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.