Three Questions

Ocular Show

1.What do you mean by sense the "aura"? I can tell "aura" means something really attract you, so what attract you most?

2.I am really interesting in the comment "then again most of the internet is used for pornography so that kinda reveals how savage we all really are." 



Yanjia Zhang

1. What kind of relations you feel that six Geometric Figures have? Do you think that uncolored space have any meanings from your personal view?

2. How do you define the notion of "Art"? Do you think is subjective, or it is obejective?

3. Which art works of David do you like the most?


Jiajun Liu

1. What kind of relationship do you found between the real world and Valla's work?

2. I think that can also

David Weinrib Memorial Exhibition

  What I found interesting in Mr.David Weinrib's pieces is that the shape and pattern in his pieces is kind of similar. It seems like I could recognized his work because there's a special "tone" in his work that I could tell. It seems like most of his work's color is warm and makes me feel peaceful, the surface of his pieces seems really smooth, and gives me a shinning feelings. Though some of the pieces' shape seems really simple and there's not really lots of details on it, but the pieces still gives me a feeling that he made every simple details really carefully.

About Clement Valla

  According to Clement Valla's exhibition, I could see the combination of the technology and nature together. Here's some pieces that I am interested with:

  1. Surface Proxy

 

  What I found this pieces is really interesting is because after knowing the way he create this art pieces. Clement Valla combine three elements together: "Photography, sculpture and software". Through his piece Surface Proxy, I think the way I appreciate an artwork changed- I am not only watching a simple 2D photograph, I am watching a 3D sculpture that I could watch through different angles. I think is really amazing that he could use 3D technology to reproduce lots of photos as a 3D massive one. The ideas of take each pieces through different place and reproduce them into one is outstanding.

  2.Postcard from Google Earth

  I think the most interesting part of this photo is these road is really different than what we feel when we are having road trip. We we on the road, we kind of feel that the road is flat if we close our eyes. However through the piece, we could see the distort of the road that gives me a incredible feeling.

About Works of Art and More Real Things

  I am a little bit confuse about the the lecture I read. However through this lecture I could feel something called "Helpless" in it. When we see the same painting, we have different understanding. Though it is very nice to get different inspirations from an artist painting, however it doesn't means we have to distort the painter's ideas and what is he real want to express.

"Giorgione's primed canvas, supposing the paint to have been laid on by him: a fence painted by J is only a painted fence. "
"I allow that J has much the same right, whereupon he declares the red expanse a work of art, carrying it triumphantly across the boundary as it he had rescued something rare."

  These words makes me think that sometimes what an artist want to express is only the thing itself, is not always what we think about. They may have there own thoughts, they even just wanna create a pointless and simple art work sometimes. The real meaning of an art piece is really hard to express because people intend to reflect their own feelings to an art work they saw. There understanding and value reflect their personality, background and characters.

  So do we really "read" an artwork?
  Or we are just read ourselves, or try to read an artist background through his artwork?

Artist Statement

  While I walking on the street, different kinds of windows attract my attention. Through each window, different stories happens. Mysterious makes people curious, I always wonder what happen in each window. I can barely see some furnishings through different windows, however “less is more”; these mystic windows gave me inspirations to create this project.

  So I shoot some windows that I am interested with and made collage on it. I create different scenes according to my imagination and the furnishings in window. It is really amazing that there are lots of others doing different things around you, however you can’t see them. I want to show the amazing feelings of what I feel between location and time.

Short post

I am going to take pictures of window this week. And I plan instead of shooting lots of windows to draw different scene, I may just shoot one window and play with it with different painting style.

2 questions for Michael

1. I am amaze by the work of paper sculptures series. The question I wanna ask is do you have a specific idea on the whole masterpieces you wanna do before you do it, or you just thinking about and doing it during the progress. Since transform the flat papers to 3D is really really hard.

2. What do you wanna express in your pieces "Magnolia"? What gave you the ideas to made this?

Project 1- Story and Windows

  The thesis that I chose for my project is "time and location". I wanna shot different styles of windows in NY (Both through outside or inside is fine). And according to the background surrounding and the view, I will draw a character and stories on the photos.

  As an example, I found some material of window and draw some very rough draft to show my ideas. The picture source is from here: 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window