Wednesday, June 25, 2014

BOOKS: Yayoi Kusama: I Who Have Arrived in Heaven

Yayoi Kusama's creation is classified art critic to considerable faction, including feminism, minimalism, surrealism, native art, pop art and abstract expressionism and so on. But among the grass on his own description, she is only a "psychotic artists." You can see from her work, she is an attempt to show autobiographical, in-depth psychological, sexual content;

This book shows her works include paintings, soft sculptures, performance art and installation art. Kusama fairly early creative period in the development of its own characteristics, her use of high saturation contrast polka dot plus a mirror, a large surface coated with various objects, such as walls, floors, canvas, home items will appear . Her own dress and often works with high homogeneity and a short jacket and a very strong eye shadow makeup famous. Kusama has described these visual characteristics come from her imagination, she believes these points up the side of the infinite capture net, on behalf of her life.

Yayoi Kusama's extraordinary and influential career spanned painting, acting, presentation room-sized, outdoor sculpture installation art, literature, film, fashion, design and structure of the existing building interventions. Open this book is a series of brightly colored, large-format paintings beautifully crafted square color plates. A part of the recent work of the body, they imply common areas or basic forms of life, and highlights the unique representative and abstract themes Yayoi Kusama fusion.

I like Yayoi Kusama is because Yayoi Kusama's art and her all derivatives are often used a vibrant mix of color, covered with dots infinite, cable and other designs, sizes, colors and density of each other to demonstrate the "infinite" possibilities of this concept. This grass between Yayoi vivid patterns, strobe always put people into a wonderful world. Hallucinations diffusion, so that you feel are in the center of the pattern being lost, there is no beginning and no end.

BOOKS:Female Pop Art

Because Pop Art POP generally regarded as the popular, trendy and it represents a kind of pop culture. An international art movement in the United States under the influence of modern civilization produced, mostly upper class society in the image of accident or dramatic as the performance of the content. It reflects the growing up of the post-war social and cultural values of the younger generation, and strive to express themselves, pursue unconventional psychology.

Although often derided abstract expressionism 'machismo and swagger pop artist, best-known artists are male pop era. Discusses the power generation of women artists of pop art environment, the more obvious critique of consumerism offered their concerns and gender issues than their male counterparts to work. Their male contemporaries color, configuration and direct expression of cartoon imagery reckless consumerism share of the work, in favor of a more vibrant life exhaustive, aggressive enthusiasm, political criticism and sexuality and desire. In feminism has been combined into a coherent action, these women dismantle female imagery exploitation consumerism, critique of capitalism, celebrating their desires, male contemporaries work, cross-media and the mainland.

They seem to have more artistic foresight and adventurous than ever. The roll cast this generation of artists, some of whom get individual fame, while others are not so fresh by art history served light. Throwing down the gauntlet historian, sexy pop art flame electric tracking this chapter neglected colors and provocative.

BOOKS: Thinking like a designer

"Thinking like a designer"

Design has far exceeded one million U.S. dollars interior design or cool new fonts, and now it is about to optimism, behavior and endless possibilities. In this book, the reporter Warren Berger in collaboration with Bruce Mau, and world-renowned designer, gives ten groundbreaking design principles to solve our face business, social and personal challenges. Through hundreds of stories and interviews, Berger demonstrates the design history and future, he took his readers into the international design star studios, such as Dean Kamen, Yves Behar, Brian Collins, Paul. Rochelle, Shi Deming and Bruce Mau. We took a close look at the manner in which designers deal with the problem, which use the unique tools and techniques so that eventually find solutions.

As a reporter interviewed Warren Berger dozens of top designers in Europe and America, will be integrated into their core ideas in this book. Although I'm not sure whether these gurus will have their own unique skills bottom pressure light out, but enough is commendable that this book conveys such an important and pervasive point of view from the numerous cases in which: Design is borderless thinking. Borderless thinking from the beginning to question the basic assumption, that is to ask those "stupid stuff."

This book, read a few pages later, I found that this is the real materials books. Whether it is a busy office workers, better tomorrow policymakers, wife, mother or housewife, a young man full of dreams, as long as you have a passion for life, this book is certainly valuable. This is one will make you stop. "Distracted" book.

BOOKS: < Awakening In Design>

Tanaka a unique experience light naturally very attractive, from a small movie theater for the kids to have a strong interest in Japan's postwar graphic design industry leader, along the way, in his experience, I can see both postwar Japanese society from poverty to affluence, and then the excess packaging of goods, and finally reflect on life, resulting in product design in the pursuit of legitimate demands. Tanaka everything in life seems to be a strong curiosity about the elements of the design have led him humbly and constantly source from everywhere, whether it is the genre of graphic design at home and abroad, or from the musical, draw nourishment traditional Japanese theater, get inspiration.

On the matter of interest, he was always full of passion to do it, such as the university to participate in drama club, just fascinated by the work of American jazz, into the graphic design industry when Yoshino often imitate the original good design. Commendable is to follow after every obsession and he did not become a "second Audigier original good", while others are always able to integrate into their own style style.

In this quest Tanaka spirit and passion, I can always see the shadow of his own personality, book review, "" designed awakening "Book." Although the experience, environment, different times, but in the same character he and I have a strong thirst for knowledge, the desire to show creativity. Although the design and my current professional relationship is not, but see Tanaka with exuberant curiosity and creativity in the design world from fledgling to award prizes to emerge, and then to lead the trend of Japanese graphic design, my heart always unmoved.

BOOKS：Why Design

Why Design

In the book, Hara Design mentioned two ideas, one is to change the world for the purpose of processing and the "club system" and the other is to save material and intelligence for the purpose of "container system." The clothing and household, language and text, including text books, etc. are "container system." His design philosophy, I think the latter is more interested in, that is a "container system" established concept based. He believes that the modern decorative artificial flowers to, which means that economic affluence, national prosperity, which is a demonstration of momentum, and modern society is that everyone is equal society, the state only exists as a system, it is attributed to design simple decoration, mild , minimalist modernism, from the other side it seems that this "subtraction" philosophy, it should also take the "quality" as the most important target to consider, so the simple design, it still has its attraction.

On now this technology-driven society, competing technologies and the creation of more powerful, you can change the angle of the design, such as the culture of everyday life into something to show quiet and delicate cultural forces in Japan, such as clean sheets, clean entrance, then design it in such beauty in the everyday life with Zhao was able to, I think that this is the essence of Hara emphasized designed to carry everything on the "this thing" and "improved" design, making it more and more inherent beauty culture fit the needs of people, the so-called "spiritual" design; Also, the design can not only reflected in our daily lives, it can lead the life, the guide of life, with a design to lead Everything changed values, such as the design has been to "stretch" for the values to look at things, but grew up in new products, seem to leave the fold of those things but has a history of precipitating more attractive, in other words, life , can be designed to influence, is designed to lead, can be designed

I think Hara and Abe different design philosophy, it is a symbol of Japanese and European design features two bar areas, I think this feature should be derived from the formation history and national identity. Historically, the European aristocracy and more, from Scandinavia to Italy, the first rise of the Renaissance, classicism strong, while Europeans enjoy a happy and keen to explore that character, it is both classic and innovative best choice, which among no otherness; while Japan, as Abe said, "In Japan, ranked" low modern furniture, "after the" advanced modern furniture "Overall, Abe and Hara different design concepts, it can be seen as coherent things down, "the" that creative, "down" is to improve the articles is such heritage. materialized in today's society, it seems that the concept of Hara is more suitable for the development of this age, because the contrast and create the new world, to improve and enjoy life now more worthy of our choice.

Tuesday, June 24, 2014

IMAGE CRITIQUE 5

Kusama, 2000 / Image courtesy: Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo / © Yayoi Kusama, Yayoi Kusama Studio Inc.

First I saw a woman sitting in the center of the screen, a slightly older woman had some, short hair, with a light blue lens glasses, red lips, wearing a top hat, placed his hands on his knees, appears to be an Asian. Face looks very serious.

He was wearing a one-piece suit, Lotus edge cuffs, from the sleeve style, the whole style of the clothes fit like a Japanese woman's clothes. Hats, clothes and backgrounds use the same pattern. Yellow and black, two colors with bright yellow so that the whole picture looks amazing, makes it easy idea to painting, and had black mix, does not make the whole picture look too jump. Pattern looks a lot like the octopus hands, like a lot of snakes entrenched together, the pattern of the entire screen using the same texture, and then irregularly arranged. The pattern of clever fusion of clothing and background.

Looked dense pattern and started looking around is not the same pattern, in every corner of the screen, and finally the physical universe. In the process of looking, feeling that they have been forgotten, time is infinite and the absolute sense of space stop spinning, people become small and insignificant.

Yayoi Kusama's creative arts are classified into a considerable number of factions, including feminism, minimalism, surrealism, native art, pop art and abstract expressionism and so on. But among the grass on his own description, she is only a "psychotic artists." You can see from her work, she is an attempt to show autobiographical, in-depth psychological, sexual content; creative techniques used Kusama there are paintings, soft sculptures, performance art and installation art.

Her use of high saturation contrast polka dot plus a mirror, a large surface coated with a variety of objects, such as walls, floors, canvas, home items will appear. Her own dress and often works with high homogeneity and a short jacket and a very strong eye shadow makeup famous. These characteristics come from her visual hallucinations, on behalf of her life.

Monday, June 23, 2014

IMAGE CRITIQUE

Wang Guangyi, Coca-Cola (1990-1993) The Great Criticism Series

These works use the Cultural Revolution posters pictures and symbol of modern Western goods. He felt the original meaning has been completely successful in this series of works in this series would prejudice, but also this time, he began to formally considered political posters and trademarks are two ways of brainwashing. Wang Guangyi's response focused on power and the relationship between individuals, this relationship through a common fear to maintain control, so let itself to form a fortress against unknown dangers, and these dangers could suddenly attack unsuspecting people. Artists advocated by these forms of psychological oppression, an unspoken contract is used to protect against the new virus infection, and in exchange, part of the freedom of the individual powers and between individuals will be abandoned.

Sunday, June 22, 2014

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The Great Wave at Kanagawa (from a Series of Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji), Edo period, ca. 1831–33, Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese)

It describes the threat of Kanagawa waves washed vessels, the picture depicts the three were swept Fannong boat. The ship was then escorted the boat transporting live fish. The boat has eight rowers hold the oars in the bow can see two or more passengers, the screen about 30 people. People stiffness in the boat, and in contrast to the wave motion. Over the cumulonimbus storm should now feel, however, the painting but did not rain. Jingtao waves depicted in Figure lift rolled fishing CAPTURING choppy sea, the wind and waves of the moment. Big Wave curve depicted as curved, so that it became the center of the arc of Mt. Wave scattering of waves scattered, as if falling snow at Mt. Boat and rearmost wave almost equal. I think this is the tsunami waves. But this work is not to shorten the wavelength waves depicted tsunami boatmen who struggle to survive and strive image.

Works with Mount Fuji in the background. Mount Fuji is painted on the lower center of the screen in the background. For Japan, Mount Fuji is a sacred symbol of the country, but also a symbol of beauty. The original painting majestic Mount Fuji is very small, and the prospect of waves in stark contrast. Dark and seems to be lit, snow-covered hill is near the horizon, now is the expression of the early morning, while the sun is rising from the side of the viewer. Vision is Mt. This work is Hokusai's most famous work, it is one of the world's most famous works of Japanese art.

Edo is a conservative military government period of relative peace. In order to encourage stability, the influence of Confucian moral revival of interest, the Tokugawa regime society is divided into four separate classes: samurai, farmers, artisans, and - at the bottom of the heap merchants. Culture in the Edo period applied they provide a huge impact to provide a very popular ukiyo-e paintings and engravings of the subject matter. This rather pessimistic view in the Edo era was overthrown. Characters meaning "floating" substituted homonym, meaning "temporary", expressed the attitude of enjoyment of life. This is the praise of life in the "floating world" of hedonistic culture in 1858, the major printmaker overthrow the Tokugawa shogunate disappeared brutal social and political unrest in 1867. Edo society, ukiyo-e art mainstay, has undergone drastic changes as the country was drawn into a movement, along the West line of modernization. Like many elements of Japanese culture, Ukiyo-e is the herald of a new era maelstrom swept away.

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Xiaogang ZHANG 張曉剛, Bloodline — Big Family No. 12, 1997, oil on canvas, 190cm x 260cm.

The painting depicts a III extended family, from grandfather to the children, but there is no expression of character, both adults and children sit quietly. In fact, I can understand the meaning of the expression, in my grandfather's house I have ever seen such pictures, black and white photographs, everyone blankly sitting together, that's my grandfather is old China, people's clothes monotonous black and white, no fashion design and color. Photo Gallery also just developed in old China, and there is no method for a variety of pictures, if flips Chinese 50s or 60s of old photographs, most of them are of this type.

In my opinion, Zhang Xiaogang these old photographs in black and white for the background work, was able to become a kind of visual symbol of Chinese contemporary art, is that he excavated the memories of our survival, to the Chinese people have lost cultural image provided Retrospection language of the specimen.

His works may fit some Westerners imagine socialist China is his work look. But in fact misread, that is not today's Chinese people, but the contemporary Chinese people have put too much history to change at least 50 years of tradition, almost a destructive erase memories. But in Zhang's works, we can still feel the memory line, can wake up a lot of past memories. The use of modern and contemporary Chinese style pop art portrait expression profiling revolutionary era, to convey the sense of having a collective mental age of memories and emotions. This kind of social, collective and family, kinship typical presentation and simulation is a re-interpretation, from art, emotion and departure angles of life, and thus has a strong contemporary significance.

Personally, I still like him these works, I think these works appeared, and continued his consistent questioning of life forms, which implies his history, time, and other concepts of life and death more mature awareness. I saw that mature after Zhang lonely heart, thus also seems to understand why he would salvage old photos that history, and handled hazy reasons.

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The Nut Gatherers (1882) (oil on canvas), Bouguereau, William-Adolphe

Screen shows two little girls, on the left there is the golden girl with long hair, red headband looks cute, she was wearing a gray-brown dress and pure white long-sleeved shirt, one arm supported on the grass, and the other A hand gently resting on the other arm, the body lie down on the grass looks very relaxed. But the eyes look to another girl, seemed to listen carefully friend tells a secret.

Girl on the right has black hair, not long, just to the shoulder. She used a hair band hair combed back. She was wearing a light blue skirt and brown vest and a white short-sleeved shirt. Looks very clean and quiet. Black haired girl tightly against his head, did not see the golden-haired girl. Hands grip tightly together, bend knees sitting on the grass, I can see the girl tense mood, I seem to be able to hear her heart beating because he was nervous.

Background behind a grove seems to be a quiet afternoon, the girls finished the work, walked leisurely Meet the woods, they are barefoot. In this quiet time seems best suited to chat with friends, I want to chat with each other in their time, the black-haired girl inadvertently tell their own little secret, and thus two people to sit down quietly, quietly waiting blond girl a friend with his talk, black-haired girl tense, carefully, she seems to have some of the shy, but also eager to share their feelings with friends. Tell their own story seems to be about an adolescent story about a boy.

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GEOPOLITICUS CHILD WATCHING THE BIRTH OF THE NEW MAN

Date: 1943

Material Used: Oil on canvas

Size: 18 x 20 1/2 inches

This painting is the author SALVADOR DALI, the background is gloomy weather, oppressive atmosphere, seems to presage the arrival of a storm. I felt the background looked like a desert, desolate. From the top of the screen to start looking first to see a white cloth, I think this piece of cloth that looks like an umbrella. This cloth does not cover the things above, but floating in the air, in the middle of cloth seems to be lifted from above. Here there is a very large egg, ready to start cracking up. There is a man struggling, you can clearly see a human, I can see him hold up the bones and muscles due to the hard and tight. Around the egg with yellow liquid, red liquid flowing from cracks in the eggs, I guess this is the human egg and struggling out of the blood. The following are also covered with a piece of egg white cloth, blood flow to the cloth top, but did not render the mark, I think this description is still fresh blood.

On the right side of eggs a woman standing there. She looks very thin, dark skin, women did not wear clothes, you can clearly see her ribs. Her fingers to the egg, looked down at his feet, as if what others said. Then following a woman to have a child that looks quite young, height only to the woman's knee, the child tightly holding a woman's legs, cowardly hiding, I can see his fear, but because of curiosity and look to the eggs. I think he did not understand what the woman told him that he could not fully understand what happened eggs there, he can quietly watching, not a little voice, which is probably the first time he saw this scenes.

After breaking with Surrealism, Dali reaction, abstract modern art, steering Renaissance inspiration. Looking at the past, he coincide renewed interest in the Catholic Church, and transferred from his personal image to a more general symbol of science and religion. When working in this painting, Dali depicts protection, cupola, placenta, Catholic, eggs, ground distortion.

Geopoliticus children reflect the importance of the new discovery, the man emerges from the egg to break out of the country, "new", indicating a global change. The importance of increasing the representative of the third world, indicating that the diminishing importance of the international force. Cloth draped above and below the egg represents "placenta" as Dali shows a drop of blood, only new country through much pain and suffering born. Androgynous figure standing in the foreground of old and new point man, recognizing the birth of this global change. The timid child with its long shadow - on "Geopoliticus children" in the title - represents the new era.

Monday, June 2, 2014

Seminars

An illustration is a visualization or a depiction made by an artist, such as a drawing, sketch,painting,photograph or other kind of image. The idea of text and story. Usually we see on newspapers,magazines,various publications and children books, insertion of the pictures between the texts. Text portion can be more vivid, more fun active in the reader’s mind. So each person has their own opinion and interpretation about illustrations

Since the 18^th century Buddhism was introduced into China. The earliest illustration form of prints with the Buddhism cultures introduction to China. Promote in the books by graphic, illustration is widely used in various fields of society. Illustration also can give us unlimited imagination. The emergence of colour overprint. Illustrations expand the scope of application to medicine books and other household encyclopedia books.

Ukiyo-ey is a form of folk art, paintings that depict the world. Then it worshiped by many Western artists Ukiyo-ey techniques and style can be in different forms in the various arts continue to be passed along. Modern Japanese anime has had huge commercial market and operations teams. The animation is an important branch illustration industry.

This is a particular example about illustration in Asian. About some political reasons in North Korea, various types of art can not at liberty to spread and creation. Most of the illustrations about politics or other is to encourage the people. So it has a unique style of illustration in North Korea. It could say illustration exploited by government.

Sunday, June 1, 2014

150-200 word critique

A sculpture, the material used to hate yellow Lego lock spliced into a person's upper body. Hands tear the body, scattered bricks look like organs due to tear out from the body. I felt he was struggling, and I seem to feel his pain. I think his performance is the human heart in the world, showing the heart of the anxiety and pain A desperately want to get rid of the feeling.

Location of this work is the creation of the city's staircase on the road, usually looks like an ordinary staircase, the authors initiated by color decorating and finishing, different color and geometry stitching, so simple stairs look more three-dimensional vitality. Creator of this work is an art group, not individual behavior. Collective brainstorming to create unlimited possibilities.

This artist's painting method uses its own unique creation lines, all objects, people, and animals appear in his works are used in the line. In this piece of work is a deer, you can clearly see the deer's body painting method is a combination of lines, then most of this artist's works draw on the wall, but not anywhere in the wall, you can many see the top of the antlers of the vine or plant a tree Man behind the wall to expose the branches, so the artists are painting the place to find such a suitable wall with plants together. According to movements of plants and then draw his work, which is a fusion of painting the surrounding environment, which is an expression of street art. I really like this series of works, I can learn to find creative inspiration in the surroundings of life, then the fusion of art and life

This work shows that many groups entrenched in a show hall trees, trees and tree trunk texture trend is clear, looks like a real tree growing out from the floor, showing a tenacious vitality. But in fact this is the artist out of the trees, it takes a lot of time, first start by an internal skeleton and then covered with a wood surface, texture look like trees, where the entire work is ingenious, inside these trees are can walk, there is a space. Such work looks very shocked that a great artist is willing to spend a lot of time and effort to create such a work of art.