future event review lookup

 When:
  Between Friday 03 December and Saturday 18 December from 00.00AM to 00.00AM

Opening Night: 6:30pm Friday 3 December
Exhibition will run until 18 December
Monday – Friday 9:00am – 6:00pm, Saturday 11:00am – 4:00pm

Where:
Pine Street Creative Arts Centre, 64 Pine Street Chippendale 2008 Venue details
Cost: Free
Website:
http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/pinestreet/




More Info:
Pine Street Creative Arts Centre
Jane Hooper 9245 1503
jhooper@cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au

Dadaism, an art movement

"For us, art is not an end in itself ... but it is an opportunity for the true perception and criticism of the times we live in.", Hugo Ball (February 22, 1886 – September 14, 1927)

Hannah Höch, Cut with the Dada Kitchen
Knife through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural
Epoch in Germany, 1919, collage of pasted papers, 90x144 cm,
Staatliche Museum, Berlin.

"Dada or Dadaism is a cultural movement that began in Zürich, Switzerland, during World War I and peaked from 1916 to 1922. The movement primarily involved visual arts, literature—poetry, art manifestoes, art theory—theatre, and graphic design, and concentrated its anti-war politics through a rejection of the prevailing standards in art through anti-art  cultural works. Its purpose was to ridicule what its participants considered to be the meaninglessness of the modern world. In addition to being anti-war, dada was also anti-bourgeois and anarchistic in nature." taken from www.wikipedia.org

so basically Dadaism, is an art movement that really into making fun of the modern world, by branding it with "meaningless" tag. Dadaism also an anti-war, anti-bourgeois (social group of people who is considered to be a high class/wealthy and act like it), and anarchistic in nature. this is art movement come during the World War 1, which given us the very basic idea why this art movement were invented back then. The movement was a protest against the bourgeois nationalist and colonialist interests, which many Dadaists believed were the root cause of the war, and against the cultural and intellectual conformity that corresponded to the war.

According to its people who's in Dadaism, Dada was not art, it was "anti-art". Everything for which art stood, Dada is the opposite. Where art was concerned with traditional aesthetics, Dada ignored aesthetics. If art was to appeal to sensibilities, Dada was intended to offend. Through their rejection of traditional culture and aesthetics, the Dadaists hoped to destroy traditional culture and aesthetics.

Hugo Ball, Tristan Tzara, Richard Huelsenbeck, Jean Arp, Marcel Janco, Sophie Täuber, Hans Richter, Emmy Hennings, along with others, discussed art and put on performances in the Cabaret Voltaire In 1916,  Zurich, expressing their disgust with war and the things that inspired it. Some people says that this is the beginning of Dadaism

Cubism pics

original picture

cubism version

here's my take on Cubism, well I just copy the style and implement it in my picture, nuff said.

Cubism, an art movement

Cubism was a 20th century avant-garde art movement, started by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, which  revolutionized European painting and sculpture, and inspired related movements in many different forms of art such as music and literature.

Les Demoiselles d'Avignon 1907
Pablo Picasso

 During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the European cultural elite were discovering African, Micronesian and Native American art for the first time. Artists such as Paul Gauguin, Henri Matisse, and Pablo Picasso  were intrigued and inspired by the simplicity of styles of those foreign cultures. Around 1906, Picasso met Matisse through Gertrude Stein, at a time when both artists had recently acquired an interest in primitivism, Iberian sculpture, African art and African tribal masks.

They became friendly rivals and competed with each other throughout their careers, perhaps leading to Picasso entering a new period in his work by 1907, marked by the influence of Greek, Iberian and African art. Picasso's paintings of 1907 have been characterized as Protocubism, as notably seen in Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, the antecedent of Cubism.

There are 2 branches of cubism, The first branch of cubism, Analytic Cubism, was both radical and influential as a short but highly significant art movement between 1907 and 1911 in France. In its second phase, Synthetic Cubism, the movement spread and remained vital until around 1919, when the Surrealist movement gained popularity.

Clarinet and Bottle of Rum on a Mantelpiece 1911
-Analytic Cubism-

 In cubist artworks, objects are broken up, analyzed, and re-assembled in an abstracted form—instead of depicting objects from one viewpoint, the artist depicts the subject from a multitude of viewpoints to represent the subject in a greater context. Often the surfaces intersect at seemingly random angles, removing a coherent sense of depth. The background and object planes interpenetrate one another to create the shallow ambiguous space, one of cubism's distinct characteristics.

angles, framing, and gaze

gaze: direct
framing: public
angles: low angle, frontal angle.

in this picture we can see that the represented participant gaze directly at us from above. this picture is showing her power, and authority, and also how we feel some sort of involvement with this picture due to the frontal angle that being used.

gaze: indirect
framing: public
angles: oblique, high angle.

in this picture we can see that the represented participant gaze indirectly at us from below. this picture is showing her lower status and her weakness, and also how we feel uncomfortable with the indirect gaze in this picture. and also the oblique angle makes the some sort of detachment lingering in our mind from this picture, on how different the situation are between the life we have and the life of the represented participant in this picture

Kress & Van Leeuwen - Angles in visual grammar

in today's class, I have to find some information about angles in visual grammar.
here's some information that I got from the book of Kress & Van Leeuwen:

Horizontal angles
These suggest different links of involvement in relationships between the represented person(s) or participants and the viewer.

frontal angle

• frontal angle – suggests viewer involvement with the person or objects in the image

oblique angle

• oblique angle – suggest viewer detachment with the persons or objects in the image (Kress & van Leeuwen 1996)












Vertical Angle
These suggest different links of power relationships between the represented person(s) or participants and the viewer.

high angle

• High angle – the viewer is looking down on the represented person, putting the viewer in a more powerful position

low angle

 • Low angle – the viewer looks up to the represented person, putting the viewer in a less powerful position

eye level

• Eye level – the point of view is one of equality with no power difference involved (Kress & van Leeuwen 1996.)













source:
Kress, Gunther & Leeuwen, Theo Van (1996). Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design. London: Routledge.

Symbolism self made pictures

absolute

for this picture I use the mathematics symbol of absolute and the sun. As the sun is being used by people in the ancient time to represent absolutism.

infinity

for this picture, I use atlas and the ancient Egyptian symbol of infinite. Atlas is a Titan, a race of ancient Gods who comes before the Olympian Gods. In the Mythology, Atlas is being punished by Zeus (Jupiter) to carry the earth for eternity. As for the Egyptian symbol that I used, it's called Shen, or the claw of Horus (the God of Sun) that represent infinity.

blind

For this picture I used different kind of approach. to represent blindness, I used an old children games called: hide and seek. and I blur the picture, to emphasize that the kid don't know where's the location of the other kid.

Symbolism

well, Symbolism is an art movement which come from French and Belgium in the late 19th century. This art movement can be seen not only in painting, but in poetry and other arts, such as music and theatre.
The label "symbolist" itself comes from the Greek critic Jean Moréas, who coined it in order to distinguish the symbolists from the related decadent movement in literature and art.

Symbolists believed that art should aim to capture more absolute truths which can be accessed by indirect methods like putting some symbols to to tell something. So, they wrote in some highly metaphorical and suggestive manner, giving the particular images or objects with symbolic meaning.

symbol of freedom

 

Black Power logo (symbol of power)

symbol of man

symbol of woman

my future event review

I'm interested in reviewing  an event called without walls vol. 2 in Ambush Gallery 4 James St. Waterloo New South Wales 2017. Which is started in Wednesday 8 December, 6pm continues December 9, 10, 11 & 12 from 12-4pm daily.
The words in the website really caught me in

"Wall less, lawless art is back! This time, outfitting the walls of aMBUSH Gallery and then, outfitting you all, with some brand new artist designed t-shirts. After the highly successful Volume 1 at Oh Really Gallery, without walls has some new artwork by some new friends."

I'm interested in "lawless art" that particular words itself enough to caught my attention. Eventhough I don't know all the artists. But I'm willing to put myself into reviewing it.

The White Rabbit Gallery, an opinion by me.

located in  30 Balfour Street Chippendale NSW 2008 Australia, the white rabbit is free of entry fee, and it's open from Thursday - Sunday from 10am - 6pm.
The White Rabbit, provides a lot of art pieces in political theme, and some in more humanitarian theme. In retrospect, I saw a lot of political theme art pieces in that gallery, some which they said that it cannot be viewed in their respective country, due to it's anti-government content. and trust me, I really don't get it, and I really don't know why people paid high prizes for stuff like this.
I don't have any favorite pieces of art, but if I have to choose, which I think I'm required to do in this piece of opinion, I'll pick the one called "Faces of KonKong" by artist Xiong Wenyun.

Faces of KonKong

Why? because the artist is really-really have to be omitted to the mental hospital, which is one of the most memorable thing that I remember from my trip to White Rabbit Gallery.
Why I said that she have to be omitted in mental hospital? Well from what I heard, and I bet all the person in that particular room heard: in the past, the artist Xiong Wenyun lose her child, and after that, she make a doll/statue/puppet as her child replacement; she feeds the doll; sings lullaby to the doll; heck, she even think the doll is alive. And the most interesting story of all, is she's still living "normally" out there, outside the mental hospital, due to the public perception about her works of arts. Well in my opinion that fact itself is quite creepy.

The Picture that you're seeing now is the picture of the Doll, KonKong, which means emptiness, so as the museum guide said.


and Speaking about the picture that I don't like,,

where to touch

If I'm not mistaken the name of the picture is "where to touch" by Jing Zhiyong. I just don't get it, this picture looks like being drawn by 3 or 4 years old, and the facts that the artist is 24 years old makes it worse. I know that art is quite an ambiguous term, not definite, but this is really not a gallery material in my opinion, I dunno about the opinion from some art collector or an art critics somewhere, but this one is definitely not my cup of tea. I get it that the idea is art itself, but hey, everybody have an idea, even some kids from third world country have an idea, so what makes it so special?
And again, this is purely my opinion, feel free to have your own opinion about this "piece or art"


What I feel during my trip to the White Rabbit Gallery?

Uncomfortable, and annoyed. I truly don't have any connection or even get what the art is trying to said. Call me an ignorant or an artless kind of guy, but heck, I don't want to be such a snob to trying to pretend  to perceive and understand each pieces of arts there.

proxemics pics

intimate

personal

social

public

Proxemics

Proxemics is a study of set of measurable social distance.
which is means that in every social interactions there are some kind of measurable distance that can be accounted in every social interactions between a person with another person,,

    * Intimate distance for embracing, touching or whispering
          o Close phase – less than 6 inches (15 cm)
          o Far phase – 6 to 18 inches (15 to 46 cm)
    * Personal distance for interactions among good friends or family members
          o Close phase – 1.5 to 2.5 feet (46 to 76 cm)
          o Far phase – 2.5 to 4 feet (76 to 120 cm)
    * Social distance for interactions among acquaintances
          o Close phase – 4 to 7 feet (1.2 to 2.1 m)
          o Far phase – 7 to 12 feet (2.1 to 3.7 m)
    * Public distance used for public speaking
          o Close phase – 12 to 25 feet (3.7 to 7.6 m)
          o Far phase – 25 feet (7.6 m) or more

weekend task, my big fight with a cereal box

Some people asked me, what did I do this weekend, the answer is simple: I fight my cereal box. We had a fight, but eventually we're making up.