THE DADAISM

From my research, Dada art movement was between 1916 to 1923 occurred in France, Germany and Switzerland, a school of art. Dada is an anarchist art movement, which tried to abolish the traditional culture and aesthetic forms found in the real reality. Dada by a group of young artists and anti-war leaders, they learn through the anti-US protests in the works and expressing their despair of bourgeois values and the First World War.
Many works about dadaism are subversive.

For example, Max Ernst( 1891—1976),his work is typical.
His use of collage, the friction method, rubbing method and the scratch method, committed to creating a diverse, colorful virtual world.


















Represent Work

My work

Before

Cubism

Cubism is a history of Western modern art movements and genres.It pursue a kind of geometry-beauty and the combination of form and beauty.It uses the straight line and the curve to be the contour,the block stacking and staggered taste replace the traditional light and dark, light, air, gas. These techniques obviously not rely on visual experience and perceptual knowledge, and the main reason as to rely on, ideas and thinking.


Representative：Georges Braque

Pablo Picasso
Example:

Angles

Vertical Angle

These suggest different links of power relationships between the represented person(s) or participants and the viewer. • High angle – the viewer is looking down on the represented person, putting the viewer in a more powerful position • Low angle – the viewer looks up to the represented person, putting the viewer in a less powerful position • Eye level – the point of view is one of equality with no power difference involved (Kress & van Leeuwen 1996.)



Horizontal angles

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

My work

I found a woman face, and use the photoshop to eliminate her eyes.
I use this symbol to express the ""BLIND" because there's no eye on her face. She doesn't have eyes so she couldn't see anything.




I made two squares to express the "ABSOLUTE". Black and white are two opposite colors. They are the extreme colors as well. I just put them together so that they can express the absolute.

Symbolism

Symbolism originated in France, and was part of a 19th-century movement in which art became infused with mysticism.


What is Symbolism?
Express some ideas and things, symbols or objects is called "symbolic". It can be a logo, or a item.
Sometimes , the freedom , power, man or woman can be expressed by the "SYMBOLISM".

How symbolism can be used?
Religious Symbolism
Mathematical Symbolism
Political Symbolism
Color Symbolism
Architectural Symbolism
Advertising Symbolism

White rabbit

FEE TIME AND LOCATION

Fee: FREE

Time: Thursday-Sunday, 10am-6pm

Location: 30 Balfour Street Chippendale NSW 2008 Australia






FAVOURITE
My favourite piece of art is the work from Han jinpeng. He acted Mona Lisa by himself. He uses water to washed out the whole things about Mona Lisa. Another famouse paiting called Sandstorm affecting the maid who is pouring milk, use the same way to act. He use the wind to blow all the dress of the girl.They gave me the feeling of novelty.









LEASE FAVOURUTE
The lease piece of art is the work from Feng yan.
Maybe because I do not understand what he wants to show us. He just put many different color lines together and I do not know the meaning about this work.





FEELING
During the time in White Rabbit, I saw many similar element about China. The pictures about Chinese landfill and the plastic tree made me remember some parts of my China life.

uncomfortable

that seems so scared,especially the tooth

Images about gaze

Comfortable
gaze:



































The baby gaze somewhere with it's simple eyes.It makes people feel comfortable.























Uncomfortable gaze


















This picture looks scared.The woman open her eyes widely.Maybe she is scared ,it makes audience uncomfortable.

GAZE?

Gaze means someone watch something or somebody.
Indirect Gaze:people don't watch directly.


This picture shows what is the in direct gaze,she doesn't look forward. It seems like that the woman's mind is not happy.











Direct Gaze:people watch directly.
This picture shows a woman that stare forward. Maybe she wants to tell the audience something.

Proxemics

the intimate space is about 15cm to46cm.
the personal space is about 46cm to 120cm.












the social space is about 1.2m to 3.7m















the public space is about 3.7m to 7.6m.

My day with my bag~~

I go to school with my bag~~~
I have breakfast with my bag~~



I am having class with my bag~~~

season------impressionism

This is the winter view in my eyes.I used the brush and adjusted the color to white and the opacity20%. My hometown is in north east China. Winter is very very cold each year. There's white all the winter in my memory. After snowing, the whole city become clean and silent.So I make the picture much more white.

Impressionism

Sunday Afternoon on the Island of the Grand-Jatte

Actually this is the first time to learn about impressionism.
This painting I searched from the internet. I know that before because there's a similar photo so that they're famous. This painting is about a sunny Sunday.People are sitting, playing or eating around the lake. The main character is a lady who is holding up an umbrella and a guy laying on the grass. Strong color is easy to reflect the season。 Maybe that's the point of impressionism.
"Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement that began as a loose association of Paris-based artists whose independent exhibitions brought them to prominence in the 1870s and 1880s. The name of the movement is derived from the title of a Claude Monet work, Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant), which provoked the critic Louis Leroy to coin the term in a satiric review published in Le Charivari."

White Rabbit

“The White Rabbit Collection is one of the world’s largest and most significant collections of contemporary Chinese art. Founded by Kerr and Judith Neilson, it focuses on works produced after 2000"
This part is from the "White Rabbit" website. I have no idea about this gallery before today. When I browsing the website I found many Chinese elements. Actually it's just about Chinese culture.
I found many young artists here, and a guy called Chili caught my attention. "His Red Star Motel (2009) is a series of snapshot scenes set in the identically furnished rooms of a cheap Beijing motel and acted out by the artist’s friends." That's from his BIO. In his work, he used hyperbolic way to describe many crazy things which happened Red Star Motel.
Then I checked his website, there are so many mystery elements. He still keeps using performers to show his idea.

There's still many other artist in the gallery, I'd like to go there so day.

The artwork

The artworkwas made by Chinese artist Xu Beihong.Xu Beihong (1895-1953) was born in Yixing County, Jiangsu Province, on July 19, 1895. At age 9, he started to learn Chinese painting.

I like this image because I feel the horses are really running. And I like Chinese Painting very much. This one shows two horses running. It makes audience feel that the horse are really running.
Xu Beihong is good at drawing horse.Through Xu Beihong's efforts, new audiences & art museums abroad became familiar with Chinese art; as well, he had worked hard to advance Chinese painting within China.