Reflection: Forced connection 2

http://thinkjarcollective.com/tools/linking-disparate-ideas-and-building-musical-sculptures-out-of-trash/

Wow I really like the art of Felix Thorne. the machines are good looking - steam punkish and yet organic, lively. and the music is clever and curious. reminds me of gamelan, but yet, fairy like.


I love these multi-disciplinary and multi-layered art. this one touches on the following disciplines:

1. performing art - music and visual
2. performance art - live show
3. engineering
4. computing
5. sculpture
6. Music (composing, as well as the playing out)
7. lights...
8. video (when the works are constructed for such platforms)

http://felixsmachines.com/

The reason that I enjoy works that offer/present multiple perspectives is that I had read and been influenced at a young age, that there are many facets and faces of truth. Truth is supposedly objective, but can only be interpreted subjectively.
Thus, I feel that it is interesting and thought-provoking for art to provide different ways of interpretation and can provoke the audience to understand different levels.

In some ways, I think that there's some truth expressed in sincere art works, and it's this subjective truths that are essential to the art work. and sometimes, it is this truth that makes a piece of work beautiful and moving.

Many would disagree with my sweeping definition or generalisation, for the problem with the definition of beauty and art are divergent lines that would never satisfy.

扬州八怪

http://baike.baidu.com/subview/2326/4987555.htm

One of the most creative group of artists, loosely connected, but all of the Qing Dynasty. Including Luo Ping who claimed to have seen the ghouls and ghosts he drew. This picture below depicted all of them together, which is also a figment of the artist's imagination and a forced connection that was made. For the 8 artists never conferred together like that.

Steal like an artist

Notes: I like his nifty summaries of good habits. But he kinda speaks too slowly for me.

Artists are collectors, not hoarders (collect indiscriminately), of ideas.
It's these ideas that provide fodder for new creation.

Nothing is completely original. New ideas are remixes of old ideas. transformation is flattery.

Laura Carlin, Iron Giant

Work by another illustrator, Laura Carlin.

The image is made up for simple, childlike likes, but it's very visually interesting. why?
repetition of patterns, lines, shapes, what else??

from her work on The Iron Giant.

Da Vinci master copy

My friends suggested master copy to improve my drawings.
I'll do that if I had more time. Too much homework.
http://comfortpit.com/drawing-exercises-leonardo-da-vinci/

I wonder how would the below look like in chinese ink.

Quentin Blake

Quentin Blake is still my favourite illustrator.

Leonora Carrington - English-born Mexican artist, surrealist painter, and novelist

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonora_Carrington
using a cat - prop.

Georgia o'keeffe - American artist

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_O'Keeffe

quintessential art chick look

Louise Bourgeois - French-American artist and sculptor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Bourgeois

 

   her work

Marlene Dumas - Artist/writer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlene_Dumas
http://www.marlenedumas.nl/



self portrait

her work

It was not easy to access the image of this artist. To put in crudely, it seems like images of her works travel faster and further than the images of the artist itself.

Yayoi Kusama - Writer/Artist

It's interesting to see how artists style themselves.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yayoi_Kusama

 

 

 

I won't like to wear a wig.

「忐忑」龔琳娜

Coming from a tradition of technique and mastery then letting go.
Art music
Contemporary music
New music
Interesting and beautiful.

Rowena Reed Kostellow

Why isn't there a wikipedia page for rowena reed kostellow? Hello, internet? Anybody home?

Planes in space and repetition

Alexander Mcqueen, I think.

Alexander Mcqueen

Images of Karl Lagerfeld

Rock and Two Fish by Ba Da Shan Ren

Another painting by Zhu Da. At first glance, my favourite stroke is the one in the centre, defining the left and underside of the rock, and I shall only look at the stroke for now.
Perhaps, if I shift my eye, my favourite stroke may change in the next instant.
 


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bada_Shanren#/media/File:Zhu_Da.JPG

Breaking rules 5: Picasso

 “Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.” ― Pablo Picasso

 

What he said.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Picasso

Guernica by Pablo Picasso. 1937. Oil on canvas. 349 cm × 776 cm.