Reflections

"People holding flowers" - Zhu Weibing and Ji Wenyu

This is probably one of my favourite works of art in the gallery. It's very flowing and balanced and its not something that you would see everyday. I'm not sure what the artist was trying to say but i think he might have been trying to represent unity and love for mother natures creations. The artist probably used clay to make the small men, and the flowers were made out of a soft kind of material.

"Angel" - Gonkar Gyatso

In this painting, the artist reconfigures the Buddha of traditional Tibetan scroll into a shadowy outline filled with stickers. I find this very interesting, considering that not many artists use stickers in their art. This piece is very moving and i think the artist has used alot of organic lines.

APT6

On the 22nd of February, our school took a trip to the GOMA art gallery in Brisbane to see The 6th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art. It was incredible! Every single piece of art work was unique in its own way. There were some really energetic and glowing artworks, but at the same time there were many illusory and challenging pieces of art. But they all had something in common; they were all very, very powerful. The APT6 is one of those places where you could just stay forever and ever. You could stand there staring at one painting for 15 minutes and no one would care. These are some photos of my favourite pieces:

"flowers, fruits and portraits" by Shirana Shahbazi

My drawings

These are some of the drawings that I did a few weeks ago. I have heaps more but these two happened to be in my bag when I found the scanner in my school library. lalala. hope you like them!

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Street Art

Street art is by far the coolest thing since Doc Martin's. Street art is art developed in public places. You might have seen graffiti, stencil graffiti or just random spray paintings in huge cities such as NY or Paris. This is what we call street art. It is usually done using spray cans and stencils or sometimes even ink. Check out some of these awesome pictures done by street artists such as Banksy, Above, BLU and D*Face...

Luke Chueh

Ok ok. I didnt want to post anything on artists such as Leornado Da Vinci and Van Goh because I know that many of you already know their life biography like the back of your hands. So i decided to do a post on Luke Chueh. I know not many of you have heard of Luke Chueh. But I'm sure that you have all seen Fall Out Boy's 'Folie à Deux' album. Many people have asked me "Who designed the cover?". So i did some research and it turns out that Luke Chueh is the artist who designed this peculiar yet andearing cover. Luke is considered to be a member of the lowbrow, or pop surrealism art movement. His images have been remarked upon for their juxtaposition of cuteness. His paintings may not always be of couples holding hands on the beach, or flowers swaying gently in the breeze. But this man sure does know how to grab someones attention. check these out..

Salvadore Dali

I decided that im going to do a series of posts on some of my favourite artists. Now, lets begin with Salvadore Dali. Not many people might have heard of him, but im sure that theres not a single person in this world who hasn't seen his magnificent painting 'The Persistence of Memory'. (melting clocks)




Dali uses alot of emotion and symbolism in his work. Like 'The Persistence of Memory' for example; suggest Einstein's theory that time is relative and not fixed. This idea came to Dali when he was staring at a piece of melting Camembert cheese on a hot day. Interesting? Heres a link to his site www.salvadordalimuseum.org.
Theres only one word to describe this man...
legend.

Surrealism

Definition of Surrealism: A 20th-century literary and artistic movement that attempts to express the workings of the subconscious and is characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtaposition of subject matter.

Definition of Juxtapose:
to place close together or side by side, esp. for comparison or contrast.