Reflection of Museum of Contemporary Art

Reflection of Museum of Contemporary Art
In the Museum of Contemporary Art, there is a big problem that I can’t know how to appreciate it. In order to finish the class work, I pretended to like it and noted something. Someone told to me that Contemporary Art is the design that no one has done it and thought of it, so I saw that there are some walls which artist used on the exhibition. I thought whether that artist was too narcissistic or not.

the dome of roof

this is the dome of Chicago culture center.

Traditional Chinese Opera

This is a costume play of the traditional Chinese Opera which has the garish makeup.

famous photoes

These are the work of famous photographer named Robert Mapplethorpe who is a the most controversies photographer. I like these very much, which can touch my heart strongly.

chinese painting

The Portrait of a Lady is a tradition ancient Chinese painting, which is made with fine, delicate strokes and needs meticulous painting drawing. It shaped special model, but it has many styles.

the beautiful place

This photo is an inset in my favorite blog of Chinese net writer. She took these pictures in the Tibet, and she wrote a series of prose about her travel experience and beautiful legend in Tibet. I like her words very much, which it can touch my heart and bring me to the beautiful place. I’m her fun.

the shadow

It is the street lamppost in the night, isn't it?

the theme of Contemporary Art

The one of the themes in Contemporary Art is “Play”.

Jessica Stockholder plays plastic to make sculptures with brightly color to create improvise exuberant installation. She said “I’m interested in how a thinking process can meander in unpredictable ways.” “and like child’s play”. Oliver Herring released from his past meditative work of knitting colorless sculptures with the tape. He said “I usually wait for a moment that bring out some kind of vulnerability” with inspiration to create his sculpture.

Arturo Herrera. Combines cartoon elements with abstract shapes to explore the interplay of childhood memories and adult desires. He employs childish color, pattern and movement to elicit delight of play.

Public Art

Public Art
At the end of March, Sunny days were driving up the temperature in this spring break in Chicago. My sister and I traveled art loop in downtown according to the audio tour. Before this trip, I wanted to download Audio Tour, but I failed to do it, so I drew a sketch of route map on the paper. We were happy, full of fun, and with confidently expecting to get on the number 62 bus. Our first the stop is Flamingo sculpture in the Federal Plaza which is composed of steel, and is red in color to offset it from the black and steel surroundings of nearby office buildings. It lent soft color to the city. We went up to the north. We met Four Seasons. This art wall is not better than it’s in the picture, but it may give a leisure place to tourists who were tired for sightseeing. Up to the one block, we saw the tow sculptures on either side of the street. There are Miros Chicago which originally called The Sun, The Moon and One star and Picassos Chicago which has become a well known landmark and a symbol of the city. These two sculptures are inspired or symbolized by women.
To the west there is the Monument with the Standing Beast which is diagonal across the street from Daley Center. Because of street busy, I waited for a long time to take a picture of it from the opposite street. Up to north, after we visited The Vietnam Memorial near the Chicago river, we went to find Loop Tattoo which is the most expected one to me. However we went here and there and almost circled three times between The Vietnam Memorial and We Will. Eventually, we failed to find it, although there are some friendly people who wanted to help us. We kept our disappointment and went to the east. As soon as we got to the Michigan Avenue, we forgot our unhappy and were attracted by its bright beauty. We came to the most beautiful place in the Chicago where is on the shores of Michigan Lake. There are The Peristyle, Jay Prilzker Pavilion, and Cloud Gate. The day was nice day. Many people gathered around Cloud Gate. Someone posed to take pictures, and someone enjoyed themselves from that mirror, especially for the girls who playful jumped or leaped in front of big mirror. I was infected with this joy and wanted to take picture like them. To my frustrated again, my battery was over used. I couldn’t take any picture for this beautiful scene. Down to the south, we visited Crown Fountain, The Bowman and The Spearman, The Spirit of Music and the Chicago Groundcover, and Logan Memorial Statue. And then at this time we ended this art loop. I like this art trip which is reasonable designed. This tour route is my great thrill. I will recommend it to my friends who will praise me on familiar with Chicago and enjoy it very much.

House of Blues Chicago

In Wednesday’s fieldtrip we visited the House of Blues which is located in the historic Marina City near the Chicago Rive. It is a very modern building with a semicircular arch of roof which is a complement to the buildings around it. However when we entered in, we was shocked by its out of stereotypical feeling. Mysterious Eastern Buddhism aroma was coming to us. Exquisite Tibet and Nepal style of decoration inside let me not believe that I was not in Chicago. It not only offers the food and beverage, entertainment, but also is an art gallery. There are numerous paintings and sculptures hanging and putting in every wall, approach, and corner. It was worth visiting the house of Blues which mixed the East mystically with the western modern style.

Don Eddy. New Shoes for H

Don Eddy. New Shoes for H
This painting was drawing in the 1973- 1974 by Don Eddy whose obstreperous spirit let him look beyond abstraction and developed his own innovative responses to early modernism. He was a typical artist of Photorealism. He used photograph as the subject of itself painting instead of photograph as the sketch of the primary way of gathering visual information. In this painting, Don Eddy created fascinated result by window’s transparent and reflective with the double layer of information that the windows offered. His painting looks like picture, but its hallucinatory is over the picture. I am attracted by this fascinating design, creative mind and striving to make inventions. His successful experience led to understanding of the traditions as a formal discipline and personal expression as a powerful form. It can open the door to innovation.

PAN, YULIANG

The story began in the south China in the 1910s. A girl was sold to the brothel by her uncle, because her parents all died of the disease. This girl was Yuliang who was thirteen years old at that time. At her seventeen years old, she was brought back by Mr. Pan, and she became Mr. Pan’s concubine late. For being deeply grateful to Mr. Pan, she changed her name to Pan, Yuliang. She moved to Shanghai follow her husband. In Shanghai she met her husband’s friend who was a artist. She was fond of painting by his influence, and she showed her talent for painting soon. In 1918, she was enrolled in Shanghai Fine Arts School to learn western painting. After graduating from the school, she went to France, and entered in Paris National Fine Arts School. In 1928, she returned home after finishing her studies, and she was appointed to the professorship of western painting in Shanghai Fine Arts School. However, because of her history, she was had a low opinion by most people, and her painting exhibition aroused a public outcry. Her gallery was smashed by someone. She couldn’t bear this insult. She was forced to leave her husband and went to Paris again.
In Pairs, She was immersed and devoted to her favorite painting. With dense artistic culture atmosphere there, she created many paintings with different themes. She died in France at age of 83.
Her style of painting was a good combination of Chinese and Western elements and lines and color elements.

themes of art

Dragon original was a totem culture of primitive man. It is illusory form of life which is not found in nature living beings. Due to fearing of unknown, ancestor employed the imagination to create powerful creature which could help people to control the nature. Thus dragon was added various characters of biotic community by people, such as: body of snake, legs of beast, head of horse, scales of fish, and claw of eagle, and various virtues and excellent characters were centered on it: It was heroic and skilful in the battle; it was full of bright ideas; it was supposedly capable of producing rain. It possessed endless power, so it was regarded as symbol of the monarch. The image of dragon is everywhere in China. There were imperial robes with embroidered dragon and jades carved with dragon design. Because of the fanciful thought or idea, “dragon” symbolizes the Chinese nation. This totem culture in the art is also called the one of the themes of art--- the sacred realm.

Maya Lin

Reflection about Art Institute Visit

Reflection about Art Institute Visit
This Wednesday we visited Art Institute as a class of Art Appreciation. Last year I visited it with my husband after we just came here from China. We stayed in it nearly a whole day. However, it was a new experience for me to visit it again as a student of Art Appreciation at this Wednesday. Gitte divided us into many groups. Two persons joined together as a group. My partner is Nadja.

When we came to the 201, the central piece of the gallery which it attracted our eyes is Gustave Caillebotte’s Paris Street; Rain Day. At that time, Gustave Caillebotte was a very young impressionism artist. He was good at painting leisurely side of modern life. It was a typical impressionism relaxed subject. The elegant composure of the figures appear as urban icons in the painting.
In 391 I chose French Andre’ Derain’s Forest at Martigues. This painting is a kind of childish large brush but is full of dynamics.

In 393 I admired Gabriele Munter’ Still Life with Queen. Her beautiful color attracted me. This painting expressed the status of her life and the avant-garde at that time.

In 396 I was attracted by France Pierre Bonnard’s The Seine at Vernonnet. The color of this landscape is soft and large brushsteak
The last Nadja and I made a representation about France Balthus’ Girl with Cat. I knew that the most of his work consist of painting of people in different angles. This position is very difficult to paint. The painting which I posed here is not the same painting which it was in the Art Institute. This painting looks like a reworking base on and is more ingenious than that one which it is in the Art Institute. The girl is a profile in this painting, whereas face to visits in that one. Nadia made a good speech about this painting’s shape, light and color. At last, we made a little poem to end our representation.
Girl
Beautiful quite
Relaxed dreamy peaceful
In the other hand
Deeply hide dark
Foxy greedy
Cat

expect the unexpected---- Hollis Sigler

"expected the nexpected” seems like hopeless willing, or like overwhelming desire to alive. These feelings which touched me strongly while visiting in the hall are all in the Hollis Sigler’s painting. Her bright color expressed her endless desire of life, and brave or pain in her battle against disease. Because her frames complement its painting perfectly, I was always intrigued while comparing painting with its frames. There are many frames which recorded her Breast Cancer Journal: “inside she was bleeding”, “change doesn’t come easy for her”, “some days you feel so alive”, ‘in spite of all, she rises in the morning with joy”, “some say leaving this life is like casting off old clothes”, and “she always had hope”. I was so moved while reading these frames, needless to say watching these painting; therefore, someone said that “she was a master at combing image and text in her work”, and she can “brilliantly convey difficult emotional content in a way that viewer can relate to and understand”.

It is a sad tale in the “Walking with the Ghosts of My Grandmother”. Her grandmother died of breast cancer and her mother also died of breast caner, so she said “an individual doesn’t get cancer, a family does”. She expressed the hopeless in the painting. Heavy cloudy sky, strewed the clothes and three dressing tables on the grave indicated that her grandmother will bring her to the place to where she will have gone by the future so. Her childlike painting way in her images shows the meaning of her another painting’s frame, “the beginning of the end”. She told us family story with her special narrative painting.

Is her style of painting near the van Gogh?

This is her charcoal painting. The lines are fine and more childlik

If I am living with art, I will be very happy every day.