Event Review

SURFACE TENSION : The Art of EUAN MACLEOD 1991 – 2009

Little Snowman 2009

Have you been going to national art gallery before? This is the first time the writer went to the national gallery in National Trust S.H. Ervin Gallery on Watson road near The Rocks. There is one first major touring exhibition of work in there, by an artist who is considered to be the one of the finest painters of his generation. This exhibition will travel to six venues across New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland, so for the writers it is some kind of great opportunity

to be able to attend the elite exhibition like this one. For the first time the writers saw the advertisement through the internet, this event was chosen to replace the event that the writer choose before. When the writers search in Sydney event on 2010, she found this exhibition about the artist that she never known before and suddenly feel interesting in his art because, on the advertising they put one of famous painting from this artist Euan Macleod named “Little Snowman”. Even though this advertisement is very simple but the picture totally make the writer curious about what message that this painter want to deliver to the audience.

When the writer saw the a

dvertisement on the internet, writer known that this event is for art collector, elite people, and people who enjoy art especially painting and the target market for this exhibition are for old people which age is around 30-70 and some student which age is around <>und city, and that’s why this event not free either. In this exhibition itself, on the first step to the exhibition hall, it feel like this exhibition is very luxurious and the visitors are they who love paintings and want to collect it. Not all of the visitors buy the masterpiece form this artist artwork, but form the writer analyze, this event is for high class people, some of visitor they planning to buy and som

e of them already become a collector of Euan’s artwork.

This exhibition was organized by Visions of Australia and got the financial support from Commonwealth Government program, Tweed River Art Gallery as the support for the catalogue and S.H. Ervin Gallery as the place where this exhibition was held. In this exhibition, there is another artist named Conrad Martens who exhibit his worked as well, but this artist we can said as a senior painters. Conrad Martens already passed away for long time ago but his worked still admired by many visitor including the writer which is hasn’t known about what Sydney look a like in many years ago. Conrad Martens has a different style with Euan Macleod in the way he delivered his idea in paint the landscapes. Both of this painters take the s

ame theme which is they used landscape as the object in their painting. But Conrad Martens used naturalism as his style to draw and paint the landscapes, and most of his art used water colors, and drawing pencil and pen. The writer very enjoy on his painting because we can see Sydney landscapes long long time ago. Some of the visitors especially the old person very enjoy on Conrad Martens’ art work. They feel like they did the nostalgia to when Sydney not as modern as present. But the main focus in this exhibition still Euan Macleod masterpiece.

This event was runni

ng about one and a half month which is held from 12th November 2010 until 19th December 2010 in which is the writer already told before, National Trust S.H. Ervin Gallery and start from 11am till 5pm, every Tuesday until Sunday and closed every Monday and public holiday. In this gallery, they annually organized some exhibition like this, which is show some great artist worked. This exhibition is not a free one, and they got a different price for every type visitors. For adult it cost : $7, for children: free, for senior and student (concession): $5, and members of National Trust cost: $4.

Euan Macleod at Glen Helen,West MacDonnell Rangers,2006

His name is Euan Macleod. He’s born in New Zealand and moved to Sydney in 1981. His works most of it explore the human figure which is mixed with Australian and New Zealand landscape and that become his trade mark and perhaps we can said as his unique style. If we take a look to his artwork, most of it seems like Impressionist abst

ract style rough brush, impasto technique and feels like its just like unfinished artwork. But if we take a look further to his artwork, we can find some interesting figures, which is transparency and visitors can be amazed with how Euan put that figures and mixed it with the landscape background. Audience must take a look deeper if they want to enjoy Euan artwork. Even though his artwork look abstract but some part we can see the shapes clearly like when he paint the mountain, trees and all stuff. Some paintings reefers to his relationship between

his father who already passed away, some paintings he want to show his affection about nature.

Euan Macleod

If the writers take a look again, this exhibition is very interesting and can be count as a successful event. Even though the organizer only put not to many advertisement which is like writer told before that they only put on internet but

the visitors in there was so many. Even you can find another student from other school who come to see this exhibition. But unfortunately we can not take a picture for the exhibition itself, so that’s a bit disappointing because writer can not share the situation and how cool the painting. But if we want to remember or have some souvenir for our self or even for someone who we cares, we can buy the catalogue which is cost $15. Writer’s suggestion, it could be better if the catalogue is included entrance fee. In writer’s opinion, this exhibition could make visitors include the writer feel amazed, maybe on the first time for someone who really don’t know or don’t like the artist style will think that this artwork looks spooky but if you take a look a bit deeper, it will make you feel “wow” especially if you take a look the meaning behind the painting itself.

The writer have some favorite artwork form this artist. For the writer this is the first time writer saw some unique style in painting with rough brush but its got some pressure on it like Impressionism style which is make the result for the painting become look abstract. That’s why the writer got some favorite artwo

rk in here. The one which is make the writer amazed is the figure which is appear in every artwork that Euan made. There is one of the painting that really make writer loves his artwork. The title is “Two in boat (one standing) (2007)”. This art work tells about family myths and death, it shows the two figures in a small wooden boat. One figure is stand up and the size smaller than the one who sit in the boat and holding a Rowe. From the first writer saw this artwork, the writers already feel that this artwork is like relationship about father and child. Because if we take a look to this artwork, we can feel the guy in the boat seems like someone or a guy who older than the one who standup, but that’s it, writer cannot understand the meaning behind that. After writer read about the artist comment which is said “ ….death is something that’s part of all the mythology – it has a reality a lot of us have to deal with. Watching someone loosing their mind is quite horrifying…. – The relationship with my father is a difficult one. A lot of the paintings seem to be about looking at that relationship…- the two figures in the boat is a way of thinking about that relationship. I didn’t like boating at that time – and he was a great sailor. “ source: S

urface Tension: the art of Euan Macleod 1991- 2009 curated by :Gavin Wilson. (Taken from the booklet exhibition.)

After the writer read the comment then finally knows what the meaning behind this painting and it very touching, that’s the reason why this one become writers favorite. The painter want to show his relationship with his father who already passed away, he wants to show his loved for his father, and for the writer point of view, it works. That’s the reason why the writer amazed by the way this artist show or send his message through his paintings. Some of the painting, like “Lyttleton Harbour” he want to show how much he like the nature, how much he like the environment. On Lyttelton Harbour, Euan wants to show his childhood environtment, he wan

t to tell that our childhood is something that we can not escape. This is why writer become amazed, because its like we learn from the artist experience through his masterpiece.

Two in Boat (one standing) 2007

From this event the writer want to said that actually this event is very interesting and probably become a must see for they who likes art especially painting. But it doesn’t take any possibilities for someone who don’t know art and don’t like art much before, become interesting on it. The writer like how they organized this event because seems very organized for example if someone who want to buy they already put someone who in charged and all the staff looks professional it makes this exhibition look like high class one. Unfortunately just like the writers told before, that we can not allowed to take a picture, and they didn’t give you the booklet free, but if the writers take a look again that uncomfortable situation can be replaced because from here the writer can learn from the artist himself about family, nature, and childhood and know one technique that this artist used which is the result similar like impressionist but seems more roughly and the technique called “impasto”. The gallery also look nice and comfortable for visitors who want to look and they got café as well so this exhibition is a good experience for the writers to be memorized.

my POP art

this is my pop art work. I inspired by the way Andy Warhol style in pop art. He used bright colour in four portrait picture just like copy paste but change the colour in each picture.

In here i choose the aqua marine colour for the background to make the four picture can be seen clearly. i used a lot of red colour to show that the person in the picture is from china. For me red is identical with china.

POP ART

After dadaism, now we go further to another famous art movement, which is POP ART.
In here writer (me) want to share some information/ articles about what is pop art and who is the famous artists from this art movement and their masterpiece.

Popular Art or we known it as POP ART, is an art movement originated in England on 1950's and then spread to overseas to Unites States during 1960's. This art movement was marked by popular culture reflecting post-war society. I just found that this pop art term was first used by English critic, named Lawrence Alloway in 1958 because he saw that all post-war work was centered on consumerism and materialism and reject the abstract expressionism.

The term Pop art was first used by English critic, Lawrence Alloway in 1958 in an edition of Architectural Digest. He was describing all post-war work centered on consumerism and materialism, and that rejected the psychological allusions of Abstract Expressionism. An attempt to bring art back into American daily life, it rejected abstract painting because of its sophisticated and elite nature. Pop Art shattered the divide between the commercial arts and the fine arts. source: http://wwar.com/masters/movements/pop_art.html

this art movement style, influence the artist who did the picture or image for mass media, advertising, comics, and consumer product at that time.

POP ART has three major distinguishing characteristics:

Firstly,it is both figurative and realist,something that avant-garde had not been since its very beginnigs with Courbet's Realism

Firstly, it is both figurative and realist, something that avant-garde had not been since its very beginnings with Courbet's Realism.

Secondly, Pop was created in New York and London, and the world it looks out on is therefore the very special world of the great mid 20th century metropolis. Pop is routed in the urban environment. Not only that, but Pop looks at special aspects of that environment, aspects because of their associations and cultural level seemed at first impossible as subjects of art. These were: comics and picture magazines; advertisements and packaging of all kinds; the world of popular entertainment, including Hollywood movies, pop music and fair grounds, amusement arcades, radio, television and tabloid newspapers; consumer durables, especially perhaps refrigerators and automobiles; highways and gs stations; foods stuffs, especially hot dogs, ice cream and pie; and, last but not least, money.

Thirdly, pop artist deal with this subject matter in a very special way, on one hand they insist that the comic strip or soup can or whatever is simply a ‘motif', an excuse for a painting, like an apple in a still-life Cezanne. SOURCE: http://www.articlesbase.com/art-articles/characteristics-of-pop-art-2614051.html

if we wanna take a look at the pop art work from the famous artist, we can take a conclusion that characteristic pop art are bright and colorful. this movement was marked by clear lines, sharp paintwork and clear representations of symbols,objects and people from popular culture.

Pop artists also liked to satirize objects, sometimes enlarging those objects to gigantic porportions (see the giant spoon and cherry at the bottom of this page). Food was a common theme, but so were household objects such as chairs and toilets being made of squishy plastic instead of the materials you would normally expect.SOURCE : http://www.arthistoryarchive.com/arthistory/popart/

if someone asked me who is the famous artist from POP ART I would say ANDY WARHOL, because he brought Pop Art to the public eye. He did the Coke bottles with screen prints technique, and then the famous Campbell's soup tins and film stars that all become the icon of the 20th century. But there is a lot of pop art artist, we can say Roy Lichtenstein,Jasper Johns, Eduardo Paolozzi, Roy Hamilton,RObert Rauschenberg and Claes Oldenburg.

myDADAISM

This is my dadaism work. I've got this idea from the famous dadaist artist Michael Duchamp, he put the uriner as an art. for me its interesting because you can feel the artist feeling (the protest agians the art).

I feel the uriner shape is just like a chair so I combine the uriner with the bottom part of the chair. I think maybe with our technology now combine with the art can make something unusual like this.

DADAISM

Dadaism or Dada is a post-World War I cultural movement in visual art as well as literature (mainly poetry), theatre and graphic design, began in neutral Zürich, Switzerland. This art movement start from 1916 to 1922.

This art movement came out because of protest against the burgeois nationalist and colonist which is Dadaist believe as the root cause the war. Many dadaist believe the 'reason' and 'logic' of bourgeois capitalist lead people to the war.

DADAISM is about anti art against the traditional ideas of art.


The ideal of the modern art/contemporary art movement of Dadaism was to fight art with art. A great example is Marcel Duchamp's 'L.H.O.O.Q' which mocks the mona Lisa by installing a mustache on her face. The idea of Dada was to offend and shock the art world.
This art movement become a strong influence for Surrealism which is followed later.
source: http://www.allbuyart.com/art-movement-dadaism.asp


the famous artisit from this art movement:

Marcel Duchamp
Francis Picabia
George Grosz

Sydney Event

Pine Street Creative Arts Centre's

Annual Tutors' Exhibition 2010

Event Snapshot

When:

• Between Friday 03 December and Saturday 18 December from 00.00AM to 00.00AM

Opening Night: 6:30pm Friday 3 December
Exhibition will run until 18 December
Monday – Friday 9:00am – 6:00pm, Saturday 11:00am – 4:00pm

Where:

Pine Street Creative Arts Centre, 64 Pine Street Chippendale 2008 Venue details

Cost:

Free

Website:

http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/pinestreet/

More Info:

Pine Street Creative Arts Centre Jane Hooper 9245 1503 jhooper@cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au

How to get to this event:

Central & Redfern Stations.

Whats on this event:

Come and celebrate Summer at the opening of our annual Tutors’ Exhibition and witness first hand the creative skills of the artists teaching at our Centre. The exhibition will feature an inspiring display of beautiful artworks across the disciplines of ceramics, printmaking, silver jewellery, sculpture, painting, drawing, stencil art and more. Come and enjoy the art, and pick up some creative gift ideas for Christmas!

CUBISM

Is an Avant Garde art movement start in Paris around 1907. Lead by pablo Picasso and George Braque.

this art movement rejecting the single view point in the painting. Proportions, organic integrity and continuity of life samples and material objects are abandoned.
in this art movement, the artist used an analytical system which is three-dimensional subjects were fragmented and redefined from several different points of view simultaneously.

if we see the painting from this art movement it will look like the artisit lazy to draw or paint their painting, but if we take a look closer we can find out that it is a difficult combination of geometry shapes. for me this art movement its very unique because you ignore the realistic side, but we replace it with the combination of geometry but still nice to be looked at. if i take a look for some cubism painting they play with the colour very well.

later this art movement has second movent whic is called synthetic cubism. this is about introduction of different texture,surface, collage elements, and large variety of merged subject.


the famous artist/ painter from this art movement are:
Pablo Picasso, George braque, Juan Gris.

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involved

Angle:
for me sometimes we didn't realize that when we take a picture we used angle to make it look better. some angle, like vertical angle which is represents power and weakness. and for horizontal angle gives viewer more direction to take a look the picture closer.

in this two picture above, one its detach which is the represent participants not make the viewer involved. but the second picture which i take from the shampoo advertisement the represent participants just look straght away to the viewer. It's try to sugest the audinece to trust or buy the product.

Infinity











Blind











Absolute

Symbolism

Symbolisim is an art movement started around late nineteenth-century. this art movement came from French and Belgian. its affect the poetry and also other arts such as paintings.

Symbolism came out as a reaction against naturalism and realism.
Symbolism means the systematic use of symbols or picture to express some meaning. this art movement is an important element for religious arts. symbolist painters, used symbols from mythology and dream imagery to make the visual language more get into the soul.

Some artist especially for the visual arts section are:
Frida Kahlo,Caspar David Friedrich, Edgar Alan Poe

Event - Japanese Film Festival

14th Japanese Film Festival event review

when:
22-28 November 2010

where:
Event Cinemas George street, Sydney

Ticket:
Single session admission,
on sale 29 October (Sydney) and 4 November (Melbourne):
Adult $15
Concession $13
5-Film Pass: $60

further information:
www.japanesefilmfestival.net

what is all about :

The Japan foundation and Greater Union proudly present the 14th Japanese Film Festival from 22-28 November at Event Cinemas George Street in Sydney.

The festival promises a beautiful mix of the different genders of Japanese films and animation, also guarantees special guest, film forums and Q&A .

White Rabbit Gallery

Entry Fee:
FREE

Opening Hours:
Thursday-Sunday | 10am - 6pm

Location:
30 Balfour St Chippendale NSW 2008 Australia

White rabbit art theme:
its all about chinese contemporary art. and some of the masterpiece is talk about social matters in china, some of it talk about human and nature, and some talk about politics in their masterpiece.

My favourite piece of art:

Artist :Li ting ting
Born: Shanxi province, 1982

this painting if we not pay attention clearly, we just see like this is a beautiful painting or that's it. but when u see it closely, u can see that this is not only like just ordinary water colour painting. the artisit used the rice paper material and water based ink and its not a easy task, as i already try it before in my hometown. I like the technique that she used in this painting, look easy but actually hard to be done.


in here I feel the artisit wants to show about movement of live and if we take a look, we can see this painting upside down and the object in this painting(toys) still can be recognize.



My least favourite piece of art:
















artist: Chen Chunmu
Born: Quanzhou City, Fujian Province, 1981

i don't like this painting because it makes me feel disgusting and scarry at the same time. i like the technique that this artisit used but i dont like the figures that he paint. seems like dead chicken and its hard for me to get the message from this paintings.


My first feeling when I go to white rabbit gallery is, excited. From the first when i entered the gallery i already amazed by the red statue done by the Wang Jiuliang near the entries door. I was shocked but later I feel hungry at the same time because the smell of the toast from the tea room that this gallery have. but after we start the tour i'm getting more excited by the masterpiece that the chinese artist done. it's all amazing and some got the deeper meaning inside their masterpiece. each artist got different technique. I'm impressed because i just realized that some of the artist still young and they already can express about their thought about their country china. I enjoy this short tour.

the beneficial from this excursion for me is, I can know about the condition in china and how the artist shows it through their art.

Direct GAZE-comfortable and uncomfortable picture

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Comfortable

About GAZE

Gaze: is how you stare or look and pay attention to someone or something

there's two types of GAZE which are:

Indirect GAZE :
there is a picture which is the subject eye is not straight away look at the audience,that is Indirect Gaze.
the subject may see to another side and they connect with the audience with their movement









Direct Gaze:
the subject eye is look straight away at the viewer. direct gaze sometimes deliver the strong message to their audience.

Proxemics

the Proxemics is a study about measurable distance between people when they do some interact.

there are four level for poroxcemics:


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

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxemics

my soulmate day

6:00am: Wake UP!! don't miss the bus...














breakfast time....















prepare follow the master "get into my BAG quick!!"














always loyal to my master even when she studying at school....








































relax time....















BED time... with another soulmate...

my work

















original picture

Impressionism

Claude Monet The Cliffs at Etretat

Impressionism is an art movement that first started in France in the mid 1880. this art movement is a major one especially in painting, but later this art movement influence in music as well. In this art movement, many artist painted in a very traditional way which is spending hours in a studio, and this art movement pay attintion in extremely detailed paintings. the object sometimes focus in people or landscapes or some historical events.













Camille Pissaro

some the famous artist or can be the key people in this art movement are :
Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissaro
among those artist who get influenced with this art movement, monet,Pissaro,Sisley, andMorisot,maybe considered as a pure impressionest Monet is one of the artist that influence this art movement.

for me this art movement is really interesting because its put extremely detail on the painting with using the brush technique.
I like the way this art movement create the detail in a simple object like nature or people. they used bright colour and when you see it closed you can find sort of brush technique (like dot pattern).

white rabbit gallery

About white rabbit gallery:

The White Rabbit Collection is one of the world’s largest and most significant collections of contemporary Chinese art. Founded by Kerr and Judith Neilson, it focuses on works produced after 2000.

The origins of the Collection go back to the late 1990s, when Judith Neilson engaged Wang Zhiyuan, a Chinese artist then living in Sydney, as her art tutor. He introduced her to the astonishing explosion of creativity taking place in China in the wake of the “Opening Up” that had begun in 1989. Mrs Neilson began buying works, but soon ran out of space to hang them. She and her husband then decided to open a gallery that would make the exciting world of contemporary Chinese art available to all Australians.

The White Rabbit Gallery, a specially converted knitting factory near Sydney’s Central Station, has four floors of exhibition space as well as a theatrette, a library and a teahouse. Only a fraction of the Collection is on show at any time. The entire contents of the gallery are rehung twice a year.

Where is it?

Gallery address

White Rabbit
30 Balfour Street
Chippendale NSW 2008
Australia
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Postal address

White Rabbit
25 Queen Street
Chippendale NSW 2008
Australia

This art gallery is very cool. in here we can enjoy about chinese contemporary art done by both senior or junior chinese artist and guess what? it's FREE!

this gallery, they also have tea time facilities for us who wants to relax, chat or simply read the paper. They also got a exhibition called the BIG BANG and this exhibition become the third exhibition in there. THE BIG BANG surveys this artistic supernova through the work of 35 extraordinarly diverse artists.

so many great masterpiece in this gallery from great chinese artist, if u have interest in chinese contemporary art or maybe want to know about that or just wanna have fun and enjoy the art gallery and relax, WHITE RABBIT GALLERY? why not? ^^