a piece of artwork- story-teller

a piece of artwork- story-teller

《一虎八奶圖》(« The portrait of one tiger and eight boobs ») by Ai Weiwei

This photograph is designed by Ai Weiwei. This piece of artwork is to satirize the central government ignoring the poor lives of the farmers and corrupting capitalists. It has stirred up controversy since it was published. It is not because of the nude people but the hidden message in the photo. The four women in the photographs are just Ai Weiwei’s cyber friends. They take these photographs because they want to support Ai Weiwei.

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A better living place is a dream for the underprivileged

A better living place is a dream for the underprivileged

The photo is extracted from a photo exhibition, which called Sojourning as tempura – Inadequate Housing Photo Exhibition, organized by the Society of Community Organization from 7 to 14 March 2012.

This artwork is concerning about the social phenomenon nowadays in Hong Kong, which is inadequate housing. It indicates the private temporary housing and cubicle, cockloft of private permanent housing. In recent years, there are a huge number of partitioned rooms being built in industrial building. The number of people living at inadequate housing was around 100000 in 2010 and this government figure is underestimated. Also, accompanied by the increasing number of inadequate housing, there is a rising trend of tragedy of people who lived in these illegal building. The fact has shown us a worsening social condition of where we live.
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The Piano Staircase

“The Piano Staircase” by TheFunTheory.com

Year: 2009

Location: A subway station in Odenplan, Stockholm.

Thefuntheory.com is a company aims to “Fun can obviously change human behavior for the better”, so they can this “The Fun Theory”. They believe that the easiest way to change people’s behavior for the better is by making it fun to do. They try to use the most simply methods to make change of us. It is a good idea to create more fun and more beautiful life for the humans.

“The Piano Staircase” is an interactive musical installation. It lays the interaction black and tap keys that according to the piano keyboard basis at the subway stairs. Every key will create different notes of sound when you tap it by your foot. This installation aims to encourage the citizen taking the stairs rather than as little as possible to take the elevator when they are going to ride the MRT. This idea is combined with environmental friendly and human body healthy. According to a research for this installation, there are over 60% of people taking the stairs instead of taking the elevator after making this “Piano Staircase”. Lire l’article

Looking at two cities from one point of view

Looking at two cities from one point of view

                       

“Looking at two cities from one point of view”, 2002 by Rashad Alakbrov

Location

This art work should be a Mixed media installation-“light

Principle

In this installation, the lamps on both sides alternately turn on and off. Through this, two different shadows will form out on the wall, sometimes an oriental sometimes a western skyline appears will be  projected .

I find it on an art website ,when I saw it first time I focus on the objects that putted on the white table, all of them is some stationaries, decorations ,and CD .I can’t recognize there are any connection between them .it seems no special and any meaning  to put them on the table  ,and  they give me a feeling which is causal setting .so I want to appreciate them more careful and want to find out what it wants to represent. Lire l’article

Time Flips, People Changes.

Time Flips, People Changes.

Time Flips, People Changes.

What is installation art? By definition, Installation art describes an artistic genre of three –dimensional works that are often site-specific and designed to transform the perception of a space. Installation art always place on land, so it calls “Land Art” too. The artwork above called “Grow”, which is designed by Japanese artistic–Kumi Yamashita.

 

This artwork is simply made by the three-dimensional numbers figure, camera and lighter. Kumi Yamashita uses the reflection of the figures to create the illusion of woman’s body. What do you think about the number? The artist wants to show the main concept of “Time”.

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A movie poster can tell story

A movie poster can tell story


This is a movie poster designed by an English artist, graphic designer and illustrator called Olly Moss. He is best known for his re-imagining of movie posters. His work is regularly featured in some famous magazines, such as the Empire Magazine.
This is a movie poster of the film Die Hard, which is an action film in 1988. I choose this poster because the design of the poster is very special and the style of the posters (other movie posters) designed by Olly Moss is unique. The movie posters in Hong Kong are usually consist of photos of the protagonists or the main characters of the movies. But you will not see these photos (the photos of the protagonists or the main characters) on the posters designed by Olly Moss. You can only see some simple pictures on his posters. His designs are simple but they effectively represent the film. All the pictures on his posters can represent the plot of the films.
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Infective Textile (Anna Dumitriu)

Infective Textile (Anna Dumitriu)

A group of artists, doctors and scientists worked on the development of a textile-based artwork that takes the form of a Regency-style dress stained with bacterial pigments and patterned by antibiotics.

The artwork is a dress that is colored by antibiotics. The color and the pattern aren’t designed by human or programs, they are designed by the nature. I like this artwork the most among the ALCHEMY exhibition. The aesthetic feeling of the dress give a natural feeling to us. It is an extraordinary dress. The antibiotics have been killed already, so it is totally harmless to human. I like the natural feeling of the dress, which makes the dress more gorgeous. As this dress is not ordinary being dyed by colored substances but antibiotics and bacteria. Anna Dumitriu describe that it is a combination between science and art. Anna’s work sort of brings her artwork to the boundary between science and art. As the antibiotics that were used in her work, were built in laboratory that requires high technology. Compare to nowadays, the public usually separate art from science. In Hong Kong’s secondary school (in the old education system), it divides our focus of study into three areas, art, business and science. We can see this case also in university, Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science. Art and science are also good examples found in many debating topic. They all indicate that in normal situation, people conceive art and science as two very different subjects. However, in Anna’s work, she tends to merge these two different subjects together.

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