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Critical Interpretation

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 14:22:07 GMT

SM1011 INTRODUCTION TO CONTEMPORARY ART

Project A: Critical Interpretation

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v Artist: Julian Beever

v Art work: Feeding the fish

v Characters: Edward (Designer)

Bella (Scholar)

Jacob (Gunfighter)

Preface

Bella, a normal human girl, is now in love with Edward, an incredibly handsome vampire.

In the meantime, her best friend - Jacob, a werewolf, likes her and treats Edward as enemy.

Today, they meet together because of one reason,

'Should Bella turn into vampire or werewolf?'

J: Bella, listen to me. Vampire is one of the horrible creatures in the world.

E: Ha! Werewolf is not much better.

B: You guys please stop talking for a moment, okay? I’ve just seen something interesting. Look over there. There’s a pool with a lot of green lotuses and a little wave. Also, a girl is sitting on a big lotus flower in the middle and feeding the fishes. But…as I remember, there isn’t any pool or fish.

E: Oh, Bella! You’re so cute.

J: Look, it isn’t real. It’s a painting. You will know what happens if you see in other angles.

B: Woo! That’s……!

E: As you see, it’s painted by chalk.

B: How do you know?

J: There’re a few chalks left in the right bottom corner.

E: Besides that, the painter used a technique, called ‘Anamorphosis’, which is a distorted projection or perspective requiring the viewer to use special devices or occupy a specific vantage point to reconstitute the image. Actually, this name comes from the Greek words meaning ‘formed again’.

B: Aha! I’ve heard that before. There’re two main types of anamorphosis: Perspective (oblique) and Mirror (catoptric) and obviously, this one is an example of perspective anamorphosis.

J: Probably, it may be created by Julian Beever.

E: As I remember, he has said, ‘My art is for anybody, it's for people who wouldn't go into an art gallery. It's art for the people.’ and he has also said, ‘Art shouldn't be locked away in galleries and libraries and books. Art should be for everybody and not just art boffins, historians and so-called experts.’

I really agree with his thought and I think this pavement art is what he’s talking about.

You see, there’re lots of people stand around to see this painting and everyone can even join into this work, like the little girl. Those of them may not often go to see artworks in gallery or somewhere else. It’s a good way to let people know more about art.

J: But I don’t think art should only please the public. Art is also a way for artists to express themselves. Besides the audience, personal feeling is included in an art work. Don’t you think an artist might feel happy or satisfied after he/she finished a work? According to a BBC interview of Julian, he mentioned that he was working towards building a photograph as his end result, and if he got that he was happy. It shows that he creates pavement drawing not only because of the public, but also because of himself.

B: Or we can say both are his motivation and I think there’s one thing else we can’t neglect. That’s the reason why he chooses to use this medium. He draws on the pavement by using chalk with anamorphic technique.

I can understand why he draws on the pavement based on the reason that Edward mentioned before. But why does he use chalk? Is it because painting in chalk is easier to be erased than other materials or because of other reasons?

J: Maybe you’re right. After all, it’s a street and public space so that the paintings will be removed one day. When it comes to, it’s easier to remove.

E: Besides, I think it’s easier to draw by using chalk. Let’s imagine how you can use oil or acrylic to draw on the roadsides?

J: Another reason for this may be because it’s more suitable for creating 3D illusion by using chalk. As you know, it brings different effect or texture when you use different kinds of materials.

B: Okay! So, why does he choose anamorphic technique?

In fact, artists have been using it for centuries to disguise erotic artwork and political propaganda. One of the most famous anamorphic paintings, ‘The Ambassadors’, was created in 1533, by an artist called Holbein. (You may find more details according to the reference website)

Do you think Julian is trying to bring out some messages about something like that?

E: Bella, don’t always see things too complicated. Maybe the only thing he wants to tell us is that sometimes, we should see the world in different angles. This pavement painting as an example, we can only see the impact when we find the right perspective. It just likes we need to see things in different angles until we find the best one.

J: That’s right. Or he may just want to find an interesting way to present his work and attract people on the street rather than just draw in a common way.

Moreover, it’s not necessary to give an exact meaning to an artwork. As I said before, you can just present your emotion or feeling through creating artwork and that can be the only meaning.

E: Yea! In your world, there’s only one thing – expression!

J: Hey! What do you mean?

E: I mean we’re different with werewolves; elegant vampires hanker for beauty and taste but not just express, express and express. I think you guys don't know what the real art is! I’m wondering if you can just see the artist’s feeling when you’re looking at this pavement painting. But let me tell you, there’re few of things you may miss, such as the colors, brightness, shapes, lines and so on. For instance, there is variation of colors. Can you see the water with different kinds of blue, like dark blue and light blue? Besides, there’re differences about the shadow of boarder around the pool. It makes the picture more realistic.

J: Ha! So, let me ask you a question. Do you think this pavement drawing is an art?

E: Of course!

J: How about ‘Graffiti’? Do you think it is a form of art?

B: You mean those images or lettering scratched, scrawled, painted or marked in any manner on property?

J: Yup!

E: Well, basically, graffiti is sometimes regarded as a form of art but other times regarded as unsightly damage or unwanted. It is often seen as having become intertwined with hip pop culture as one of the four main elements of the culture. But what’s the relationship between graffiti and the pavement drawing?

J: Sometimes, Julian’s pavement works are regarded as a kind of graffiti. As you see, his work and graffiti are drawn on the street. Both of them are a format of street art. However, not all of the graffiti are perfectly formed. Some are just letters or symbols. They may lack of obvious brightness and colors but the painters or writers, which they call themselves, can freely create and express their emotion without the so-called traditional technique of drawing or painting. Isn’t it better than just stress on the art’s sake?

B: I can understand what you mean. Besides these elements of art and the artists, I think they also show the contemporary culture. About the end of 60s in United States, there’re a lot of problems between the blacks and whites because of the racial discrimination. Therefore, the blacks used a variety of entertainment in order to vent their inner indignant feelings and tell their dissatisfaction. Some tried to use spray paint and drew graffiti on the wall and most of the topics are about ironic language or pictures.

Although I don’t think Julian’s purpose is similar to that, his pavement painting is a culture of street art in this century.

E: But if there’s just one person who does that kind of pavement painting, how can we call it a culture?

B: In fact, street painting has already existed and Julian isn’t the only one who uses anamorphic projection. Kurt Wenner is another example and I believe they won’t be the only two. If there’re people who draw, watch or participate and involve, why it can’t be a culture in our society?

J: Bella’s right. While culture is difficult to define, the word "culture" is most commonly used in three basic senses: (1) excellence of taste in the fine arts and humanities (2) an integrated pattern of human knowledge, belief, and behavior that depends upon the capacity for symbolic thought and social learning (3) the set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterizes an institution, organization or group.

Therefore, we can’t absolutely deny that.

E: Alright. You win!

B: Come on! We are just discussing but not having a debate competition, okay?

J: You see. Vampire is so troublesome.

E: Hey!

J: Did I say something wrong?

E: You……

B: Calm down please! Both of you can fight right after I go to the toilet. But before that, do you think this type of anamorphosis seems to make it real.

J: Your meaning is …?

B: What I mean is if those artists, like Julian, would try to recreate the true world by using 3D illusion. Generally, most of the paintings or pictures are 2D but we are living in the 3D world. By using anamorphosis, it gives us an illusion as the picture is 3D.

E: Since photography has appeared, some may think drawing is no longer a tool to record this world. According to what you said, anamorphosis can be a method of recreating 3D world in a different way.

J: It sounds funny. Why don’t we check in detail in library?

B: Never mind. I’m okay.

E: Sorry. I don’t think we’ve time to go. Probably, you may forget why we’re here today, don’t you?

J: Of course I remember! So, Bella, let’s make a choice.

B: To be honest, I don’t know what I’ll become to. If you want to know, you may read “Twilight”. See you then!

-End-

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Reference:

Wikipedia:

- Julian_Beever: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Beever

- Trompe-l'œil: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trompe-l%27%C5%93il

- Anamorphosis: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anamorphosis

- Graffiti: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graffiti

- Street_painting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_painting

- Kurt_Wenner: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Wenner

- Cultur: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture

- The Ambassadors (Holbein):http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ambassadors_(Holbein)

Artist Profile: Julian Beever (By: Chris Lord, MyVillage) http://www.myvillage.com/articles/51927-artist-profile-julian-beever

BBC - Birmingham - Entertainment - Pavement Picasso: http://www.bbc.co.uk/birmingham/content/articles/2006/01/27/pavement_picasso_feature.shtml

MacauBBS - 澳門凸區論壇's Archiver -『街頭藝術』: http://www.macaubbs.com/forum/archiver/?tid-92930.html

香港討論區 - 塗鴉(Graffiti)文化: http://www.discuss.com.hk/viewthread.php?tid=6993775&extra=page=3&filter=0&orderby=dateline&ascdesc=DESC&page=1

‘The Twilight SAGA’ by Stephenie Meyer

Sunday, August 26, 2007

Sun, 26 Aug 2007 13:57:45 GMT

尋日終於睇左""穿越時空的少女""

由上年開始已經想睇...不過到左今年先有機會去cinema睇

超爆好睇丫~~第時一定要買番碟先得

畫功都ok~~不過story就仲好

入面帶既訊息都好好

而且主題曲 - ガーネット (中文名:石榴石) 非常好聽

歌詞亦都好有意思

以下copy左幅圖同歌詞比大家睇睇

日文歌詞
劇場版アニメーション「時をかける少女」主題曲

ガーネット
作詞作曲：奧　華子
編曲：佐藤　準
歌：奧　華子

グラウンド駆けてくあなたの背中は
空に浮かんだ雲よりも自由で
ノートに並んだ四角い文字さえ
すべてを照らす光に見えた

好きという気持ちが分からなくて
二度とは戻らないこの時間が
その意味をあたしに教えてくれた補充時間：2007-08-23 22:50:46

あなたと過ごした日々をこの胸に焼き付けよう
思い出さなくても大丈夫なように
いつか他の誰かを好きになったとしても
あなたはずっと特別で　大切で
またこの季節が　廻ってく

はじめて二人で話した放課後
誰も知らない　笑顔探していた
遠くであなたのはしゃいでる声に
なぜだか胸が痛くなったの

変わってゆく事を怖がってたの
ずっと友達のままいれる気がした
終わってく物など無いと思った補充時間：2007-08-23 22:51:10

果てしない時間の中で　あなたと出会えた事が
何よりもあたしを強くしてくれたね
夢中でかける明日に辿り着いたとしても
あなたはずっと　特別で　大切で
またこの季節が　やってくる

いつまでも忘れないと　あなたが言ってくれた夏
時間が流れ　今頃あたしは涙がこぼれてきた

あなたと過ごした日々をこの胸に焼き付けよう
思い出さなくても大丈夫なように
いつか他の誰かを好きになったとしても
あなたはずっと特別で　大切で
またこの季節が廻ってく

中文歌詞

石榴石

在操場上的你的身影
比天空中的白雲還要自由
就連日記中描述你的文字
也彷彿照亮一切的光芒

曾經的我不懂什麼是喜歡
不過這段一去不再來的時光
告訴了我喜歡一個人的意義

將與你共度的時光銘刻在心底
不必刻意回憶也不會把你忘記
即使有一天我喜歡上了別人
你始終是特別的你重要的你
如同這個季節將循環不息

初次與你聊天的那段放學時光
自己學會了從不曾有過的笑容
聽到你歡笑的聲音遠遠傳來
為何我的心會隱隱作痛

曾經的自己是如此害怕改變
還以為我們可以永遠都是朋友
以為世上的事物永遠不會結束

在漫長無盡的時空中與你相遇
讓我學會了前所未有的堅強
即使某天我抵達了嚮往的明天
你始終是特別的你重要的你
如同這個季節將再次來臨

無論何時都不會忘記
自從你如此對我說的夏天
時光已匆匆流逝
直到今日我才不禁嘆然落淚

將與你共度的時光銘刻在心底
不必刻意回憶也不會把你忘記
即使有一天我喜歡上了別人
你始終是特別的你重要的你
如同這個季節將循環不息

Friday, August 24, 2007

Fri, 24 Aug 2007 09:10:01 GMT

今日偶然...

唔係~~呢個世界上係冇偶然~有既只有必然

今日上左林詠琛個blog到睇到一篇文章

覺得好有趣~所以想係度同大家分享下=]

還記得多少？

瀏覽125｜回應1｜推薦7

2007/08/22 13:45:36

人的性格，可以分為兩大類：向前看和往後看的人。我是後者。人生中，如果有甚麼絕對不願丟棄、不想失去的，對我來說，就是回憶。

然而有一種說法：我們腦海中，並沒有真正真實的回憶，一切記憶都是由我們加工製造出來的。要印證這一點，可以做一個小小的實驗：

閉上眼，回想任何一件你昨天曾經歷的事－與朋友碰面、與家人傾談、與同事一起工作，任何一幅回憶畫面也可以。

好了，現在張開眼睛。

剛剛在你腦海裡浮現的回憶畫面中，你看見了自己的臉吧！

現實中，在任何事件發生時，除非你的回憶畫面是正在照鏡，否則，你是不會看到自己的。換言之，所有回憶，都是經過後天加工的產品，這世上，不存在真正真實可靠的回憶。

看到這個論點，讓人覺得很無力。原來我一直倚靠著的東西都是某種形式的幻象。當中或許存在百分之九十真實，但還是混和了百分之十我一廂情願地製造的幻想吧。

在成長的過程中，我們的人生成績表中，不斷累積起曾令自己心靈悸動而往後漸行漸遠的人。曾經，我們相信仍能抓緊跟他們一起共度的回憶，然而，我們到底曾記得多少？

Wednesday, August 01, 2007

Wed, 01 Aug 2007 14:25:49 GMT

係HH既第二日...

晏晝先去~因頭暈+頸痛~~

今次真係omg囉

morning學琴~一路食lunch一路學~"電"ma?哈

Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Tue, 31 Jul 2007 13:24:54 GMT

今日第一日去hot hoops做helper

哈~感覺也蠻好...

做既野唔多~~玩可能仲多d ...^^"

識左d新朋友~~不過依家我好暈

耳水maybe唔平衡~

oh~It's time to go~88

Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Tue, 31 Jul 2007 13:22:26 GMT

2007-07-30

daisy生日快樂~!!

祝你早日達成"個個"目標~!!

Saturday, July 28, 2007

Sat, 28 Jul 2007 15:57:45 GMT

28-07-07

Matthew生日快樂~!!

18歲啦~~拎得身份證喇~!!~入得馬會~~買得成人用品啦~~

今日夜晚去左巴西燒烤同matthew+daisy慶祝

講開18歲~~先諗起大家原來已經可以入馬會買六合彩啦~!!

yo~~要夾$$既出聲啦~買得多~贏既機會又多d

不過matthew提出重要既一個point~~買馬贏既概率應該比六合彩高

不過贏到幾多$$又係另一回事啦~~呵

Thursday, July 26, 2007

Thu, 26 Jul 2007 14:24:30 GMT

今日有個fd sd比我睇既XDD

~結婚前後既分別~

往↓看：

他：太好了！我期盼的日子終於來臨了！我都等不及了！

她：我可以反悔嗎？

他：不，你甚至想都別想！

她：你愛我嗎？

他：當然！

她：你會背叛我嗎？

他：不會，你怎麼會有這種想法？

她：你可以吻我一下嗎？

他：當然，絕不可能只有一下！

她：你有可能打我嗎？

他：永遠不可能！

她：我能相信你嗎？

從下往上看↑ 看看吧

Thursday, July 26, 2007

Thu, 26 Jul 2007 10:22:53 GMT

23-26/07/07

港大中醫summer camp好好玩耶~!!

甫一去到camp~已經覺得好多人非常熟口面....我都唔知點解~哈

d tutors好好人~~其他營友都好nice唷~~

不過3日好似太少喇~岩岩玩熟又要走T^T

最鐘意係去hku講鬼故同做d tasks..........好正啊!

ps. d相遲d先post番上黎

Thursday, July 12, 2007

Thu, 12 Jul 2007 12:10:30 GMT

終於考完試啦~!!

不過距今已是兩個禮拜前既事-.-|||

咁遲先打番xanga~XDD

今次考到no.1~!! 好開心耶

自中三後就一直徘徊係頭3名內......一直都冇乜突破

講真~~真係好開心丫>v<

besides=========================================================

額頭既暗瘡又爆番出黎

唔駛問梗係夜訓 + 熱氣~~

唉........................點好呢?

我要又白又滑既皮膚耶-3-

ps. 雖然白皮膚與我無緣...