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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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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
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