Abstract Drawing by me interacted with contemporary music

(1)

                Yamashita Trio(crazy stuff!)

(2)

                  Phil Niblock(drone organ)

                                 (3)

                Steve reich(pulsating music)

(4)

                     Nono(string quartet)

                   

Eugene Atget --- the prettiest Paris I have ever seen(1)

    At my first glance of his pictures, I felt a strong feeling of loneliness. And it is hard to state the reason why I got that feeling. Maybe it is because his pictures seldom include people or other characters. Maybe it is because of the balance of the black and white that can clam people down. Maybe it is exactly what Atget put into his pictures. His life was a legend.
    Looking back, Atget lost his parents when he was a little boy. He grew up with his uncle. He became a sailor in his early life. After the distant journey, he started to learn acting. Unfortunately, it was not a success transition for him. Then he decided to turn to drawing but gained nothing . He finally took up his 18*24cm camera and the wooden foot stool at the age of 40.
    Learning his history, It became easier for me to understand the loneliness. Being a sailor at that time could be a very risky thing. He experienced such uncertainty and dangerous when he was still a young man. After the risky journey, he was forced to accept the setback of his life --- the failure of becoming neither an actor nor a painter. The 40-year-old man lived in the artists' localities with his wife. However, the young artists regarded him as an odd old man and didn't want to talk with him. Sadly, he roamed into the streets of Paris in the early morning when there was nobody so that he can appreciate the quite streets as well as the serenity.

             

                       

Performance-------lemon

Lemon by Ken Friedman 1966

1. Buy the lemons==!!!
2. Place the lemons==!!!
3. Throw the lemons==!!!

How to turn a pen into a piece of art?(1)

  How a pen can be turned into a piece of art? This interesting question raised by professor Linda drew my attention. I suddenly thought of a famous saying by Auguest Rodin ---life doesn't lack of beauty, but it lack of the eyes which can find the beauty. Maybe we just should try to break our fixed idea. Art is not only something drawn on the paper and posted on the wall.It can be interacted with different medias. It was a coincidence that I was trying to finish my homework of the drawing class. I was not that satisfied with my drawing that time, so I grabbed the art eraser smoothly. It has a extremely soft texture, so that I couldn't help myself drag it.Accidentally, it dropped on the paper with a beautiful curly shape. I kept on dragging and let it drop on the paper......

               Without any reason, I just found it beautiful. Looking at the twists and turns, I could find a kind of power in it. 

                I sometimes take it for granted that art is something complex.

However, it can be something extremely simple.

Robert Rauschenberg --- The rule breaker (1)

     If you are a big fan of pop art, he would definitely be the one that can catch your eye. Pop art is sometimes misunderstood by people. Well, like we can never judge a book by its cover, we should always look beyond the surface. I'm thinking that it can not be called overstate to say that Robert Rauschenberg  is one of the most important pioneer in Pop Art. And the first can always be the hardest.
   At that time, nonobjectivism was something in vogue. Doing exactly on the opposite, Rauschenberg was aware of all kinds of materials such as advertisement, newspapers, logos and other daily stuffs. And that is what truly catches my attention. Just like a magician, he made unrelated things related!
   Here are something interesting things that I would like to share. Rauschenberg was surely a painter ---not an ordinary one however. The following is one of his most controversial work.

                                               Erased de Kooning Drawing

                                                          Three crowns on the Erased de Kooning Drawing

                          Robert Rauschenberg describes the story and process behind “Erased de Kooning”.

  Nothing? Something?There is an interesting talk on this picture by Rauschenberg himself --- http://artforum.com.cn/video/mode=large&id=2858   According to himself, 'I'm just trying to pick out a way to bring drawing to the all whites!'   It is so funny to hear him saying like 'I started to draw it! And....and then just erased it. It became nothing. And then.....you know, it became art. You know how ridiculous it is that you have to think ridiculously and then it became art. ' Art may not be something that have to be very logical. It can be something really simple, and even nothing just like the Erased de Kooning Drawing. We can barely see the drawing clearly but we are given the space to imagine it and feel it.