My Dadaism : Elvis Dollar!! :P

This is my dadaism, Nothing much,
I just love money! and also love Elvis Presley
so I mixed both of them to be a "Elvis Dollar"

At least I believe that it gonna make the Elvis's lover as my Dad smile :)

Dadaism: (1916 - 1924)

Dada began as an anti-art movement,it was founded in Zurich, Switzerland,
the movement was a response to World War 1.
The word Dada literally means both "hobby horse" and "father",
but was chosen at random more for the naive sound.

In Zurich, the movement was centered in Hugo Ball’s Cabaret Voltaire,
where many of the founding Dadaist gathered to express their ideas.

Dada movement were the non-attempt to underlie work with any reference to intellectual analysis. Dada was also a reaction the bourgeois Victorian values of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The work was also absurd and playful but at times intuitive and even cryptic. Methods of production were unconventional, employing the chance technique, and found objects. Dadaists rejection of these values was an attempt to make a statement on the social values and cultural trends of a contemporary world facing a devastating period of war.

Buku_Cubism

I used my photos which was took with a parrot.
the reason that I choose this photo to apply to the Cubism is..
I just wanna play with the colourful of a parrot :)

Cubism

Cubism was a 20th century avant-garde art movement, pioneered by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, that revolutionized European painting and sculpture, and inspired related movements in music and literature. The first branch of cubism, known as Analytic Cubism, was both radical and influential as a short but highly significant art movement between 1907 and 1911 in France. In its second phase, Synthetic Cubism, the movement spread and remained vital until around 1919, when the Surrealist movement gained popularity.

English art historian Douglas Cooper describes three phases of Cubism in his seminal book, The Cubist Epoch. According to Cooper there was "Early Cubism", (from 1906 to 1908) when the movement was initially developed in the studios of Picasso and Braque; the second phase being called "High Cubism", (from 1909 to 1914) during which time Juan Gris emerged as an important exponent; and finally Cooper referred to "Late Cubism" (from 1914 to 1921) as the last phase of Cubism as a radical avant-garde movement.

In cubist artworks, objects are broken up, analyzed, and re-assembled in an abstracted form—instead of depicting objects from one viewpoint, the artist depicts the subject from a multitude of viewpoints to represent the subject in a greater context. Often the surfaces intersect at seemingly random angles, removing a coherent sense of depth. The background and object planes interpenetrate one another to create the shallow ambiguous space, one of cubism's distinct characteristics.

Gunther Kress and Theo Leeuwen

The grammar of images

Gunther KRESS and Theo VAN LEEUWEN,
Visual messages can be described in terms of their Representational function,
that is what they show, the content we see when we view them.
A selective outline of the major meaningful choices made in each of these overarching,
metafunctional categories follows, highlighting the aspects most significant
for the current discussion. It should perhaps be noted at the very outset,
though, that this approach does not take a deterministic view of visual
communication and is not intended either to rule out variation in individual
viewers' interpretations of an image or to provide an exhaustive description of all
that might be said. In the same way as linguistic analysis can provide an objective
description of the textual features that provide the meaning potential from
which a reader/hearer derives actual meaning, so visual semiotic analysis can provide
an interpretive framework, which each viewer will flesh out with their own specific meanings,
incorporating connotations, experience, world view etc.

Point of view involves the vertical and horizontal angles from which the image
is depicted and the symbolic meanings of power and involvement that may thus be created.
In terms of options along the horizontal plane, a frontal angle—full face view—construes
positive involvement between viewer and image, while an oblique angle—a view in profile
—suggests greater detachment, up to the extreme degree represented in this image
by the back view of the migrant. In the vertical plane, the image may be "seen"
from a high vantage point, depicting the viewer as being in a position of power,
looking down on the participants, while a low vantage point conversely depicts those
in the image as having power over the viewer, seeming in the extreme case to loom over us.
The mid-range option of eye-level symbolises a relationship of equality between viewer
and participants in the image.

My Symbolism

Infinity : The horizontal

I choose this photo to be the Infinity symbolic because
the sea and sky horizontal is never ending..

Absolute : Yin Yang

I use Yin-Yang sign but delete the spot inside
to make it looks clear, it's absolutely absolute each part
there are no noise, nothing else, just the black and the white separately..
























Blind : Nothing with Noise

I use the black colour to sign the Blind
I think about blind people, they don't see anything
but they still hear the noise of the world.

Symbolism

Symbolism originated in France, and was part of a 19th-century movement in which art became infused with mysticism. French Symbolism was both a continuation of the Romantic tradition and a reaction to the realistic approach of impressionism. It served as a catalyst in the outgrowth of the darker sides of Romanticism and toward abstraction.

Symbolism can use not for an art, it can use in many context as a number, poem, lyrics
, labeling, music , film, etc.




















Freedom

Vivid Sydney

Vivid Sydney is the world's spotlight shines that happens around May- June every year.
For 2011, they are happening around CBD on 27 May - 13 June.

but it's not in the period we study then... FORGET IT!! T^T

The White Rabbit : Review

"The White Rabbit" is one of the world’s largest Chinese contemporary art Collection.
Founded by Kerr and Judith Neilson, it focuses on works produced after 2000.
Located at 30 Balfour Street, Chippendale NSW 2008, Australia
Open : Thursday – Sunday : 10am – 6pm

After I went there with my class last Friday, we saw many kind many style
of contemporary arts from Chinese artists.

The one that I really dislike is the art from...Chen Fei

























And what I really like is Thrown to the Wind from Wang Zhiyuan
which is an 11-metre-high tornado of plastic inspired
by the artist’s dismay at the avalanches of rubbish that deface his home city
and the countryside around it.

The reason that I like it because this is one of reusing rubbish
That helps global warming and the landfill problem.
It's really creative way to support reusing and recycling plan :)

Gaze

Direct Gaze is the way to attract viewer eyes
by looking directly at the viewer.
It is more attractive than faces with inderect gaze.




















Direct Gaze

















Indirect Gaze
























This is the photo that makes people feels uncomfortable!!
Although this is not direct gaze photo but his eyes point to
what activity people does in the toilet
so it makes people feels really uncomfortable!!























This massage photo shows what relax and comfortable is.
they don't need to show whole activity they do
but viewer knows well that this is massage!!
They communicate by express emotion with their smile
and use soft and brighten color,
with a little bit blur effect to make viewer feel more soft.

Proxemics

Intimate distance






















Personal distance



















Social distance






















Public distance

Proxemics

Proxemics is a distance between people interactions.


* Intimate distance for embracing, touching or whispering
- Close phase – less than 6 inches (15 cm)
- Far phase – 6 to 18 inches (15 to 46 cm)

* Personal distance for interactions among good friends or family members
- Close phase – 1.5 to 2.5 feet (46 to 76 cm)
- Far phase – 2.5 to 4 feet (76 to 120 cm)

* Social distance for interactions among acquaintances
- Close phase – 4 to 7 feet (1.2 to 2.1 m)
- Far phase – 7 to 12 feet (2.1 to 3.7 m)

* Public distance used for public speaking
- Close phase – 12 to 25 feet (3.7 to 7.6 m)
- Far phase – 25 feet (7.6 m) or more

Task 1 : Week 2 (My Camera)

This is what I carry anywhere I go, My sweet Camera :)

Even in Bed ^^

It makes me have fun with shooting photo because its result is really cool.

My spring

Spring is the period between winter and summer

which everything will rebirth again from the end of winter

I adjust the photo to be more contrast because I want to show

how fresh of the spring with green colour.

Impressionism (week2)

Impressionism (1867-1886)

Frequently termed "California impressionism" these paintings cannot be pinned to one particular style or movement. Instead they are for the most part a joyous hybrid of French and.American Impressionism, Post Impressionism, Fauvism, and early modernist styles.

The reason that why i like this picture because it had activity inside. It showed what was happening at that moment.

References

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impressionism

http://www.artmovements.co.uk/impressionism.htm

http://www.artinthepicture.com/styles/Impressionism/

White Rabbit

"The White Rabbit" is one of the world’s largest Chinese contemporary art Collection.
Founded by Kerr and Judith Neilson, it focuses on works produced after 2000.
Located at 30 Balfour Street, Chippendale NSW 2008, Australia
Open : Thursday – Sunday : 10am – 6pm

There’s a brilliant, engaging mix of hypervivid,
technically stunning, audacious and elegant works.

There are so many kinds of arts to check out,
such as Pop Art, Photography, Teahouse etc.

I really don't have any more things to explain,
just............"WE MUST GO"!! :)

Participants

Street Art Uncut
Producer : Matthew Lunn
Represented :

The artistic parade presented in Street Art Uncut explores all genres of the trade including throwups, stencils, murals, stickers and many more. The author's knowledge of the artists themselves help understand the street art of Melbourne.