Utopian Australia Exhibition Dear, selection committee As curator I wish to recommend the inclusion of artworks by Danie Mellor and Cia Guo-Qiang for the upcoming exhibition “Utopian Australia – the Lucky Country?”. Utopia is defined as “an imagined place or state in which everything is perfect”. Danie Mellor and Cia Guo Qiang, both explore this idea of transformation through landscape, culture and country, employing symbols, narratives, traditions and materials to convey their own ideas on Utopia. To persuade you in this decision the deconstructing of the artwork, artists, compositional features and the individual meaning of the artwork and why this fits into the theme of the exhibition will be discussed. One of the most unique exhibitions held at GOMA, is the Cai Guo-Qiang art exhibition, ‘Falling Back to Earth’ which presents major new works by a truly global artist, whose large-scale installations and explosion events have made him one of the most innovative figures in contemporary art. The centrepiece of the display ‘Heritage 2013’ features 99 replicas of animals from around the world, gathered together to drink from a blue lake surrounded by clear white sand, replicating the lakes of Stradbroke Islands. The focal point Cia Guo-Qiang has created is the water. As it has drawn the animals to drink, so it draws the eye but then the animals and their reflections display their own characteristics. Through the use of placement and size of the animals around the piece, this creates an asymmetric look to it as the right side appears to be heavier. Each animal has a natural pattern which circulates the eyes around the piece, thus creating a rhythm and a sense of perspective and depth. Each individual animal has a unique patte... ... middle of paper ... .... [Accessed 14 May 2014]. • Danie Mellor: Exotic Lies Sacred Ties. 2014. Danie Mellor: Exotic Lies Sacred Ties. [ONLINE] Available at: http://artguide.com.au/articles-page/show/danie-mellor/. [Accessed 14 May 2014]. • Danie Mellor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 2014. Danie Mellor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. [ONLINE] Available at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danie_Mellor. [Accessed 14 May 2014]. • Google. 2014. Google. [ONLINE] Available at: https://www.google.com.au/?gfe_rd=cr&ei=d4lrU-boGcyN8Qep_ICoDg#q=danie%20mellor. [Accessed 14 May 2014]. Danie Mellor: Exotic Lies Sacred Ties at UQ Art Museum | The Urban List. 2014. Danie Mellor: Exotic Lies Sacred Ties at UQ Art Museum | The Urban List. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.theurbanlist.com/brisbane/a-list/danie-mellor-exotic-lies-sacred-ties-uq-art-museum. [Accessed 14 May 2014].
· 1999: Private commissions (2). Continues to work on paintings for traveling exhibition, Visual Poems of Human Experience (The Company of Art, Chronology 1999).
These assemblages of work mirrror a reflection of glimpses of landscape beauty, a particular solace found in the nature surrounding us during her time in the outback, elegance, simplicity and the lifestyle of the physical world around us. Gascoigne has an essential curiousity displayed in her work exploring the physical word that is captured in an essence of this rural home which brings evocate depictions, subject to the arrangement of these simple remnants that offer so much more. The assemblages focus us on viewing the universe from a unique turnpoint, compromising of corrugated iron, feathers, worn linoleum, weathered fence palings, wooden bottle crates, shells and dried plant matter. The art works offer a poetic expression that traces remnants around the world that individually hold meaning to their placement in the
...tues being so near. From the Sui dynasty (581-618), the “Quan Yin” statue reminded me of the readings in class about Red Azalea. I have always thought that this was a female saint; however, after seeing and observing it, maybe I’m wrong. Another place in the museum that evoked my feelings was the Japanese collection. The Japanese Buddhas were mentally more lifelike, because of the details of the color in the eyes. One could mistake some of them for demons and evil beings. However, they are all doers of good for mankind. The Japanese exhibit felt like a place of court where people came in to be cleansed, forgiven and punished after their evil deeds. Overall, my learning experience has taken me to a higher level of understanding that diversity within the same beliefs in Buddhism are mainly different by the way they migrated and the way Buddha is represented in the features and looks in another culture. However, whatever the culture might be, the teachings of Buddha are all shared and learned the same way:
When entering through the doors into the exhibit there is a very calm atmosphere and immediately I noticed how colorful some paintings were. The fact that the wall colors were of different colors such as Grey and white gave the room an interesting contrast and made the artworks stand our more. From my first observations I noticed that there were colorful and lots of nature themed paintings. Which made me conclude that the main theme of the exhibition was nature and society. Many of the paintings varied in size and one artist that particular stood out with the largest and most colorful paintings was Eve Drewelove. The biggest section seemed to belong to Drewelove possibly due to her paintings being bigger then most other ones. The majority of her paintings were painted by oil and her use of bright colors
Lori Earley was born in Rye, New York and graduated from the School of Visual Arts in New York City, where she received her BFA. Growing up she was always interested in art, but she was barely exposed to any. Lori’s style of contemporary surrealist figurative art was fully created on her own, since she matured early in her life. Her normal style is shown through her technique with oil paintings, but she also is talented with paper and graphite. Because her paintings are so unique, this made it possible for her to become the successful artist that she always dreamed of.
Anne Zahalka cleverly presents her intentions and interests in the world clearly throughout her artworks, more specifically her series ‘Welcome to Sydney’. Through the creation of this series Zahalka was interested in the changing multicultural nature of Australian society, closely drawing the audiences attention to the cultural frame. She effectively does this by portraying the subjects with dignity and respect by deliberately positioning them in an area in which they connect with. In doing so, Zahalka acknowledges her own experience, as the daughter of immigrant parents has influenced her conceptual practice. She uses cultural symbols to show the individuals are different, yet making them as one being put into Australian locations. In the image ‘Guangan Wu, Market Gardens, Kyeemagh’ a chinese immigrant stands in a panoramic landscape of market garden...
One pleasant afternoon, my classmates and I decided to visit the Houston Museum of Fine Arts to begin on our museum assignment in world literature class. According to Houston Museum of Fine Art’s staff, MFAH considers as one of the largest museums in the nation and it contains many variety forms of art with more than several thousand years of unique history. Also, I have never been in a museum in a very long time especially as big as MFAH, and my experience about the museum was unique and pleasant. Although I have observed many great types and forms of art in the museum, there were few that interested me the most.
Art is expression in the fastest form, novels taking hundreds of pages to draw emotion, while a single drawing can bring out the rawest feelings and personal experiences in seconds. There are many other things that can be achieved in art but for one artist Maya Lin, the art she does is made to convey emotion, show a universal truth, and create a spiritual atmosphere in her art. “Artists give form to the immaterial–hidden or universal truths, spiritual forces, and personal feelings” the attributes listed are found in her artwork. As every piece, she makes always exudes these same properties mentioned above to an extent.
Lin's guides and who achieves to belief her work with an appealing mixture of wonder and respect, she really knows what she is doing and is able to clarify it in words that make sense to a arrange to listeners. She talks about her work in terms of isolated sorrow’s and public practices, and speaks of the releasing act of recovery that can come from pointed for the name of a loved one on the wall of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and walking up to it In each case,. She comes across in this film as being completely without doubt, yet free also of the heavy feeling of so many supporters, she is self- certain without being proud, and loyal to deeply related to the truths of politics and culture, that make Maya Lin's work as respectable as it is, and bring it outside social explanation, outside the field of community memorials, into the kingdom of realistic and long-term art.
Many in the modern world seem to take great pride in the rapid pace which life holds for most of us. It is as if we might squeeze a few more precious moments of life's experience for ourselves if we move a bit faster. In reality, we rob ourselves of the enjoyment of the slow consideration of the phenomena we experience everyday. Art is something static which we might use to slow us in our perception of our world. It is not required that art be something static in motion but in thought. It is not something to be considered with only fleeting attention. A single painting could mean millions of different things to different people. It is the value of possibility and of perception that is so important. The Weatherspoon Art Museum at UNCG is a perfect example of the importance of this concept.
Starting with a brief introduction about our artist, Norval Morrisseau; he is an Aboriginal Canadian who lived from 1931 to 2007, and had been raised by his maternal grandparents. They were Christian devoted, who taught Morrisseau the religion's dogma. Morrisseau
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It is made from a piece of cloth cut into an octagonal shape, hemmed all around and later dyed with Tintex into a pale pink color. During the process of dyeing the cloth the artist also permanently wrinkled it, giving it not only a unique texture but also a shabby and neglected appearance. Supporting this presentation is also the lack of perfection, from the unequal sides of the octagon to the uneven hem lines, this piece becomes so intriguing precisely because it does not conform to the usual guidelines of art. None of the elements call attention on themselves but instead together create something peculiar that strongly demands the attention of the viewer. Displayed in the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, Texas, this piece can capture the eye with no limitations on its location inside the museum. It can be hung anywhere or placed carefully in the cold floor and it will capture the same effect and draw the same attention, regardless of where it may be. This is important because this piece allows its beauty and simplicity to exist anywhere, precisely because of those
‘Most artists have critical and productive relationships with their culture’. The statement above can be considered through the art of Jean Michel Basquiat and Ai Wei Wei as they attempt to depict their own cultures. Both artists demonstrate this in a critical light in response to world events and issues through their art. This is reflected expressively through Jean Michel Basquiat’s “Per Capita” and Ai Wei Wei’s “A study in perspective”.
Utopia and dystopia are terms that are continuously coined by the society they live in. Nonetheless when looking at Utopia within both contexts (renaissance and of the 20th Century) the term can be traced back to Riegl’s conception of art where the latter acts as a device of articulating how man desires to understand the world’. Thro...