Unit 3 - The Art of Looking: Form, content, process and Mood

 Sculpture Seven, 1961. Image courtesy Barford Sculptures Limited Photo Mark Heathcote/Tate

I decided to do about this sculpture because i like the style and simple shape. The bold dark colour make the sculpture looks standing out from other and it isn't bright or random. The thing that make it join together like colour black and blue also making the green standing out without taking the spotlight from it. I used to draw it with pencil and colour pencil but i didn't have the image to show. I honestly finding the shape is effected and very simple to draw. 

Official Website that you can check about more sculpture that made by Caro. 

Unit 3 - Group Discussion

The group discussion about feminist arr, history and my opinion about it.

I am not the owner of this photo and it was taken from google image.

Question:

Was using a renowned painting to communicate with public effective?

I personally think the renowned painting to communicate can be effected depending on the person because some people may take it as copyright and not creative for just taking  other people painting and changed some colour, style and others. However some group may not think the same because it could've be very creative to them. 

Do youthink the Guerrilla Girls successfully got their message across? 

In my opinion, i think they does get their message across the public but others people, such as myself may think it kind of overreact to it. Yes they trying to said that female need more attention in art worlds but doesn't mean they have to go around wearing a mask saying girl doesn't get enough attention. They would've just show everyone how girls can get their art out. 

Has it made you question the objectification of women in traditional western painting? 

I finds this sexual harassment because i couldn't understand why people back in old time having to draw women naked? If women getting those treatment, why doesn't there any naked male in the art? women isn't just about naked body but they can be many things, can do many things and they aren't a dolls who won't feel any emotion. I am so glad that nowadays we are standing up for ourselves but some still need to be hear. 

Do you think there is still gender disparity in galleries and museums?

Because i barely go to any of galleries and museums, i wouldn't know much about it but i think there still more male artist's work than female.

Independent study:

Researching a feminist art critic or group: Feminist art movement  and Feminism & Feminist Art I finds this website very interesting and its got my point across about feminist.

This is about Feminist Art Criticism today that i took from the powerpoint during the class >

Unit 3 - Art Review Power 100 List

This is the top 10 of Art Review Power 100 List and I decided to pick Ai Weiwei to write about.
Found the list from http://artreview.com/power_100/ on 3/7/2016.

Ai Weiwei is an Chinese artist and social activist, prominent in reconnecting art with issues of social and cultural value. He is the 2nd top in Art Review Power 100. Ai's Blog

Ai Weiwei's history. Most of the Information i collect from http://www.artfund.org/news-pages/aiweiwei-biography/ on 3/7/2016

In 1958, He was bored in Beijing, the son of the celebrated poet Ai Qing. His father is denounced as a criminal following an anti-rightist campaign by Mao aimed at silencing intellectual who oppose his regime.

About 19 years later, in 1979 after studying at the Beijing Film Academy Ai Weiwei joins Stars group, an avant-garde art collective and pretty much working for the government until 4 years later, he moves to New York City.

The reason why i'm doing about him was because he seem to be in art world for quite awhile and he is doing about animation, filming etc. It kind of catch my attention and i wanting to know more what he doing for with his art style.

More information about Ai's sunflower seed "Click Here"
I found this interesting because it's just a small piece of arts that can turns into something interesting.  Making it realist must be hard and yet he challenging himself to create them and each one of the seed has been individually sculpted painted by specialists working in small scale workshops. the shape, size and colour is simple and can be easily point out it's a sunflower seeds and why i like about it was because i always into nature things and he create such a small piece with time and showing me that things can be great if you put your times into it.

Unit 3 - Art as Message

Art isn't just about copy the images from the books or learn it from other artist's work but it's also about putting our thought, opinion, feelings and generally express ourselves thought the artwork. 

Colour:

We as viewers decipher these messages to discover their hidden agendas using the clues displayed, bringing the pieces of the puzzle together to conclude what they mean.​

Signs present multiple meanings and to each person can be seen in various perspectives. Even the simplest thing such as colour can suggest multiple meanings.

Colour can turn into many meaning, depening on how people see them and they could also show the signs to help guide us. Every single day in our life, we see many different colours and some of them show the signs to help us go through daily life. 

The green sign is the showing safely 
Red sign is dangerous 

Yellow sign is careful/warming sign.

Everyday life, we using those colour to help us pick things easily without having to think the meaning of it because it's easy and clearly show within the colour itself. 

Illustration:

• Illustration comes in many forms, whether it is a drawing, painting, sculpture, typography, animation, it is visually communicated.​
• Illustration is widely used and can been seen everywhere, it used in books, magazines and papers.​
• It is also used for websites, advertisements and even album covers.​
• The messages displayed in illustrations are much more direct than other areas of Art and Design, as is graphic design and advertising.

Taken from the powerpoint in the class.

"Every 60 seconds a species dies out"

This is to show that every minute the species is dies out, animls that become less and less because the greed of human wanting to try something new without thinking of what can be the cause of this damage. 

Illustrator: Peppermill Berlin​

Graphic Designer: Sebastian Frese

The gun is the city we live in and we are pointing the gun at mother natural. Which mean we are killing the natural. I finds the art style really good because of how it looks and the way it been puts. I feel like this is s a great art piece because it showing that we are killing the nature buy cutting the tree so we can make something useless. We should be taking care of our world and not ruining them. 

this is to show that the ice melting because of global warming and those malting ice is turning into water, drowning our plant slowly. the colour was well used because they barely any bright colour and only pick an important colour like green and blue to point our nature. I finds this really simple and standing out because of the way it looks and how simple/effect it can turn. using the glass hour time to show that "We are running out of time, act now before it's too late" just like what it said in the art itself.

Unit 3 - Feminist Art Criticism

The Feminist art criticism was emerged in 1970s from the winder feminist movement as the critical examination of both visual representations of women in art and art produced by women. A ground breaking essay titled "Why have there been no great women artists?" by Linda Nochlin. She was one of the great artist in art world.

In my opinion, back in the old day, things that make the women challenge their visual representation was people didn't give enough attention to women art work, even there was many great female artist around the world in the time. But as the old day, women was still not count as equal to the men yet so they would giving less attention with their art work.

Women portrayed was mostly naked. As i looks in my research, women back in the day who were used as portrayed as likely not wearing any clothes and stay naked and to me, i finds this things kind of sexual harassment because of the way the treats the women in the art world was completely unfair and no right in there.

For my personal thought, i couldn't name any female artists that have equal status to make artists in the art world. I know there many female artists around the world but i barely know or do any research about them to actually finds out whos.

Judy Chicago is one of the pioneers of Feminist art in the 1970s. Her reason of why she wanting to do Feminist art was because she wanting people to be inspired by the women's movement and rebelling against the male-dominated art scene of the 1960s, which lionized the Minimalist work of artists like Donald Judd, Chicago embraced explicitly female content.

Along with fellow artist Miriam Schapiro, Chicago co-founded several pioneering ventures that sought to change the structure of women's artistic training, as well as broaden their access to, and visibility in, contemporary art. The women-only Feminist Art program, established at California Institute of Arts, centered on women's identity, experiences, and collaborative, discussion-based practices such as consciousness-raising. Womanhouse, co-founded by Chicago and Schapiro as an outgrowth of the Feminist Art program, was an installation and performance space dedicated to female creative expression. - Taken from http://www.theartstory.org/artist-chicago-judy Date: 3/7/2016

Her most important art was "The Dinner Party (1979)" It took her five years and cost around $250,000 to complete. Detail about the art: It's measures 48-feet by 43 feet by 36 feet, consisting of 39 place settings. Each place setting commemorates a historical or mythical female figure such as artists goddesses and others.

The next group that i would like to talk about is "The Guerrilla Girls"

In 1985, a bunch of female artists, incensed by an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art that included 165 artists but only 17 women, founded the Guerrilla Girls. Dubbing ourselves “The Conscience of the Artworld,” we started making posters that bluntly stated the facts of discrimination and used humor to convey information, provoke discussion and to show that feminists can be funny. We assumed the names of dead women artists, and began wearing gorilla masks when we appeared in public, concealing our true identities and focusing on the issues rather than on our personalities. - Taken from http://www.guerrillagirls.com/admin/moreherstory Date: 3/7/2016

This is the Guerrilla Girls's poster. this is to protect of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Gender imbalance brought this feminist critique out of the academy and into the public sphere. Nowadays the Guerrilla Girls still around the art world as well.

In my opinion about this group, i finds them asking too much for female right. They didn't really need to make such a big deal about it and should show people around the world what female can do.

With the public view, they would think it's great because there actually some people standing up for  female's right and equal and letting female artists get into art with their own talent out and not the female nudes.

Distinction Doors Live Brief Project Evaluation

Pinterest link - Secondary research doors

Pinterest link - Secondary research nature theme

Pinterest link - Primary research nature theme

The first thing I did in the project mind-map and the reason I did it, is because I wanting to make sure I have everything completed before the due in time so I did some planning and organising to the things I need to do, such as research, inspiration, development and final outcomes in this project with annotations.

After completed my mind-map, I’m begins to work on my research and I did my primary at first. Went around my neighbours and take a photo of their doors and I found out that many people around where I live still using the standard door so I barely found anything interesting that would relate to what I’m looking for, such as modern, contemporary and unusual designs but because of the nature theme I decided to do, I was be able to pulls it off and create my unusual designs. Another thing I’m look into is patterns as well, patterns in the leaf and how them create such a lovely pattern with no limits.

In my secondary research, I’m using Pinterest to help me with finding any kind of door, pattern and nature them and they were helping out a lots because I could find many different tree styles, unusual door and contemporary door designs so I did have some idea how to start off with my theme ‘let the outside in.’ I’m also did an artist research and the person I was looks into was Lesley Richmond, a textiles artist and because her work was based on nature, tree and leaf, I wanting to try out one of her design as well, I explores her work with mono printing but the outcome wasn’t good as I expected. Another two artists are David Hockney who using paint or oil paint on his work and bright colour, Piet Mondrian is post-impressionism, using pain and oil paint. All these artist helping me understanding how to think outside of the box, using bright colour to catch attention and realist would help the work looks stand out as well.

I’m personally think the secondary research was more useful than the primary research because there were more photos around the place I never been to or because I couldn’t get the photo I wanting in real life. The reason why I decided to do nature base on things around me such as tree, patterns, nature and others. Things that relating to the nature because when I hear of those things, it reminds me of ‘let the outside in’

Another research I did, is also target audience. I wanting to make sure I can get an actual target audience. The first I wanting people who did their research on doors do they would be knowing what kind of door they wanting, wanting to stand out from the crowd, modern design or existing home, both male and females aged from 25 plus. It was quite challenging to create a design that would be interesting of my design because I didn’t think someone would want a door like this but hopefully the final design I create, there would be someone liking it. 

After done with my research, I’m beginning to looks into what kind of thing I would be using for my door, such as style, materials and colour so I went to do a research on standard, contemporary, unusual designs, testing colour but I didn’t make a research on what material I would be using because when I ask the company, they said I don’t need to worry about that, which I didn’t worry about it and just skip it. The glad I wanting to use is frosted, clear glass, glass that’s similar to kara, scotia, flores marmara design that company had already because I founds them more standing out, making the colour glass seem clean as well while still having patterns on the glass.

I didn’t use any techniques on my final designs, mostly was just sketching, pencil and broad because I wanting to keep it simple and clean, I also did some annotation on my work as well to make sure I know what I wanting to do, what kind of the colour the company can be using and same for the glass design. All my designs was coming from my sketchbook that I decided to throw it in, mix everything together and just make my final designs and both my design, I don’t have an difficulties in designing both contemporary and standard doors, because I know what I’m doing, what are they and what’s their different.

At beginning of the project, I went well with my time management because I was using a lots of sticky note to help me organising my sketchbook, what I need to do on each page, how many page I would be doing on each section and how much time I had for this project but after complete everything, I got stuck with coming up with the final, I was scared and doesn’t know what I wanting to design, what really inspires me and what catch my interest. So I took quick awhile to come up with my final design but I pulls it off, I complete everything and I was happy with what I had.

I learn quite a lots of things when I’m working for the Distinction Doors company, because I wanting to make sure the thing I create catch their interest, i need to do a research of what people like, what they into, what they would be look into and how they would react to my presentation but in the end, it was a good experience. While watching people doing their presentation, I learns that being more creative and thinking outside of the box would catch their attention more, they wanting something unique, something that standing out from the crowd and things they never saw before.

I wanting to make sure I completed all my research, my sketchbook work and when I know everything I got was complete, I starting to take a photo of my sketchbook and I’m done with first thing. Another two things that I have to think was, how would I layout my powerpoint and what I would be putting in my powerpoint. Layout the presentation isn’t hard but thinking what I have to put on my presentation was difficult, because I wasn’t sure what I need to put it in but I got a lots of help from my tutor and my friends who giving me a feedback and I pulls it off quite well.

Even I have a lots to improve but I would keep learning from what I did wrong and think how I would improve them while being in college. My English will always going to be my problem and I will keep improving them slowly and so as my time management, researching and others.  

Week 7, Distinction Doors Live Brief Project

After completed everything, it's time to do my presentation.
I didn't know exactly what to do in my presentation, such as what i need to put on it, what the title on each page, or how would i layout the page. However i pulls it off and create it with many support from my tutor and friends.

This task was quite easy because i already know what i wanting to be talking about but i just didn't know what to put in the presentation.

This is a screenshot i took from power point to show how i did it how i simply layout.
I'm mostly layout the page and the information in bullet point, because i wanting to explain everything while still keeping the main topic in the presentation.