Arts & Design Blog

Foreign Culture In Malaysia

2012-06-20T23:43:00.000-07:00

Kitsch

This is the Shah Alam Stadium. The stadium is actually applying the culture of Greek and bit of Roman. Its in an oval shape. During old times in Greece, people build an oval-like shape building and named it as theater. They used the theater for many functions such as performances and sporting purposes. Nowadays, the stadium is also used for events like performances and also sporting. The purpose of adding this culture in the building is to show that it is more classic and is more easy for the spectators to view the events going on.

This is the picture of the golf club in Kuching, Sarawak. The building is clearly applying the Egyptian culture by using the pyramid-shape. The designer of this building change a bit on the design of the pyramid. He took of the bottom part of the pyramid and made it overlapping. So it apparently seems like two pyramid overlapping over one another; one standing above the another one.The designer added this element in the building and the purpose is to show that the people in the golf club is protected by God because during old times in Egypt, the people thinks that the pyramid is the house of the Gods. The pyramid is a triangular-shaped building which the top is pointing towards the sky which is believed to be pointing towards the Sun which is the God, Amun-Ra (creator of Sun). People nowadays believed that if we build a building like the pyramid-shaped like, Amun-Ra will protect us with his holy powers which shines over us, the innocent human beings.

The building in this picture is the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange Building. From this building i noticed that the building has Doric columns as design in it. Doric column is origin from the Greek culture. Malaysian took the idea of the Doric column and apply with their own specific design in it. The windows of the building are mostly embedded behind the Doric columns. Using the Doric columns can show that the building is a classical design and with the colour of brown, it also brings up more feeling about classic.

In this picture shown that the windows and the pillar have Greek culture in it. The pillar shown is a Corinthian pillar which this kind of pillar are usually shown in Colosseum during Greek era. The Corinthian is one of the three classical architecture of Greek. Malaysian applied this technique in the building to give and show more on the classic of the building. With the Corinthian order, the building will look more higher class and will impress the view of the audiences. The windows of this building are also applying the Greek architecture culture. The glasses of the windows are embedded into the skele of the windows which are the racks. This shows a bit of mysteriousity.

This picture clearly showing a stone fence wall of a particular house. The piling of the fence wall is probably using the doric column technique but without something supporting behind the fence wall. Doric column are usually apply on fence wall and windows to show the classical taste of the architecture on the building. Malaysian likes to imply this type of technique is because they like to have more classical taste like the Greeks. This type of architecture also apply the Kitsch technique which is repetition of the doric column.

Definition of Kitsch (wikipedia-Kitsch)

Kitsch is a form of art that is considered an inferior, tasteless copy of an extant style of art or a worthless imitation of art of recognized value. The concept is associated with the deliberate use of elements that may be thought of as cultural icons while making cheap mass-produced objects that are unoriginal. Kitsch also refers to the types of art that are aesthetically deficient (whether or not being sentimental, glamorous, theatrical, or creative) and that make creative gestures which merely imitate the superficial appearances of art through repeated conventions and formulae. Excessive sentimentality often is associated with the term.

The contemporary definition of kitsch is considered derogatory, denoting works executed to pander to popular demand alone and purely for commercial purposes rather than works created as self-expression by an artist. The term is generally reserved for unsubstantial and gaudy works that are calculated to have popular appeal and are considered pretentious and shallow rather than genuine artistic efforts.

The concept of kitsch is applied to artwork that was a response to the 19th century art with aesthetics that convey exaggerated sentimentality and melodrama, hence, kitsch art is closely associated with sentimental art.

Bahamut

2012-06-20T23:02:00.001-07:00

3D Cube Design

This blog is post by me to present a 3D cube assignment work.

My 3D cube design is the dragon, Bahamut which is appear from the Final Fantasy game. I do it with longer working hour.

This picture shows that the structure of the dragon, it is release a mega fire ball on landscape board.

The concept of my project is created a decorating model because it is very powerful and it can play with or add a little function. The picture above is my finish project model.

This is the left side view of the bahamut dragon.

Besides that, the head of bahamut dragon can be adjust to against to the mega fire ball, so its look like shoot the mega fire ball.

This picture shows that the mega fire ball also can be adjust to balance against the bahamut dragon look like shoot fire ball.

This is the right side view of the bahamut dragon.

This is at the top down view of the bahamut dragon.

This is the back top down view of the bahamut dragon.

That's all for my blog entry. THANK YOU!!

Lao Zhi

2012-06-19T09:28:00.000-07:00

History Man Image

According to legends, Laozi leaves China on hiswater buffalo.

Lao zhi is a mystic philosopher of ancient China. He is the best known as the author of the "Tao Te Ching". His association with the "Tao Te Ching" has led him to be traditionally considered the founder of Taoism. We call Lao zhi as "Taishang Laojun", or "One of the Three Pure Ones" because he most religious forms of the Taoist religion. Lao zhi translated literally from Chinese means "old master", and is generally considered honorific. According to Chinese tradition, Lao zhi lived in the 6th century BCE.

IMO: I think Lao Zhi is a scared and great people in our chinese races. His most famous book "Tao Te Ching" has teach us the truth about how to become a good people. Beside that, He is founder of Taoism, Taoism as a religion to help people and teach them the truth.

Video Of Lao Zhi's "Tao Te Ching"

Reference Website:

1.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laozi

Mithuna Yaksha & Yakshi

2012-06-19T09:27:00.000-07:00

Yaksha & Yakshi

Description

Now, this two sculpture that I want to discuss, it names Yaksha which is put at right side, and Yakshi which is put at left side. The first one I want to discuss is Yaksha, he is name of a broad class of nature-spirits. Yaksha and Yakshi are caretakers of the natural treasures hidden in the earth and tree roots. They are appear in the India, Jain, and Buddhist mythology. From the research, I got it show that he has a dual personality in Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist mythology. In other hand, he is an in good natural-god who is associated with woods and mountains；in another hand, he is a bad dark-evil like a kinds of ghost that called bhuta who is hunts the travelers. In Indian art, the indian artist draw the male yaksha as a fearsome warriors, the female yakshi as a beautiful young women. The another one I want to discuss is Yakshi. She is the counterpart of the male Yaksha. .Yakshi is often describes as a beatiful young woman. Althought Yakshi are kindly but there are also Yakshi as a malignancy characteristics in Indian folklore.

IMO: In my religion's buddhist mythology, the Yaksha is most describe as a ghost who is a hideous and malevolent spirit to eat people and can fly at the sky and can hide to hunt people. But I believe that Yaksha has dual personality because our buddhism believe that Yaksha is god and he also is a evil if Yaksha do wrong things to the people. Next, I found that in Indian, Buddhist, Jain, they all think Yakshi is a beautiful woman because she is the god look kindly and peacefully.

Reference website:

1.http://baike.baidu.com/view/30469.htm

2.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaksha

3.http://www.pantheon.org/articles/y/yaksha.html

4.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakshini

The Creation of Adam

2012-06-19T09:26:00.002-07:00

Michelangelo's 'Creation of Adam', Sistine chapel ceiling in Vatican Museums.

Description

The Creation of Adam is a painting of Michelangelo's fresco Sistine Chapel ceiling 1511 years. It is take to illustrates from the Binlical story from the Book of Genesis in which God the Father breathes life into Adam, the first man come to the new world.

In the painting, the man who is the Adam is painted at the right side of the painting, he is naked, body shows more muscular, looks feel relax, laening against rock, and giving his to old man. Next, the old man in the painting who is the God of father, he is surrounded by angels, covered by white silk-robe and he also has a white bearded. In addition, there are more angels surrounded to the God of father, they are holding the God and one of the angel is covered with a green cloth. There also has a big dark red cloak cover around the God and angels.

Through to the painting, we dont know why two of them giving their finger pointing each other, is that meaning of this proportion to them? So, through the research show that many artist explain the God of Father is giving the new life to the Adam because Adam looks like no soul inside the body. So, Adam is giving out his finger to receive the new life giving from the God.

Last but not least, there are some element shows in the painting. The first one is line, it shows organic line for curve to the human figure outline, mountain, and clothing of God.The is organic, it shows organic shape for the human figure such as body of Adam, God of Father, and angels. Next is colours, it shows warm and cool colours. The cool colours are blue, white, and green. The warm colours are dark red which is shoes the big cloak cover around by children and the God. The fourth is texture, it shows simulated texture which is imitate to the muscular shape because it is looks realistic. Last one is value, it shows are 3D value and high key value. The 3D value is the muscular shape and shadow shows more 3D. The high key shows bright colours which is white, red, and beige.

Reason: Actually, I decided to post this painting because it is the painting in my second assignment that I chosen. So, I thought it make me more understands to the story of the Creation of Adam after I do this research for the painting. The information above is some part of the research I've gotten because it is too much details information to writing for this painting.

Reference website:
1.http://www.rome.info/michelangelo/sistine-chapel/creation-of-adam/
2.http://litmed.med.nyu.edu/Annotation?action=view&annid=10326
3.http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/m/michelan/3sistina/1genesis/6adam/06_3ce6.html
4.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Creation_of_Adam
5.http://mv.vatican.va/3_EN/pages/x-Schede/CSNs/CSNs_V_StCentr_06.html
6.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elements_of_art

Liberty Leading The Paople

2012-06-19T09:26:00.001-07:00

Liberty Leading the People

Description

Liberty Leading the People is a painting by Eugene Delacroix. This painting is painted to commemorate the July Revolution of 1830 years, which is toppled Charles X of France. In the painting, we see that a woman as a personifying to liberty leads the people forward over the dead bodies, she use her right hands to hold the tricolore flag of the French Revolution and her another hands hold a bayoneted musket. This painting is the one famous painting painted from the artist, Eugene Delacroix. Delacroix used the painting like a political poster for the revolution. Then, he was a member of the National Gaurd. When he painted, he placed himself into the painting as the man who is painted on the left side of the painting and wearing a black top-hat. So, we see that painting is shows that the heroic poses of the people fighting for their liberty. This painting also shows that the struggle of the people fight for their liberty, and allows the viewer to empathize the struggle of the fighting war.

Reason: I choose this painting to discuss because this painting is the one of the painting I like. It shows me more understands to the people fighting for their liberty, and let me know that how skilful from the artist to painted this painting.

Reference Website:
1.http://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/rschwart/hist255/la/delacroix.html
2.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_Leading_the_People

Tang Yin

2012-06-19T09:26:00.000-07:00

Tang Yin

Introduction To The Artist

Tang Yin is a famous Chinese painter from our Chinese history. His courtesy name is Tang Bohu that is better known with every Chinese people. His courtesy name Tang Bohu give by people because he is born in Changzhou which in Ming Dynasty in the year of tiger, so he is named Bohu and Tang is his first name. Tang Yin not incessantly in painting, he also was a scholar, calligrapher, and poet of the Ming Dynasty whose life story has become a part in popular role. Tang Yin also was a leading scholar of the "Four Literary Master of Jiangnan". The "Four Literary Master of Jiangnan" included Wen Zhengming (1470-1559), Zhu Yunming (1460-1526), and Xu Zhenqing. Tang Yin is expert in landscape, figure, and bird-flower painting. As to bird-flower painting, he is excelled in freehand ink-and-water which were casual, free, and graceful. Besides that, his poem also very good and attractive because his poem inscribed on painting and reflection from his emotion.

IMO: Tang Yin is the one artist I like, so I want to share something about Tang Yin to everybody. I very admire to Tang Yin's painting, especially his ink-and-water painting because it is looks so nature and realistic from his painting.

Reference Website:
1.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tang_Yin
2.http://www.chinaonlinemuseum.com/painting-tang-yin.php
3.http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/582415/Tang-Yin

There are some painting of Tang Yin shows below:

Walking in the Mountains, Listening to the Pines and Streams

Blowing a Bamboo Flute

Chrysanthemum

Oracle Bone Inscriptions

2012-06-17T11:53:00.000-07:00

Oracle bone

Oracle Bone Inscription is the earliest Chinese writing scripts. The first found of the Oracle Bone inscription is in 1899 years. Our Chinese people called it "Jia Gu Wen". The Oracle Bone Inscription, "Jia Gu Wen" is refers that it is a shell or bone writing. The words writing in this Oracle Bone Inscription are the one of the ancient written languages in the world. Our Chinese words are changes and mortify come from this Oracle Bone Inscription. Besides that, this Oracle Bone Inscription which is records what happening in the late Shang Dynasty (1300 BC - 1400 BC).

IMO: This one Oracle Bone is I study that know it after graduates my primary school. I find it more interesting about the ancient words changes to the new Chinese words now. So, I post it to share this information.

Reference Website:

1.http://chineseculture.about.com/library/weekly/aa_oracle02a.htm

2.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_bone

Kroisos Kousos

2012-01-10T08:00:00.001-08:00

Anavyssos Kouros, ca. 530 BC.

Description

This is the another sculpture I will discuss, It name's Kroisos Kousos (Ancient Greek). It is a marble sculpture from Anavyssos in Attica. This sculpture is dated within c. 540 - 515 BC and stands 1.95m high.This sculpture is now located in National Archaeological Museum of Athens. It is functioned as a grave marker for the fallen warrior who is names Kroisos. We look to this sculpture proportion, we see that it is free standing, both of its hand is put freely and stiffly at both its side, and its face looks a little bit of "archaic smile". From the research shows that the inscription on the base of the statue reads: "Stop and show pity beside the marker of Kroisos, dead, whom once in battle's front rank raging Ares destroyed.“

This sculpture is thought more represent to a ideal image of a person because it is represent more looks like the Kroisos than a actual potrait drawing. It also build up as a fact that it is displays in an ancient Greece status for the common man.

IMO: I think the artist of this sculpture is very admiration to the brave warrior. The dead of brave warrior let the artist feel sad and the artist make a sculpture to represent him to let all people to remember the brave of the warrior. I see that this sculpture shows more muscular that represent the warrior how he strong.

Reference website:

1.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kroisos_Kouros

2.http://www.ancientgreekbattles.net/Pages/52561_KroisosStatue.htm

Lady of Auxerre

2012-01-10T07:58:00.001-08:00

The Lady of Auxerre

Description

The discovery of this sculpture which was found in the storeroom of the Auxerre museum in 1907. The Auxerre museum's location is a city east of the Paris. From this sculpture, it is a sculpting stone from the seventh century BC in the Greek world. We can see that she has a U-shape face, a heavy hair looks like Egyptian hair, and she use her right hand to touch her chest. From the research, the heavy hair looks like Egyptian hair, and she use her right hand to touch her chest is mean that touch her solar plexus, her left hand shows more free and stiffly at her side. From her smile, we can found out her smile is a "archaic smile" and contains more secret hint from her smile. Research shows that her styles just like the the Early Archaic style.

IMO: I think this sculpture, the Lady of Auxerre is very beautiful because the artist shows her more organic line and good human proportion and her hair looks like Egyptian hair. Last but not least, her "archaic smile" looks very nice.

Reference website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_of_Auxerre

The Labyrinth & Halls Of Bulls

2012-01-10T07:51:00.001-08:00

The labyrinth and the mountain

The Labyrinth

Minotaur at center of labyrinth, on a 16th-century gem

In Greek mythology, the Labyrinth was an elaborate structure designed and built by the legendary artificer Daedalus for King Minos of Crete at Knossos. Its function was to hold the Minotaur, a mythical creature that was half man and half bull and was eventually killed by the Athenian hero Theseus. Daedalus had made the Labyrinth so cunningly that he himself could barely escape it after he built it.

The Mountain, Cave Painting

Halls Of Bulls

This cave of wall called the Hall of the Bulls, it also called the Rotunda. It is an extension of the entrance zone. It found on cave walls found near Lascaux. It is about 20 metres long, and it varies in width between 5.5 and 7.5 metres.

The images in the Hall of the Bulls which is contains 130 figures, it including 36 representations of animals and 50 geometric signs. In this painting, we can see that it has painted horses, cattle, and deer on the wall.

Video of Halls of Bulls:

Reference Website:

1.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labyrinth

2.http://www.lascaux.culture.fr/?lng=en#/en/02_01.xml

The Background Of Ai Wei Wei

2012-01-10T07:47:00.000-08:00

Q/A & Ai WeiWei Background

Question And Answer:

1. What do you want from this course?

I want design knowledge and certificate from this course [GD].

2. What do you want to be doing in 5 years? 10 years? 20 years?

I want to train my drawing and creative skill in this 5 years, so I

will go out to find a job to work in the 10 years and I wish I can

become a creative director in others 20 years.

3. What do you hope to get from this particular class?

I hope to get some knowledge from History Of Art And Designs

in this particular class, I think it quiet important to our designer.

4. Is history of art and design necessary do you think for your larger

goals?

I think it is necessary to my larger goals because it is important

turning points in the 20th century.

5. The blog should reflect on this course?

The blog can reflect this course because we can share more

information and knowledge to others people.

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The Background Of Ai Wei Wei

Ai WeiWei

Ai WeiWei was 54 years old now. He arrested April 3rd for “economic crimes” by the Chinese government. The relative mystery surrounding the events and actions of this saga have captivated and drawn protests from the international community. Who is this artist that is so relevant culturally and politically that by the simple act of disappearing, he moves the biggest governments in the world to action.

To the begin, Ai Weiwei was born in 18 May 1957 in China. HIs father (Ai Qing) is a poet that relegated to a labor camp for his words. He co-founded the group “Stars when he attended the film school. He spent over ten years living in New York from 1981. He working as an installation artist by mainly manipulating found objects and attending art school. Ai WeiWei returned to China from 1993 because his father became ill. He has lived there up until his arrest. He has had exhibits in China, Japan and Korea, the UK, US, France, Israel and Brazil just to name a few.

Besiade that, Ai WeiWei has many creative project, for example :

Ai Weiwei's contribution to theDocumenta 12 in Kassel 2007

Template (2007) after collapse

Sunflower Seeds, 2010

The Nest, the Beijing National Stadium at night during the 2008 Summer Olympics

"Forever" - Courtesy of slamxhype.com

his installation piece Bubble

Ai Weiwei Exhibition at Lisson Gallery

Ai Weiwei Sunflower Seeds closed

Reference Website:
1.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ai_Weiwei
2.http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/8693717/Ai-Weiwei-was-subject-to-immense-psychological-pressure-in-Chinese-jail.html