Wojnarowicz 1991 Photostat One Day
Wojnarowicz makes his social and political circumstances, his sexual orientation is the center of his work.
It’s a life © Steve Lovett 1992
Formally some concerns with the voice of the subject becoming present in the work. This piece is perhaps the first work where narrative becomes expressed through patterns of speech. Narration being means to metabolize the world and our experience of it.
Millennium Walking 2000. commissioned by the Tautai Trust .
Vinyl billboard 2.8 m X 48 m. © Steve Lovett.
The work is the transcription of a series of interviews and conversations with people in the immediate area, The piece developed a visual solution - looking for a typographic solution for the spoken word. The collaborators introduced their mates to volunteer a story to the archive-it make the work became a network, it's a kind of social activity.
The Millennium Walking piece deployed a similar visual solution - looking for a typographic solution for the spoken word.
A series slides with detailed introduction about Steve’s works. Steve as an open gay man tells his own stories through his print works. The shift s of the process on his works into the exploration about the issues of identity. The identification about his sexual orientation, and his then and now. It’s related to “who you are?”, where are you from”, and “how did you grow up?”, “What’s majority culture?”.
The identification of himself impact on his works. It’s not only an art work but an social, political issues. The art became an accused tool to tell his own story over grief in the public. The art is public, it belongs to the audience.
As a Taiwanese in New Zealand, sometimes I feel isolated from the majority society where I am now .There are many contradictions between my cultural background and the surroundings around me. I might experiment to depict indigenous images into my practice from my culture, like the motifs from Taiwanese Mountain People (There are 13 tribes of the native people in Taiwan). I would be mostly based on the visual imagery rather than the thinking of identification. The work I intend to focus on the impact of the visual effect instead of the implied meaning of identification.
2009年8月22日 星期六
Deborah Crowe
1)Bridge riley Chant 2 1967
2)Tokyo Ito Blurring Architecture 2001
Discuss the idea of containment in relation to Deborah Crowe’s work.
14, Aug, 2009
Deborh Crowe has always been fascinated by the construction and lines from the architecture. She talked about one of her fascinating building “Forth Railway Bridge”, North Queens Ferry, Scotland while her childhood. It interns of –how it constructed? How the intersection of lines form the sense of geometry?
The organized brainstorm self training with a scientific way is very helpful for her development and exploring into her art works. She thinks herself as a 'practitioner' rather than as an 'artist' to point to the range of practices she engages.One of her proposal for The Public Art Gallery, Dunedin-try to make moving image. What’s it looks like between night and day.”Shift 2000 all part of one world”, the viewers experiment the three dimension form and their shadow drawing. Shadow drawings create an environment which presents a series of contradictions. A spacious yet crowed environment where light woven form have a heaviness to them.She creates the space between the art works and viewers ,to regenerate the contradiction by the light and shadow from the inspiration of architectures, textiles.
She also works around the restrictions of the body and how the body can be contained in many different ways. A collaborative fashion work , “fashion for the future “. People must feel horrible to wear a cloth like a construction with heavy copper material. The containment with 3 D internal and external space. Her work is like and constructed building mounted on the body of model. A clothing on the body restricts the movement of the body. The containment of her using way with contradiction on the work. It makes me feel quite different visual view to her work. Not only the effect of visual and space about an art work. It’s related to the thinking about an installation work on the stage.
During the lecture, I am very interested to know the introduction about some artists inspiring to Debora’s work.
Researching and thinking in depth is very important to compact to the process of Deborah’s work. Overall her habit for the practice way to her work that I would follow the way into my work. The way to regenerate and develop a work is very scientific proven.
Bridget Riley’s work On Chant 2, 1967-No painter, dead or alive, has never made as more aware of our eyes than Bridget Riley.-said by Debora.
Toyo Ito-Blurring Architectur, 8/8 ~8/9, 2007 Sydney, Australia
“Since the mid 1970s, Toyo Ito has been one of the world's most innovative and influential architects, creating new concepts for life in modern cities, searching for an architecture appropriate to our electronic, image-oriented consumer society. Ito describes his latest project, the Mediatheque (media and culture centre) in Sendai, northern Japan, as the culmination of his quest to fuse the physical and virtual worlds. Its unusual function and radical steel-tube structural system have forged new approaches to spatial definition, building services, circulation and construction. Its floors hang on penetrating conduiting masts. Just opened, the Mediatheque is innovative at every level. The centre piece of Blurring Architecture will be a spectacular four channel data projection, where building plans and schematics for the Mediatheque are overlaid and animated, with a soundtrack by electronic composer Ryoji Ikeda.” (From http://www.artspace.org.nz/exhibition%20/2001/blurringarchitecture.asp)
Naham Tevet-Seven walks, Dundee 2004
(http://www.tevet.net/)
Julius Shulman (October 10, 1910 – July 15, 2009) was an American architectural photographer best known for his photograph "Case Study House #22[1], Los Angeles, 1960. Pierre Koenig, Architect." The house is also known as The Stahl House. Shulman's photography spread California modernism around the world. Through his many books, exhibits and personal appearances his work ushered in a new appreciation for the movement beginning in the 1990s. His vast library of images currently reside at the Getty Center in Los Angeles. His contemporaries include Ezra Stoller and Hedrich Blessing. In 1947, Julius Shulman asked architect Raphael Soriano to build a mid-century steel home and studio in the Hollywood Hills.[2]Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman
http://www.juliusshulmanfilm.com/about-the-film/
Researching and thinking in depth is very important to compact to the process of Deborah’s work. Overall her habit for the practice way to her work that I would follow the way into my work. The way to regenerate and develop a work is very scientific proven.
2009年8月20日 星期四
Mary Curtis
2009/8/21
Mary Curtis
Artists working in contemporary jewellery and crafts use a wide range of methods for presenting their works. Use some of the example we looked at in class, from Object Space, and say how you think their presentation helps create meaning and helps the audience understanding the ideas/conceptual side of the work.
The Object Space on Ponsonby Road, one of the leading gallery spaces supporting contemporary jewellery and crafts practice. Mary involved the establishment of Object Space for 3 years from start to open. Being an organized contemporary object artist, she had very purposely contributed into it for the need of the social community, the artist, objects and the audience.
An art work placing in the space of a gallery is related to the relationship of the art work, the space, gallery and the viewer. How to place the work in the space to present the artist ideas and help the viewer understanding the concept and the power from the art. To build up the atmosphere from the work and space to fascinate the viewer and create the imagination by the audience.
6th Sep. 2008 – 4th Oct., 2008
Material : Various materials
Lisa Walker-Unwearable
All the small art works with various materials –unwearable, putting on the colorful prints. Is it a maze? What is the game ? It’s a provocation for unwearable of jewelleries. It’s an exciting and innovative installation for the object and space. Being unwearable, each small object putting on individual print with different bright color looks more confident on its location. It’s not related to the function of wearing on the body. They bring to mind jewellery experiments which liberate the common concept to the jewellery. And draw the view’s attention to the object itself.
Numbers one to Eleven
Maker: Tony Bond
Material : Ceramic, wood, enamel paint, installation works.
Tony is a Christchurch sculptor, Tony Bond works occasionally with ceramics. He describes Formuchculae as, “decorative objects for the twenty-first century. The pots as a everyday life homeware put on the wall with the function of decoration. Make the focus on the decoration instead of pot’s’ usual function. Put all stuff together and they look similar but can see the differences between them.
I found it’s very interesting to know different way for the installation and the concept about arts presentation from different artists in the space of gallery. It’s a further thinking about the installation related the meaning of artwork itself. That’s why Mary needed spent 6 hours to do to put the layout of tiny objects in the cabinet in the exhibition of “stuff” in fingers gallery 2001.
Mary Curtis
Artists working in contemporary jewellery and crafts use a wide range of methods for presenting their works. Use some of the example we looked at in class, from Object Space, and say how you think their presentation helps create meaning and helps the audience understanding the ideas/conceptual side of the work.
The Object Space on Ponsonby Road, one of the leading gallery spaces supporting contemporary jewellery and crafts practice. Mary involved the establishment of Object Space for 3 years from start to open. Being an organized contemporary object artist, she had very purposely contributed into it for the need of the social community, the artist, objects and the audience.
An art work placing in the space of a gallery is related to the relationship of the art work, the space, gallery and the viewer. How to place the work in the space to present the artist ideas and help the viewer understanding the concept and the power from the art. To build up the atmosphere from the work and space to fascinate the viewer and create the imagination by the audience.
6th Sep. 2008 – 4th Oct., 2008
Material : Various materials
Lisa Walker-Unwearable
All the small art works with various materials –unwearable, putting on the colorful prints. Is it a maze? What is the game ? It’s a provocation for unwearable of jewelleries. It’s an exciting and innovative installation for the object and space. Being unwearable, each small object putting on individual print with different bright color looks more confident on its location. It’s not related to the function of wearing on the body. They bring to mind jewellery experiments which liberate the common concept to the jewellery. And draw the view’s attention to the object itself.
Numbers one to Eleven
Maker: Tony Bond
Material : Ceramic, wood, enamel paint, installation works.
Tony is a Christchurch sculptor, Tony Bond works occasionally with ceramics. He describes Formuchculae as, “decorative objects for the twenty-first century. The pots as a everyday life homeware put on the wall with the function of decoration. Make the focus on the decoration instead of pot’s’ usual function. Put all stuff together and they look similar but can see the differences between them.
I found it’s very interesting to know different way for the installation and the concept about arts presentation from different artists in the space of gallery. It’s a further thinking about the installation related the meaning of artwork itself. That’s why Mary needed spent 6 hours to do to put the layout of tiny objects in the cabinet in the exhibition of “stuff” in fingers gallery 2001.
2009年8月6日 星期四
Frances Hansen
Week 18 31, July
Materials are important In Frances Hansen's practice. Say something about the materials she works with and reasons for choosing them, how does this relate to the idea of Gleaning? You can extend this by discussing the exhibitions we visited this week and the work of Judy Darragh. Go on to write about the materials you choose for use in your studio practice. What are they and why do you choose them?
Materials are important In Frances Hansen's practice. Say something about the materials she works with and reasons for choosing them, how does this relate to the idea of Gleaning? You can extend this by discussing the exhibitions we visited this week and the work of Judy Darragh. Go on to write about the materials you choose for use in your studio practice. What are they and why do you choose them?
It’s very interesting that Frances uses many varieties of material in her collection from the environment in her everyday life. These material including the package, wrapping paper, recycled bread tags, notes with text, canes, bottles, letter box, card board, bed post and board. She collects the recycled material and exploits those into her art workings. The combination of her thinking and imagination putting into her art works to recreate and renew the life of recycled material. This is a project about dissolution and re-materialization.
Sometimes the nothing-material became her source of objective images on her drawing. The process of painting, arranging and composing these images on the panel. Simplify the composition with clean images and spacing in simple color tones. Her drawing in the library looks like an un-finished work with simple composition which can make me feel very peaceful. It’s absolutely very suitable to hang in the library.
She collects the leftover stuffs randomly after shopping and hopes those can be used into her art works in the future. The process of collected bits and pieces, brought together by selection into the art works are very French practice of gleaning. She still continues and enjoys collecting what’s leftovers after using and shopping because it can amuse herself.
The work I practice on art must include the elements of my thinking, illustration and aesthetics. In contemporary art, it has became more flexible for artist to explore more and more mediums in it. I don’t mind what kind of medium on my works, but the works should be based on visual aesthetic. I prefer to collect some stunning decorated porcelain because I am used to do China Painting on porcelain. Toys and DVDs collection already became our family activities.
The Gleaning that means taking what’s left, gathering and revalue nothing into something. In Agnes Varda’s film Les Glaneurs et la Glaneuse(The Gleaners and I)
The Gleaners François Millet (1857) . In the beginning of film, In this depiction of the rural life of nineteenth century France, we see three female figures gathering the leftovers after the harvest. It is known as gleaning. The un-shaped potatoes, some comes with heart are discarded by the farmers can be undertaken by the poor after harvest. The gleaning is still existed in modern society in French. It’s a kind of social issuing in French.
Judy Darragh ‘s exhibition at Two Rooms Gallery, Newton until 1, Aug. 2009. Judy’s art practice has been distinctive as she consistently works on the margins, railing against conventions and expectations. From early works in the late 1980s made from op-shop materials and ready made material. She uses cheap material to DIY and remake into colorful objects with luxury visual effects. It’s quite different to the simplicity style with France’s although they both use non-valued material to make something from nothing. Judy reflects that “The maxim of the Bahaus, which I loved studying at school, was ‘less is more’, So when I started out I took the opposite approach of ‘more is more’ and embarked on making things with a passion, teaching at secondary school during the day, getting up at 5am on a Sunday to go to the markets and plugging in the glue gun at night.”
“Art news New Zealand, autumn 2009”
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~waste/timeline/story-pic1.html
2009年7月30日 星期四
Emma McLellan
Jul., 24,2009/7/31
Emma McLellan
Emma’s latest exhibition ,Silk Purse from a Sow’s Ear, in The Lane Gallery, 33 Victoria St East, Auckland during Jun till 4, Jul.
From the beginning of slide introduction, her animal visual diary in 1993, she always enjoys the repetitive things, the animal and animal-human relation argument. Her work has a long time featured animals. Emma’s works with exploration of the ideas of hybrids and genetically altered animals. The animals from encyclopedia, and design or collage by Photoshop to re-create the creature. The sheep in the centre with wings and tail in Silk Purse from a Sour's Ear II(Woodblock Print, Drawing,, Ink, Acrylic pen) looks very strange and mysterious. Combine with the decorative wall paper or fabric pattern in 19 century by screen prints and paintings. The high lighting around the animal makes it more obvious from the painting. The simple color tones with white, blue-green, black and light brown present the antique-like effects. It also makes this painting imply the atmosphere of ancient mythology.
Most of her workings employ the modern technology of computer to cut the images and join together to make the design. And re-combine them with decorated patterns from Wall paper or fabric. She uses a lot of patterns which were designed by Williams Morris in 19 century. Emma has the passion about antique wallpapers, furniture and fabric. Explored multiple variation through screen prints and painting. The unique prints with paint are handmade, non-mechanical. Her work is created intuitively, printing on painted panels, and then scrubbing back to reveal layers of print and paint. She is happy with mistakes, not hope the print to be perfect. Must have some missing. There are almost 20 layer each painting. The in-perfec and fading off effects make her painting more like and traditional painting from Victorian era.
Emma’s paintings can be used for the kitchenware design. Especially the antique like design is suitable to the pattern on porcelain and jewellery. As I know, she likes anything sparkling with interesting detailing. Her design attach with porcelain or jewellery will become high quality production and popular by the porcelain collectioners.
Emma McLellan
Emma’s latest exhibition ,Silk Purse from a Sow’s Ear, in The Lane Gallery, 33 Victoria St East, Auckland during Jun till 4, Jul.
From the beginning of slide introduction, her animal visual diary in 1993, she always enjoys the repetitive things, the animal and animal-human relation argument. Her work has a long time featured animals. Emma’s works with exploration of the ideas of hybrids and genetically altered animals. The animals from encyclopedia, and design or collage by Photoshop to re-create the creature. The sheep in the centre with wings and tail in Silk Purse from a Sour's Ear II(Woodblock Print, Drawing,, Ink, Acrylic pen) looks very strange and mysterious. Combine with the decorative wall paper or fabric pattern in 19 century by screen prints and paintings. The high lighting around the animal makes it more obvious from the painting. The simple color tones with white, blue-green, black and light brown present the antique-like effects. It also makes this painting imply the atmosphere of ancient mythology.
Most of her workings employ the modern technology of computer to cut the images and join together to make the design. And re-combine them with decorated patterns from Wall paper or fabric. She uses a lot of patterns which were designed by Williams Morris in 19 century. Emma has the passion about antique wallpapers, furniture and fabric. Explored multiple variation through screen prints and painting. The unique prints with paint are handmade, non-mechanical. Her work is created intuitively, printing on painted panels, and then scrubbing back to reveal layers of print and paint. She is happy with mistakes, not hope the print to be perfect. Must have some missing. There are almost 20 layer each painting. The in-perfec and fading off effects make her painting more like and traditional painting from Victorian era.
Emma’s paintings can be used for the kitchenware design. Especially the antique like design is suitable to the pattern on porcelain and jewellery. As I know, she likes anything sparkling with interesting detailing. Her design attach with porcelain or jewellery will become high quality production and popular by the porcelain collectioners.
www.nzherald.co.nz/viva-magazine/news
2009年6月17日 星期三
george o'keeffe
First time I knew Georgio O'keeffe was from the slide during the lecture in DVA this year. The slide introduced Judy Chicago's installation art "Dinner Party" (1979), the Dinner Party composed in part of thirty nine plates with vaginal imagery honoring thirty-nine women from prehistory to the early twentieth century.From screen, Georgio O'keeffe's work was set on the first place at left side from the angle. We were introduced Chicago's Dinner Party drew criticism from many feminists for what they believed to be its ' essentialism', or its association between women and an essential biological quality like the possession of a vagina, although it was enormously popular with the general public. Georgia O'keeffe's flower- vagina like art was so obviously, I could not help cennecting to the sexuality. In the library, there is a book related to O'keeffe and the women of the Stieglitz circle "Modernism and the Feminine Voice" during my research about the gender and feminism. I was charmed by her fantastic drawing especially her unique drawing style related to the various flowers, and her neurotic appearance. I felt more curious about O'keeffe's background and her art.
Georgia O'keeffe(1887 ~1986) was born in a farm house on a large dairy farm outside of Sun Prairie, Wisconsin on Nov. 15, 1887, the second of seven children. As a child she received art lessons at home, and she was recognized and encouraged by teacher for her brilliant art abilities through out her school years. When she was in the eighth grade she had determined to make her way as an artist. "I am going to be an artist!" " I don't really know where I got my artist idea... I only know that by that time it was definitely settled in my mind." http://www.ellensplace.net/okeeffe3.html
During her study in school, she was influenced by some teachers. One particular teacher, Elizabeth Willis encouraged her to work at her own pace and afforded her opportunities that the other students felt unfair. 1905~1906, she studied at the Art Institute of Chicago. 1907~1908, at the Art students League, New York, then moved to Chicago to find a work as a commercial artist. During this period, she quit her brush for the sake of the smelly of turpentine. 1912, she went to Texas as a drawing teaching position. In the same time, she took a summer course for art teachers at the University of virginia.1912 ~1914, She taught art in Texas public schools and working summers in Virginia s Bement's assistant. Another teacher, Arthur Wesley Dow had made big influence on her about the idea for art making. Dow believed that the goal of the artist's personal ideas and feelings and that such subject matter was best realized through harmonious arrangements of line, color and notan(the Japanese system of lights and darks). He encorage O'keeffe experited with Dow's ideas for an alternative to imitative realism. She then decided to try Dow's theories to the test. In an attempt to discover a personal language through which she could express her own feelings and ideas.She tried a series of abstract charcoal drawing of the period.
u take time to look at what I saw and when you took time to really notice my flower you hung all your own associations with flowers on my flower and you write about my flower as if I think and see what you think and see of the flower - and I don't.
- Georgia O'Keeffe
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/okeeffe_georgia.html
Georgia O'keeffe(1887 ~1986) was born in a farm house on a large dairy farm outside of Sun Prairie, Wisconsin on Nov. 15, 1887, the second of seven children. As a child she received art lessons at home, and she was recognized and encouraged by teacher for her brilliant art abilities through out her school years. When she was in the eighth grade she had determined to make her way as an artist. "I am going to be an artist!" " I don't really know where I got my artist idea... I only know that by that time it was definitely settled in my mind." http://www.ellensplace.net/okeeffe3.html
During her study in school, she was influenced by some teachers. One particular teacher, Elizabeth Willis encouraged her to work at her own pace and afforded her opportunities that the other students felt unfair. 1905~1906, she studied at the Art Institute of Chicago. 1907~1908, at the Art students League, New York, then moved to Chicago to find a work as a commercial artist. During this period, she quit her brush for the sake of the smelly of turpentine. 1912, she went to Texas as a drawing teaching position. In the same time, she took a summer course for art teachers at the University of virginia.1912 ~1914, She taught art in Texas public schools and working summers in Virginia s Bement's assistant. Another teacher, Arthur Wesley Dow had made big influence on her about the idea for art making. Dow believed that the goal of the artist's personal ideas and feelings and that such subject matter was best realized through harmonious arrangements of line, color and notan(the Japanese system of lights and darks). He encorage O'keeffe experited with Dow's ideas for an alternative to imitative realism. She then decided to try Dow's theories to the test. In an attempt to discover a personal language through which she could express her own feelings and ideas.She tried a series of abstract charcoal drawing of the period.
u take time to look at what I saw and when you took time to really notice my flower you hung all your own associations with flowers on my flower and you write about my flower as if I think and see what you think and see of the flower - and I don't.
- Georgia O'Keeffe
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/okeeffe_georgia.html
2009年6月4日 星期四
Indegenous Narratives
"Le Folauga ",the past coming forward contemporary PacificA art from Aotearoa New Zealand 12, Dec, 2008 ~05, Apr, 2009 Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts. An introduction related to the exhibition in Kaohsiung , the second big city in Taiwan, from an Art magazine "Artist". Le Folauga represents the past, the present and the future. It means the voyage and the changes that occur along the way. It shows the movement towards the future and traveling in the direction of the current.
Le Folauga brings sixteen Pacific artists who work with painting, sculpture, photography, video and installation. Some of them I had heard like Johny Penisula, Tatu Feu'u, Filipe Tohi, and Shigeyuki Kihara.
One of the corporated organizations is "Tautai contemporaty Pacific Arts Trust".
The name Tautai drawn on the Samoan word for navigator and,
Tautai supports the development of contemporary pacific art through activities and play an important role to promote and assist the recognition of contemporary pacific visual art artists.
The goal of Tautai is " For Pacific Artists, By Pacific Artists". It was founded in New Zealand in the 1980s.,and now located in Newton, Auckland. I wish go to view the arts if any exhibition in Tautai.
As I know The Formosan languages are the languages of the indigenous people of Taiwan. Taiwanese aborigines currently comprise about 2% of the island's population.Taiwanese aboriginal language have significance in historical linguistics, since in all likelihood Taiwan was the place of origin of the entire Austronesian language family. With similar pronunciation for " one", "two"," three" and "four" between Taiwanese aborigines and Maori. And "ear" and" eye" with the same pronunciatin with Maori's " tangira "and" mata" . The y had similar living styles,mythical stories, festivals and tatoo presenting the society status.
Unfortunately, there are fewer and fewer people can speak aborinal language in Taiwan. The goverment in Taiwan had discouraged local languages including Taiwanese, Hakka and aboriginal languages except Mandarin( the public language )over 30 years. For the past 15 years, the goverment has chaged to concentrated to the education of local culture and languages. They started the language education from primary school and established culture centers in each tribe.There are many organizations involve the activities of recovering the aboriginal traditional culture and arts. Compare to the majority culture, it's still a big gap between them. I think do something is better than do nothing. I hope the contemporay arts related to Taiwan oboriginal culture can have the chance to present internationally not only limit in local Taiwan. Like "Tautai, organized the exhibition in Taiwan. The culture communication is the best way for the education to make people understand the arts and culture in New Zealand. After checking from internet, there are many blogs introduce this exhibition even some primary students'.
http://zh.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E5%8D%97%E5%B3%B6%E8%AA%9E%E7%B3%BB&variant=zh-tw
http://www.tautai.org/artists/
http://www.artist-magazine.com/
The magazine "Artist" (Taiwan)Jan. 2009 No. 404
Le Folauga brings sixteen Pacific artists who work with painting, sculpture, photography, video and installation. Some of them I had heard like Johny Penisula, Tatu Feu'u, Filipe Tohi, and Shigeyuki Kihara.
One of the corporated organizations is "Tautai contemporaty Pacific Arts Trust".
The name Tautai drawn on the Samoan word for navigator and,
Tautai supports the development of contemporary pacific art through activities and play an important role to promote and assist the recognition of contemporary pacific visual art artists.
The goal of Tautai is " For Pacific Artists, By Pacific Artists". It was founded in New Zealand in the 1980s.,and now located in Newton, Auckland. I wish go to view the arts if any exhibition in Tautai.
As I know The Formosan languages are the languages of the indigenous people of Taiwan. Taiwanese aborigines currently comprise about 2% of the island's population.Taiwanese aboriginal language have significance in historical linguistics, since in all likelihood Taiwan was the place of origin of the entire Austronesian language family. With similar pronunciation for " one", "two"," three" and "four" between Taiwanese aborigines and Maori. And "ear" and" eye" with the same pronunciatin with Maori's " tangira "and" mata" . The y had similar living styles,mythical stories, festivals and tatoo presenting the society status.
Unfortunately, there are fewer and fewer people can speak aborinal language in Taiwan. The goverment in Taiwan had discouraged local languages including Taiwanese, Hakka and aboriginal languages except Mandarin( the public language )over 30 years. For the past 15 years, the goverment has chaged to concentrated to the education of local culture and languages. They started the language education from primary school and established culture centers in each tribe.There are many organizations involve the activities of recovering the aboriginal traditional culture and arts. Compare to the majority culture, it's still a big gap between them. I think do something is better than do nothing. I hope the contemporay arts related to Taiwan oboriginal culture can have the chance to present internationally not only limit in local Taiwan. Like "Tautai, organized the exhibition in Taiwan. The culture communication is the best way for the education to make people understand the arts and culture in New Zealand. After checking from internet, there are many blogs introduce this exhibition even some primary students'.
http://zh.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E5%8D%97%E5%B3%B6%E8%AA%9E%E7%B3%BB&variant=zh-tw
http://www.tautai.org/artists/
http://www.artist-magazine.com/
The magazine "Artist" (Taiwan)Jan. 2009 No. 404
2009年5月29日 星期五
Materiality, Affect, Site(II)
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"Rainbow Dance", 1936
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Sculpture "Fountain", 1959.bmp)
Frame from"A Color Box", 1935Len Lye(1901~1980, Christchurch, New Zealand)
He is known for his experimental films and kinetic sculpture. He was an innovative director who experimented to develop the painting with motion on the film.
Today I have seen his animation film “Rainbow Dance” , 1936.
In the beginning, a dancing man at the form of stenciled figure under the rainbow with the music. And then holding the umbrella and dance under the rain, playing tennis with different motions against a perspective road. There are many lines and patterns with the motions on the screen. It is an animation, a method of painting, scratching and stencilling directly onto motion picture. I think he presented his art form through the film. And “the Medium is the Message”. It’s creative and experimented during the period of 1930.
It’s fun to watch the film although it’s blurred and undistinguished.
When I tried to click the internet to view the film “A Color Box” ,1936, I failed to pass through.
As for his kinetic sculpture, Many of Lye's kinetic works can be found at the Govett-Brewster Gallery in New Plymouth , Taranaki, including a 45-metre high Wind Wand near the sea. The Water Whirler, “The Fountain”, 1976 which I have seen from the slid at the first lesson of line drawing.. He was famous as a innovated film director, sculptor, painter and writer.
“Rainbow Dance”, 1936
”Fountain”,1935 Frame from “A Color Box”, 1935
He is known for his experimental films and kinetic sculpture. He was an innovative director who experimented to develop the painting with motion on the film.
Today I have seen his animation film “Rainbow Dance” , 1936.
In the beginning, a dancing man at the form of stenciled figure under the rainbow with the music. And then holding the umbrella and dance under the rain, playing tennis with different motions against a perspective road. There are many lines and patterns with the motions on the screen. It is an animation, a method of painting, scratching and stencilling directly onto motion picture. I think he presented his art form through the film. And “the Medium is the Message”. It’s creative and experimented during the period of 1930.
It’s fun to watch the film although it’s blurred and undistinguished.
When I tried to click the internet to view the film “A Color Box” ,1936, I failed to pass through.
As for his kinetic sculpture, Many of Lye's kinetic works can be found at the Govett-Brewster Gallery in New Plymouth , Taranaki, including a 45-metre high Wind Wand near the sea. The Water Whirler, “The Fountain”, 1976 which I have seen from the slid at the first lesson of line drawing.. He was famous as a innovated film director, sculptor, painter and writer.
“Rainbow Dance”, 1936
”Fountain”,1935 Frame from “A Color Box”, 1935
Ref:
http://archive.sensesofcinema.com/contents/directors/07/lye.html
http://www.govettbrewster.com/LenLye/foundation/
http://www.govettbrewster.com/LenLye/foundation/
Materiality, Affect, Site(I)
Scales of Economy, 2008Smoking Gun, 2008 120 x 120cm
Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland
Scales of Economy, 2008Torpedo, 2008 painted paper tags , 420 x 420cm
Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland
Sara Hughes
Sara Hughes, born in 1971 Vancouver, CanadaLives and works in Auckland, New Zealand
Her works combined a large scale installation works and a series of paintings on the wall in the gallery . Both made use of the same imagery yet the site specific wall work was made from commercial vinyl and the paintings are painted with a brush using many layers of acrylic paint. “I deliberately wanted the works to mimic one another askig the viewer to look closely to see subtle differences and consider relationships between painting and new technology” she said. It is her aim to engage the viewer in a space to keep the eyes moving. To feel the shifting of the patterns, flows and colors with surface and space.
"Scale of Economy", 2008
Sara Hughes, born in 1971 Vancouver, CanadaLives and works in Auckland, New Zealand
Her works combined a large scale installation works and a series of paintings on the wall in the gallery . Both made use of the same imagery yet the site specific wall work was made from commercial vinyl and the paintings are painted with a brush using many layers of acrylic paint. “I deliberately wanted the works to mimic one another askig the viewer to look closely to see subtle differences and consider relationships between painting and new technology” she said. It is her aim to engage the viewer in a space to keep the eyes moving. To feel the shifting of the patterns, flows and colors with surface and space.
"Scale of Economy", 2008
Torpedo, 2008 painted paper tags, 420 x 420cm
It’s a big scale art work with the red paper tags to form a big circle .The text of the letters in the tags with“s”, “e” and a”. The art is mathematically designed by the computer and printed on the paper to install on the white wall. It is projected from the center to make the spatial affect for the viewer’s optical effect. It’s interesting to feel the objective optical patterns and flow. The longer looking it, will feel the moving of the letters. I seems to be absorbed into the center world of the circle. What’s the meaning of the letters? I guess “s” is for sensasion, “a” is for affect, and “e” is for effect or combination of the meaning of “see” to catch viewer’s eyes. It is a good brain excersise . Recently scientists understanding of the brain processes involved in the visual art are now widely available-particularly the creative visual perception process. It is a 2 dimension optical art. It’s a beauty of art in repetition. Anyway, I feel very relaxing while I am watching it.
It’s a big scale art work with the red paper tags to form a big circle .The text of the letters in the tags with“s”, “e” and a”. The art is mathematically designed by the computer and printed on the paper to install on the white wall. It is projected from the center to make the spatial affect for the viewer’s optical effect. It’s interesting to feel the objective optical patterns and flow. The longer looking it, will feel the moving of the letters. I seems to be absorbed into the center world of the circle. What’s the meaning of the letters? I guess “s” is for sensasion, “a” is for affect, and “e” is for effect or combination of the meaning of “see” to catch viewer’s eyes. It is a good brain excersise . Recently scientists understanding of the brain processes involved in the visual art are now widely available-particularly the creative visual perception process. It is a 2 dimension optical art. It’s a beauty of art in repetition. Anyway, I feel very relaxing while I am watching it.
Ref:
http://www.sarahughes.co.nz/index.aspx?site=665&page=7271
http:/www.chartwell.org.nz/art/featureworks
http:/www.chartwell.org.nz/art/featureworks
2009年5月27日 星期三
The second Marriage 1963---David Hockney
David HOCKNEYEnglish (active in USA), born 1937The second marriage 1963197.0 x 228.7 c
How does it made?
The painting is oil , gouache and collage on canvas.
This is a huge scale of the canvas work.
I think the artist painted the foreground and background first and then collage the couples which has drawn , curtain and wall paper.
Denotaion
The box like composition creates a critical context for the concept of marriage. The couple are depicted as if on show for the public and there is an uncomfortable self-consciousness about them. The groom’s face with glasses is quite dull. And the background is all black except the curtain. The bride’s face is mummy-like appearance without any emotional expression. The foreground is bright and colorful with mosaic carpet and glass desk in which putting the wine and glass cups, and red flowers. The composition for upper and lower parts with opposite color tones make an ironic mood in the picture.
How does it made?
The painting is oil , gouache and collage on canvas.
This is a huge scale of the canvas work.
I think the artist painted the foreground and background first and then collage the couples which has drawn , curtain and wall paper.
Denotaion
The box like composition creates a critical context for the concept of marriage. The couple are depicted as if on show for the public and there is an uncomfortable self-consciousness about them. The groom’s face with glasses is quite dull. And the background is all black except the curtain. The bride’s face is mummy-like appearance without any emotional expression. The foreground is bright and colorful with mosaic carpet and glass desk in which putting the wine and glass cups, and red flowers. The composition for upper and lower parts with opposite color tones make an ironic mood in the picture.
Connotation
The text with” 1” beside the groom and the glass cup, and “2” next to the bride and another cup. What’s the connection between the figure and the cups? Does it simply present who drank which cup. I have no idea If any metophonic meaning behind it.
There is also a touch of humour and irony, as it has been suggested that the male figure is a self-portrait. The wedding should be supposed with delighteness and happiness. But for the second marriage, it’s definitely different mood especially for a man. It seems that they are forced to get married. Look at this picture, I would rather say it’s like they are attending a funeral. The marriage is the grave of love.
The text with” 1” beside the groom and the glass cup, and “2” next to the bride and another cup. What’s the connection between the figure and the cups? Does it simply present who drank which cup. I have no idea If any metophonic meaning behind it.
There is also a touch of humour and irony, as it has been suggested that the male figure is a self-portrait. The wedding should be supposed with delighteness and happiness. But for the second marriage, it’s definitely different mood especially for a man. It seems that they are forced to get married. Look at this picture, I would rather say it’s like they are attending a funeral. The marriage is the grave of love.
I shop therefore I am--Barbara Kruger
Barbara Kruger
Untitled (I shop therefore I am), 1987Photographic silkscreen/vinyl 111" by 113"
The work consists of a hand by an enlarged black and white photograph
The hand is holding a tag with a message “ I shop therefore I am” in white letters against a background of red. The tag is setting in the center of the image.This phrase is changed from the famous phrase from French philosopher Rene Descartes (1596 -1650) “I think therefore I am”.
The rectangle red block with text is overlaid set on the photograph. It attracts the viewer’s attention because the white text against the red background make it more obviously. And “I shop”, “I am” with a larger letters make stronger concept for the meaning of this design. The underneath with the black and white photograph is blurred, till can recognize that the light comes from the left side. The variation of different tones from the photograph make it not too dull and bored. The border of this image with red around the image. It is like a billboard if enlarge the size of this image. I found another design with the same image which image related to which printed on a shopping bag.
It’s also like a culture advertisement to revoke the consumer culture of the society.
The text contains criticism of the consumerism culture and implies the concept of the artist. Kruger has said that "I work with pictures and words because they have the ability to determine who we are and who we aren’t.
The hyper-consumerism of the late 20th century, the commodification of sign, and Kruger remakes the sign. Her design make me feel the flow of power about the criticism for commodification society. It’s ironic that a commercial- like image with the controversial text . It’s what she is giving the form of knowledge.
The work consists of a hand by an enlarged black and white photograph
The hand is holding a tag with a message “ I shop therefore I am” in white letters against a background of red. The tag is setting in the center of the image.This phrase is changed from the famous phrase from French philosopher Rene Descartes (1596 -1650) “I think therefore I am”.
The rectangle red block with text is overlaid set on the photograph. It attracts the viewer’s attention because the white text against the red background make it more obviously. And “I shop”, “I am” with a larger letters make stronger concept for the meaning of this design. The underneath with the black and white photograph is blurred, till can recognize that the light comes from the left side. The variation of different tones from the photograph make it not too dull and bored. The border of this image with red around the image. It is like a billboard if enlarge the size of this image. I found another design with the same image which image related to which printed on a shopping bag.
It’s also like a culture advertisement to revoke the consumer culture of the society.
The text contains criticism of the consumerism culture and implies the concept of the artist. Kruger has said that "I work with pictures and words because they have the ability to determine who we are and who we aren’t.
The hyper-consumerism of the late 20th century, the commodification of sign, and Kruger remakes the sign. Her design make me feel the flow of power about the criticism for commodification society. It’s ironic that a commercial- like image with the controversial text . It’s what she is giving the form of knowledge.
Naked Man --Banksy
Naked Man on the wall of a sexual health clinic 2006The Mural is near Bristol City Council's Office, UK
The stencilled image shows a woman in her underwear standing behind a suited man leaning out of a window, the both are cropped from the window and a naked man hanging onto the ledge. It is a graffiti and stencil art with pop art. It’s on the street, the wall of a sexual health clinic in Bristol city,UK. This 2d drawing looks like 3 dimention one. The woman, the man and the naked man with a triangle composition. The red curtain by the white window, the background under the window is black. The man suit and the women’s underwear are gray and black. The naked man with skin color… those make a compatible composition and colors in the picture with the brown brick tiled wall.
The street art made by stencil with a striking and humorous image. The artist purposely painted it on the wall of a sexual health clinic to draw everyone’s eye. Of course, it caused a lot of argument between the public and city council. The controversy makes the public discussion to decide whether it should stay on the side of a building or be removed. However the graffiti still stay on it and more controversial discussion about the graffiti can be considered as an art or a vandalism. For such an interesting and fantastic art, I think it’s quite enjoyable to pass by it.
CY Twombly Untitle 1970
CY Twombly "Untitle" 1970.
Oil-based house paint and crayon on canvas, 13' 3 3/8" x 21' 1/8" (405 x 640.3 cm).
It’s a very big scale canvas. Despite the scale, people will think it’s a graffiti by an innocent kid. The composition of the lines scribble evenly all over the black canvas. The volume of the lines seem the fur from an animal.Further checking the details, the white fluid, continuous lines with horizontal direction writing goes smoothly and naturally. The only subjects on the canvas is the repetitive, overlaid lines. Some areas with smudges seems covering with a thin layer of gauze. The placement of the lines on the big field is energetic. I heard that Twombly made this work using an unusual technique: he sat on the shoulders of a friend, who shuttled back and forth along the length of the canvas, thus allowing the artist to draw the lines. lines.
I can feel the rhyme of lines with elegant melody seems to tell a story related to the artist his own. I am waiting someone can tell me the truth about the story. It’s a myth of the painting and shapes and forms imply the unique visual language which only the creator can understand and translate it.
2009年5月21日 星期四
Gender, the Body and the Gaze
One of art works in Judy Chicago's installation art The Dinner Party, called "O'Keeffe's dish". The flower looks like female's vergina.
(The Dinner Party is an installation artwork by feminist artis Judy Chicago depicting setting 39 mythical and historical famous women. It was produced from 1974 to 1979.)
The tribe in African nation of Niger
Gender, The body, and the Gaze
Sextuality is an issue related to the biology. Sex refers to the biological distinction between females and males. The two sexes have different primary sex characteristics. Mature females have wider hips, breasts to allow for pregnancy, giving birth and breast-feeding.
Matured males, on the other hand, develop more muscle in the upper body, and deeper voices. Many people understand little about sexuality. For most people, sex has been a culture taboo in Asian society. But sex-Industry(prostitute) is still busy with great sale.
People in western countries, they kiss in public, the Chinese kiss only in private. The Maoris rub noses.
Culture can define the two sexes very differently. In ancient time, women take care of children, cook and clean and men do the hunting, repairing and hunting. Cultures have in defining what is feminine and what is masculine. Some men in African tribes are proud of a display of dress-up, beauty, but most people in our society would think it as feminine.
Women struggled the equality with men. In general, women fare better in rich countries tha in poor countries. In Asian countries, most parents hope their first-born will be a boy rather than a girl. China has continued one child policy to limit China’s population growth. The rule has caused abortion, abandonment for female infants. It resulted the big difference of birth rate between male and female infants.
Talking about gender indentify, we knew some famous artists who are conflicting their sexuality. Marcel Duchamp was a cross-sexuality. Andy Warhol was a openly gay, Shigeyuki…., how about lesbian from the modern art history? Artists are especially emotional that’s why
they can create arts. Now free love is commonly supported by most of people. “ I do what I like, not what the people want me to do”. I feel more and more people talk about the gender issues from media(TV,radio, movie..). I am suspicious about some people are not a real gay but announce they are gay openly. I t has became a general issue, I don’t think we need to purposely mention about it.
During this contextual course, let me think of Georgia O’Keeffe(1887 ~1986 America) and Frida Kahlo(1907~1954 Mexica) . They both are artists who like express sexuality(woman’s body, organ) by metaphoric way into their drawings. Their powerful, passionate painting style imply an extraordinary mythic atmosphere.
I will do further research about their personality ,backgrounds and art –style.
Sextuality is an issue related to the biology. Sex refers to the biological distinction between females and males. The two sexes have different primary sex characteristics. Mature females have wider hips, breasts to allow for pregnancy, giving birth and breast-feeding.
Matured males, on the other hand, develop more muscle in the upper body, and deeper voices. Many people understand little about sexuality. For most people, sex has been a culture taboo in Asian society. But sex-Industry(prostitute) is still busy with great sale.
People in western countries, they kiss in public, the Chinese kiss only in private. The Maoris rub noses.
Culture can define the two sexes very differently. In ancient time, women take care of children, cook and clean and men do the hunting, repairing and hunting. Cultures have in defining what is feminine and what is masculine. Some men in African tribes are proud of a display of dress-up, beauty, but most people in our society would think it as feminine.
Women struggled the equality with men. In general, women fare better in rich countries tha in poor countries. In Asian countries, most parents hope their first-born will be a boy rather than a girl. China has continued one child policy to limit China’s population growth. The rule has caused abortion, abandonment for female infants. It resulted the big difference of birth rate between male and female infants.
Talking about gender indentify, we knew some famous artists who are conflicting their sexuality. Marcel Duchamp was a cross-sexuality. Andy Warhol was a openly gay, Shigeyuki…., how about lesbian from the modern art history? Artists are especially emotional that’s why
they can create arts. Now free love is commonly supported by most of people. “ I do what I like, not what the people want me to do”. I feel more and more people talk about the gender issues from media(TV,radio, movie..). I am suspicious about some people are not a real gay but announce they are gay openly. I t has became a general issue, I don’t think we need to purposely mention about it.
During this contextual course, let me think of Georgia O’Keeffe(1887 ~1986 America) and Frida Kahlo(1907~1954 Mexica) . They both are artists who like express sexuality(woman’s body, organ) by metaphoric way into their drawings. Their powerful, passionate painting style imply an extraordinary mythic atmosphere.
I will do further research about their personality ,backgrounds and art –style.
Ref:
"Sociology " by John J. Macionis
"Moderism about the role of women and gender in modern art"
http://www.artist-magazine.com/ Mar., 2009 no. 406
2009年5月20日 星期三
HOPE
Obey Manifesto
The Obey campaign can be explained as an experiment in Phenomenology. The first aim of Phenomenology is to reawaken a sense of wonder about one's environment. The Obey campaign attempts to stimulate curiosity and bring people to question both the campaign and their relationship with their surroundings. Because people are not used to seeing advertisements or propaganda for which the motive is not obvious, frequent and novel encounters with Obey propaganda provoke thought and possible frustration, nevertheless revitalizing the viewer's perception and attention to detail. The medium is the message.
http://www.thegiant.org/wiki/index.php/Obey_Giant
The "Hope" poster was produced during the US presidential election in 2008, by artist Shepard Fairey in support of the Obama campaign. One day, Shepard found a photo of Obama and illustrated it into a image. Soon he received the approval from the Obana campaign and was asked to produce the text highlighting the ideology of hope. "Hope" and "Progress" both were commonly used throughout Obama campaign . The "Hope" poster soon became used by the campain. And easily spreaded as a symbol of Obama compaign (Democratic Party)
During the presidential election, Obama was himself a symbol of change, and representing hope to Americas. It satisfied the publice who are supporters to Obama. Meanwhile, It achieved the reputation of Obey campaign and the artist's wealth.
The Obey campaign can be explained as an experiment in Phenomenology. The first aim of Phenomenology is to reawaken a sense of wonder about one's environment. The Obey campaign attempts to stimulate curiosity and bring people to question both the campaign and their relationship with their surroundings. Because people are not used to seeing advertisements or propaganda for which the motive is not obvious, frequent and novel encounters with Obey propaganda provoke thought and possible frustration, nevertheless revitalizing the viewer's perception and attention to detail. The medium is the message.
http://www.thegiant.org/wiki/index.php/Obey_Giant
The "Hope" poster was produced during the US presidential election in 2008, by artist Shepard Fairey in support of the Obama campaign. One day, Shepard found a photo of Obama and illustrated it into a image. Soon he received the approval from the Obana campaign and was asked to produce the text highlighting the ideology of hope. "Hope" and "Progress" both were commonly used throughout Obama campaign . The "Hope" poster soon became used by the campain. And easily spreaded as a symbol of Obama compaign (Democratic Party)During the presidential election, Obama was himself a symbol of change, and representing hope to Americas. It satisfied the publice who are supporters to Obama. Meanwhile, It achieved the reputation of Obey campaign and the artist's wealth.
Capitalism, Commodification and Andy Warhol
Capitalism, Commodification, and Pop Art
kind of metal healing for a kid with sickness.
Later he continuously created a series artworks related to super stars, singer (Marilyn Monroe, Liz tayler , Elvis Presley…), and politician like Mao Zedong (a leader of People’s Republic of China). He earned the success of his reputation and wealth. He was called “ The POP of POP”.
During the time of 1960, Billy Apple (1935, Barrie Bates in Auckland, New Zealand) also a member of POP artists.
He collaborated with Andy Warhol and the other POP artists. His art life from POP period and from 1970 he involved into the conceptual art in N.Y. Billy changed his name from Barrie Bates into Billy Apple in 1962. I was impressed by his art work “SOLD”(The giving as an art political statement) in 1981.
The gallery poster showed “Art for Sale”. When people entered the gallery the wall were empty , there were not pictures at all, but sales-stickers. because the art all sold out. Only the sold stickers showed on the wall.
But they didn't look much likeThe biggest sales-ticket cost $3,000 and the prints, which after all were smaller and on paper and weren't unique items, cost only $300.
Is it a joke? A gallery where everyone supposed there are full of art works. Now There is no other content, no pictures except “SOLD” the statement in a gallery. "SOLD" makde it more obvious about the relationship between the gallery, the artist and the clients. “SOLD” reflected the issue about the money of art , the business of art.
Sometimes I feel very confused about the conceptual art and the artist’s controversial art method. Conceptual art can be seen as the artist’s philosophy presentation.
Ref: "Pop Art" by Klaus Honnef
www.wikipedia.org
2009年4月8日 星期三
Gallery visit: Filipe Tohi at Fresh Gallery
Gallery visit: Filipe Tohi at Fresh Gallery/Otara, Manukau city
Color and contrast
A solo exhibition by Sopolemalama Filipe Tohi
20, Mar - 11 Apr., 2009
Last week we missed the visit for Fresh Gallery because it was closed. I visited there again this Tuesday(6, Mar).
After the introduction with details about Filipe Tohi’s art works from gallery staff, Nicole Lim, I finally understood about the artist’s background and the creative ideas about his artworks.
Filipe Tohi was born in Tonga and migrated to New Zealand in 1978, at the age of nineteen. Filipe lives and works in New Plymouth were several of his sculptures can be seen. He became a full time artist / sculptor since 1990. He works with a wide variety of media from wood, stone, steel and Perspex.
Last year, he experimented to work with acrylic painting s and a series of “haukulasi”(flatten lalava in wool)
In Fresh Gallery, there are 11 art works showing. 5 acrylic paintings and 6 Haukulasi. I was fascinated to the geometric patterns with abstract creative art forms. With the combination of square , triangle with contrast colors and the volume with illusion and lines. Those are modern representation of identity of contemporary arts.
What’s the meaning of Haukulasi?
Haukulasi is a practice invented by Tohi which uses traditional Tongan techniques(lalava) to create a new form using wool.
What’s the meaning of “Lalava”?
Lalava is also known as Haukafa. It is a traditional binding methods,made with sannit(coconut fiber).
The lalava is usually done with two colors-black and natural. Lashing is traditionally with the two colors-however , it is traditional binding with either one or two colors of coconut fiber.
Comparison 2 different series of Filipe Tohi’ s art works including acrylic painting and Haukulasi in the gallery. I like Haukulasi rather than his paintings although the vivid modern colors. Haukulasi looks so modern with fine designs and precision of lashing with the media of wool made 3 dimension to bind with particle board. The lalava patterns implied his Polynesian background. The contrast of 2 colors coming with squares and lines represent a balance patterns like the traditional Tongan life philosophy. I stared the squares,one by one, each square is like a small world with the mass of layers and lines. It’s un-touchable to the bottom (source) of each world. The depth and width of ancient culture. He is the only one modern artist with traditional art form of lalava.
“My work transforms the technology of the past into a modern representation of identity and experience. By using the patterns established by lalava. I express a dynosian heritage with metaphors for that speak to the entire community. -written by Filipe Tohi.
www.tantai.org/sopolemalama-fillipe-tohi/
http://www.lalava.net/
According to Nicole Lim’s introduction, there are some metal work projects by Tohi in New Zealndn and overseas. One in Tepapa museum in Wellington, one(coming together ) in Onehunga community center and library 2004, and one in New Plymouth.
Color and contrast
A solo exhibition by Sopolemalama Filipe Tohi
20, Mar - 11 Apr., 2009
Last week we missed the visit for Fresh Gallery because it was closed. I visited there again this Tuesday(6, Mar).
After the introduction with details about Filipe Tohi’s art works from gallery staff, Nicole Lim, I finally understood about the artist’s background and the creative ideas about his artworks.
Filipe Tohi was born in Tonga and migrated to New Zealand in 1978, at the age of nineteen. Filipe lives and works in New Plymouth were several of his sculptures can be seen. He became a full time artist / sculptor since 1990. He works with a wide variety of media from wood, stone, steel and Perspex.
Last year, he experimented to work with acrylic painting s and a series of “haukulasi”(flatten lalava in wool)
In Fresh Gallery, there are 11 art works showing. 5 acrylic paintings and 6 Haukulasi. I was fascinated to the geometric patterns with abstract creative art forms. With the combination of square , triangle with contrast colors and the volume with illusion and lines. Those are modern representation of identity of contemporary arts.
What’s the meaning of Haukulasi?
Haukulasi is a practice invented by Tohi which uses traditional Tongan techniques(lalava) to create a new form using wool.
What’s the meaning of “Lalava”?
Lalava is also known as Haukafa. It is a traditional binding methods,made with sannit(coconut fiber).
The lalava is usually done with two colors-black and natural. Lashing is traditionally with the two colors-however , it is traditional binding with either one or two colors of coconut fiber.
Comparison 2 different series of Filipe Tohi’ s art works including acrylic painting and Haukulasi in the gallery. I like Haukulasi rather than his paintings although the vivid modern colors. Haukulasi looks so modern with fine designs and precision of lashing with the media of wool made 3 dimension to bind with particle board. The lalava patterns implied his Polynesian background. The contrast of 2 colors coming with squares and lines represent a balance patterns like the traditional Tongan life philosophy. I stared the squares,one by one, each square is like a small world with the mass of layers and lines. It’s un-touchable to the bottom (source) of each world. The depth and width of ancient culture. He is the only one modern artist with traditional art form of lalava.
“My work transforms the technology of the past into a modern representation of identity and experience. By using the patterns established by lalava. I express a dynosian heritage with metaphors for that speak to the entire community. -written by Filipe Tohi.
www.tantai.org/sopolemalama-fillipe-tohi/
http://www.lalava.net/
According to Nicole Lim’s introduction, there are some metal work projects by Tohi in New Zealndn and overseas. One in Tepapa museum in Wellington, one(coming together ) in Onehunga community center and library 2004, and one in New Plymouth.
2009年4月2日 星期四
Field trip to Polyfest 2009
Field trip to Polyfest 2009
"Many Cultures, One World" - "Nga tikanga-a-iwi o te ao whanui" - "E tele aganu'u ae tasi lava le lalolagi" -" ‘Oku tau taha pe neongo ‘oku tau kau ki he ngaahi matakali kehekehe" - “ Kehekehe e tau aga Faka-Motu, ka e taha e lalolagi” - "E mànganui te àkono’anga, 'okota'i rai ao"
The 2009 ASB Polyfest held over four days, from 18th to 21st Mar., 2009. In its 34 year, it’s expected over 9000 students and 85,000 people to go to south Auckland for the popular annual event. Poly fest is considered one of the biggest festival of its kind in the world. The event had 59 schools and close to 200 cultural groups involved in the cultural performance and speech making.
There are five performance stages(Maori, Cook Island, Niue, Samoan & Tonga) The Festival is proudly hosted by Wesley College at the Manukau Sportsbowl
by http://www.asbpolyfest.co.nz/
When we reached there, I was so surprised with a lot of people, most are Polynesian people, gathering over there. 1st stage we went is a competition performance(MIT) which some college students were singing and dancing tradition Polynesian performance on the stage. They were singing and dancing for the joy, not only for the competition. I was so touched and exciting for the atmosphere with happiness and respect for the culture. The feeling is just like I went to the temple fair in my country when I was a child. People gathered in front of the temple for the celebration of Buddhist or God birthday. Enjoyed the food and watched the performance (
Taiwanese opera, or traditional puppy play) on the stage which was built in front of temple. The stage standing in front of temple is because that’s someone donated and sacrificed for God. And God shares the show for the public. It became a kind of community art activity.
I thought of the word of “social sculpture” which we just learned from the lesson.
The phase created by Joseph Beuys. For Beuys social sculpture implied that art could alter society.
People gatherning becoming a kind of art activity. People became the art work, and everyone involved became the artist. It’s my great honor to be one of artists participating in the field of the Poly Festival.
"Every human being is an artist, a freedom being, called to participate in transforming and reshaping the conditions, thinking and structures that shape and inform our lives" Joseph Beuys
www.socialsculptureforum.com.au/index.html
2009年4月1日 星期三
Second impressions at Te Tuhi
Second impressions at Te Tuhi-after doing some research on at least one of the artists involved
Last Saturday, I visited Te Tui Center again.
First thing, I checked the keyboard to prove it’s really workable for information searching. I was cheated last time and thought it as a “fake” thing.
After viewing all the “fake” art works,
I was impressed by Glen Hayward’s art works. The items such as cardboard box, fire extinguishers, plastic chair, painting equipments those are all hand made by wood. It’s interesting that he made the everyday stuffs with quite different material as usual. The most real-like art work is the cardboard box. It’s very successful as playing a character of “fake” in this exhibition. I did close inspection to prove it’s really “fake” in fact. The texture of surface is almost the same with paper-made. The folding cover is similar to an usual one from a cardboard box. Finally, I still recognized that those are all out of wood. Hayward’s sculpture are making joke with the viewer. It became a relationship about a game between the artist and the audience. We all involved and participated into the art form. Those art works seem to invite us to try to touch, hold or sit on them. If I sit on the plastic chair, I, myself, might become an art and add into Hayward’s sculpture. Can I say the work is a performace art? It’s a form of conceptual art. Thinking of it as art. Hayward’s pieces remind me that we see and think the world by our preconceptions. When the shape or material changed, we will see it as “fake’ or unacceptable.
It also remind me about Marcel Duchamp’s art work Fountain in 1917.It’s a readymade urinal. Duchamp changed it by 90 degree angle, and called it as the name of “Fountain”.
He had renovated the art form. A conceptual art. Fountain is regarded the most influential artwork of the 20 th century.
Last Saturday, I visited Te Tui Center again.
First thing, I checked the keyboard to prove it’s really workable for information searching. I was cheated last time and thought it as a “fake” thing.
After viewing all the “fake” art works,
I was impressed by Glen Hayward’s art works. The items such as cardboard box, fire extinguishers, plastic chair, painting equipments those are all hand made by wood. It’s interesting that he made the everyday stuffs with quite different material as usual. The most real-like art work is the cardboard box. It’s very successful as playing a character of “fake” in this exhibition. I did close inspection to prove it’s really “fake” in fact. The texture of surface is almost the same with paper-made. The folding cover is similar to an usual one from a cardboard box. Finally, I still recognized that those are all out of wood. Hayward’s sculpture are making joke with the viewer. It became a relationship about a game between the artist and the audience. We all involved and participated into the art form. Those art works seem to invite us to try to touch, hold or sit on them. If I sit on the plastic chair, I, myself, might become an art and add into Hayward’s sculpture. Can I say the work is a performace art? It’s a form of conceptual art. Thinking of it as art. Hayward’s pieces remind me that we see and think the world by our preconceptions. When the shape or material changed, we will see it as “fake’ or unacceptable.
It also remind me about Marcel Duchamp’s art work Fountain in 1917.It’s a readymade urinal. Duchamp changed it by 90 degree angle, and called it as the name of “Fountain”.
He had renovated the art form. A conceptual art. Fountain is regarded the most influential artwork of the 20 th century.
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