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'Uh, gee, great.' -Andy Warhol 'Don't take life too seriously, you'll never get out of it alive.'
-Bugs Bunny
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Thursday, September 10, 2009
12:33 AM
Thursday, September 3, 2009
"Valuable" generally means something of great value, and i think it highly depends on one's opinion. For me art that is valuable has to have a few qualities:
1. Meaningful
2. Costly (emotional,financial)
3. Aesthetically beautiful
4. Only one (unique)
i use these factors to determine whether a piece of art is valuable or not.
1. an artwork that is meaningful simply means that the artist went through a lot of thought processes. he also has to think about his intentions. an artist who can convey his thoughts through the use of symbols alone is a genius. i find artworks that are hard to understand without the need to do research very attractive. maybe because the fact that not many people can understand it makes it more mysterious and in a way more valuable.
2. what i mean by costly is that the artist gave up a lot just to have that painting done. many artists like to exhaust themselves this way i notice. some artists would give up their family to become an accomplished artist. i think these people who sacrifice themselves for art are stupid but at the same time respectable. some artists like Pollock who own such "rollercoaster" lives sacrifices his relationship with people to be at the top. his artworks are in return so filled with emotion and movement. Long after his death many still think of his work as valuable.
3. Of course an artwork has to be aesthetically beautiful! this is highly subjective though. an artwork that makes you cringe or one that you will not look twice at is an artwork that is not worth keeping. mankind continues to search for beauty in many ways, and we cannot deny this. beauty in art should not reach a level of perfection however. an artwork that is pleasing and at the same time has an element of surprise is very valuable.
4. although Warhol's works are considered valuable to many, it is not to me, especially those works that have undergone mass production. making an artwork homogeneous just erodes the meaning that it holds! but if THAT is the intention of the artist its fine. an artwork that is a one and only is almost like a valuable treasure to me as it cnnot be found anywhere else.
4:01 AM
4:01 AM
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
"Our life together is so precious together." -- from (Just Like) Starting Over, by John Lennon
On March 20, 1969, John Lennon and Yoko Ono wed in Gibraltar. The following week, media manipulators used their celebrity for good, hosting a honeymoon "bed-in" for peace in room 902, the presidential suite of the Amsterdam Hilton. The press assumed that the famous nudists would make love for their cameras. Instead, the pajama-clad newlyweds spoke out about world peace. It was the honeymoon as performance art, interlaced with a protest against the Vietnam War.
Lennon's "The Ballad of John and Yoko" chronicles the week in song: "Drove from Paris to the Amsterdam Hilton / Talking in our bed for a week / The news people said / 'Hey, what you doin' in bed?'/ I said, 'We're only tryin' to get us some peace!'"
For a week, John and Yoko give interviews, ignoring the mockery and hostility to spread their words of peace to a global audience.
Yes, i think this is art; Performance art.
Performance art involves time,space, the performer's body, and a relatinship between the performer and the audience. it can happen at any time and wherever.
More importantly, performance art has to get across to viewers a message. in this case, it is a message of peace for the world.
On june 1st 1969, the couple and a huge group of friends recorded "Give Peace a Chance." The single is credited to "The Plastic Ono Band." Five weeks later, on July 7, the 45 was released in the United States. "Give Peace a Chance" reached no. 14 on Billboard's chart -- and inspired an entire generation to chant a song of peace along with John and Yoko.
8:28 PM
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
8:49 PM
 On Egon Schiele's oil painting "Man with a Twisted Body" (i really like his works) - Inspired and influenced by Gustav Klimt
- The twisted body shapes and the expressive line that characterize Schiele's paintings and drawings mark the artist as an early exponent of Expressionism
- A study of his upper body
- The gaze is not just complicit but challenging. It dares the viewer to accept the posed and exposed subject
- Schiele’s intention is to make people appreciate blatant eroticism and honesty of female bodies
- Schiele explored space with the use of a single basic colour in many tones
- use of lighter tones to show a bigger area
- less positive apace
- clear black outlines that emphasise on the contours of the body
- twisted body
- this work is different in its representation of space (also comparing to Klimt) as Schiele used strokes of black lines (fragmentation) across his subject matter which represents movement. This adds detail to the positive space
- this self portrait highlighted the artist’s interest in the human body
- people think of his works as outstanding and disturbing
- he understood that just a body part can stand for a whole (his hands)
 On Maurizo Savini's bubblegum sculpture, "The Hanging Man"
- made out of pink bubblegum
- Bubblegum is warmed and manipulated with a knife like clay
- a sculpture of a hanging man
- to the artist, bubblegum is an amazingly versatile material compared to those used by the traditional arts such as painting
- the artist worked around the theme of ‘impossibility’ and came up with the idea of a man defying the law of gravity
- to represent structure, the artist experimented with the form of the human body (the bent torso)
The artist experimented with space by hanging his life size sculpture, suspended in the air
- the sculpture is only supported at the side of its body
- the bent torso and suspended body gives an illusion that the bubblegum man is a complex structure amidst a large area of unoccupied space
- this sculpture is especially unique in it’s representation of structure because most human sculptures are portrayed either in an abstract manner or in a normal position (reclining, sitting)
- it is also very detailed in its line work
- this sculpture has stood out and made a strong impression to people about the use of uncommon materials to create artworks.
- most people are accustomed to materials such as bronze and gold
- lastly this sculpture represents the unending quest of mankind, which is to achieve what is deemed to be impossible
8:36 PM
 1) Studium: "meanings that are nameable," "given cultural meanings that we understand at once" (huh. what?)
2) Punctum: "a personal memory based not on the public archive but a private repertoire," "stings the viewer...some detail (some accident in the photograph)" "occurs when there is a match between a signifier in the scene (in the photograph), and a scene in the memory" (i think i can understand this one better!)
The studium of this photo.
Well lets see, the white label on the right apears to be higher than the one on the left, even though of course in actuality it is the same height. Also,the bottom part of the vertical rectangular wallpaper seems to be wider than the upper half. The walls are surrounding the wallpaper's sides, rather than there is a wall underneath the wallpaper.
Hmm. I hope i got it right.
The punctum of this photo.
The vertically positioned wallpaper strongly reminds me of the oh so many cloth shops that dominate arab street (the area near Sultan mosque). You enter these shops and you'll be greeted with rolls and rolls of 1m cloths of various designs, colours and materials. You just have to point to one that grabs your attention and they'll role it out for you. Tadaaa!
8:14 PM
Sunday, August 16, 2009
Your civilisation is your disease, my barbarism is my restoration to health.
I am a savage. -Gauguin
7:37 AM
Monday, August 10, 2009
1) what is this work made of?
At first glance it looks like it is made of glass. Then my gaze fell to the black 'liquid' and i wonder if it is possible for it to be glass? the way this sculpture looks like thick strong black bubbles bonding/merging together reminds me of the effect of glass blowing. each seperate 'bubble' must have been bonded together when it was still in molten state. then i think it was let to cool, resulting in partially joined black spheres.
Now it just looks like a bunch of grenades.
2) what i think the title is
Cranberries
3) what i think the artist wants to convey
Strength through unity
simplicity
the amalgamation of firms
newfound relationships
4) what i felt upon seeing this work
curious, amazed, stumped, determined, and a little bored after a long while
5) why i think it is suitable for public display
Because this sculpture is aesthetically pleasing to look at. its smooth and flawless surface easily complements its bare environment. One who walks past can easily dismiss it as just another sculpture, but some can stop and think about its abstract representation and wonder about the meaning behind it.
7:23 AM
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
 my love for making envelopes =)
2:52 AM
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my love for making envelopes =)
