Sort of Inspirations?

Cos I’ll never do anything like that. Ever. :O

I think it’s fortunate to have siblings in AEP with you. Before BT2, I actually called my sister to get a crash course on Van Gogh…and bro frequently kopes my AEP file. Apparently he still has my Montien Boonma, whatever that means…

You see, this post is the result of a brother in AEP who was asking his younger sister about sculptors that she know / learn from AEP. Aka bro and I. This is a list of the sculptors… Oh, Boonma’s not in. He’s an installation artist, that much my brother and I concluded.

1) Nyoman Nuarta. The first that came to my mind. Esp Rush Hour…and tocca colour.

2) Antony Gormley. and his Another Place. Bro: Huh? Chia: Um, he creates himself and does cheem stuff. Does he count?

3) Henry Moore. Characteristics: Feminine figure as hinted by the wide hips and breasts. Organic figure, elongated, and the later works are directly pierced by spaces. The AEP class is most acquainted with the Reclining Figure.

4) Han Sai Por and her organic sculptures, frequently has multiple elements e.g. Growth. NYGH has  a couple of her sculptures around the school…Words commonly used to describe her works: Organic, Abstract.

5) Andy Goldsworthy. I like his stuff; they’re all about nature. I’m still amazed by how he went in the dead of the night and winter to sculpt ice with his bare hands for his Icicle sculpture. Awesome!

6) Ng Eng Teng. Looking Ahead came up in our EOY D: But it’s an interesting blend of detail and simplification. Just enough detail to make out the pose of the arm and facial feature. And the rest are simplified or removed entirely…

7) Alberto Giacometti. Primitive rendering of figures…and extremely scrawny and elongated. Quite striking. They’re almost skeletal in form.

Constantin Brancus. Can’t recall what my brother said he did, but the tab bookmarked has…i think it’s “Flight”. It looks like a quill pen, the feather. Hmm, it seems rather solid for a feathery subject matter…

9) We have Auguste Rodin here, and his Thinker. The Apes are known to imitate Thinker’s pose just for laughs

10) Ron Mueck. Woah man, his detail D: Hmm, if I’m sian enough from physics to post a picture, I might…but imagine a face as big as you…*shivers* Oh, uh, facial hair on the face is apparently from the artist himself…

11) Mark Quinn. And a bloody face. A literally bloody face, preserved in a fridge. Um, now…what blood did he use again? Amusing story is, apparently while trying to move something, a worker detached the plug…not joint to a power point means no electricity, means no working fridge, means blood melted ><

12) Duane Hanson is one freaky person. He created a security guard somewhere, a cleaner…etc. And they are lifesize and practically (from the tiny thumbnails) look no different from the real things

13) Umberto Boccioni, Unique Forms of Continuity in Space (1913). Yay

Done.

nooboet.

Pi

Chia is trying to remember pi. Her brother has gotten her to remember this much:

3.141592653589793238462643383

There’s this chinese uh…xie yin to go with it:

山顶一寺一壶酒，尔乐，吾三壶不够吃，酒杀尔，杀不死，乐而乐，死了算罢了

The 够 and most ‘g’ starting words are 9, and the 了 is three (look at how the 了 looks like 3? )

And apparently 3.14 (14 march) is Pi day…

The above chinese thing can be found somewhere online

Er…I should go back to studying physics :3

nooboet.

Since the deadline’s over

I might as well post what I want to share anyway. My mom’s stuff.

Lately, she created this bunch of…Pottery stuff. With my sis.

Mom's

Mom's II

Mom's IV

Mom's V

Mom's VI

Mom's VII

Mom's VIII

Jump in numbers cos I deleted some…then some are for the paintings mom did that I put into another post.

Oh, quite misleading to put Mom. Some are created by my sis, I think.

Anyway…hmph. I insist I put in some effort my choosing angles. Mom was quite pleased with how I tried to get the best of her pottery out…especially the human faces. Since their nose were so big, and their eyes so buggy…I took the picture from a higher perspective to allow them to glare properly.  XD And their nose appear bigger XD

Anyone notices the portion where the red and purple ink intersects, such that holes in the paint is created? It’s called accident, but we found it a pleasant accident. Gives the pottery more texture and adds a different feel to it.

Hope to join them when December holiday rolls around.

Nooboet.

Voila!

V for Vendetta. Pwns. You may like to have a dictionary beside you to define all the cheeminology though. Or ask Jess.

Basically…V rescues Evey from this bunch of guys and introduces himself. With this long string of v-words. Voila!

Apparently the society is experiencing some Totalitarian rule…and V with his mask (V being a name chosen by himself) that looks like Guy Fawkes starts a revolution against it. Yeah, esp since something the gvt tried to do to him ended up making him physically and mentally more superior. He hid his identity, such that when he died, V became more of an “idea” than a person. (In other words, the public can just wear a mask and all think of the revolution, since they do not know who is behind the revolution. All can now “be” V). Interesting.

Anyway, the essential thing is…this typography thing is quite cool! I quite like the design and animation.

nooboet. signs. off.

Gross? I think it’s cute XD My sister yelled at me D:

bug1

Bug2

bug3

I like how i managed to capture the bug in the last angle. It’s quite hilarious. as if the bug’s looking down at me. I’m also quite proud of the fact that i managed to overcome all heebiejeebies to capture these pics…after all the bug does fly. And i’m not using zoom. Does it tell you how close I got to the bug? I was lying flat on the floor cm-s away from it My sister screeched at me. Not my fault. I like pretty bugs.

I dislike the many blurry pictures i got. These are the three i luckily captured clear and in ok angles. It’s very spontaneous and hard to control composition (esp since the bug moves ><)

I can improve on quick reaction and quick thinking to increase chances of taking good pictures, esp since so many good pictures last only for a second before it’s gone!

Class noticeboard

Chia and Minne - correction liquid

Paper cut cow

Oh the fun

Liquid paper art: Since Minne and I are sharing, there’s Minne, much taller than me XD With her fringe and straight hair XD As well as cow creation collaborated with Yuan Zhao

What I like : The creativity. The cow is hilarious. And recycled.

What I dislike: The cow is so post modern D: And ugly-ly cute. Remember beauty in the eye of beholder. and creator.

Improvement: Colour combi XD And length of legs makes cow even more retarded. I like my liquid paper drawing though XD

Delightfully sinful

Chocolate

Chocolate!

What I like: Clarity and creaminess!

What I dislike: Flash D: So gross.

What I can improve on…: Get better lighting.

Writings…LAST ONE!

Hurrah. When I finish this I have 3 more ‘art’ posts to go. Eek.

Firstly: the writing.

3b) Name another of Boonma’s work, and describe with the aid of a diagram the work’s subject matter, and the significance of his use of materials.

Montien Boonma is also a devout Buddhist, and his religion, along with his belief that all should be clear of their position in their religion, has allowed Thai Buddhism to become a major influence in his works. One such work is Lotus Sound, 1992.

<drew a rough sketch here>

This installation is made up of terracotta bells and other found media, often featuring a golden lotus bursting through the porous walls of terracotta bells. The bells are a motif frequently used by the artist, with holes between bells to give a glimpse of the protected space inside that cannot be physically reached.

The curved wall of terracotta bells is so repetitive; it looks almost like a mantra repeating again and again, like a Prayer to the Buddha, allowing one to sink into a state of meditation where one can attain peace and enlightenment and thus be freed of the cycle of rebirth, a belief in Thai Buddhism. It plays with the idea of negative and positive, the transparent yet opaque by using bells and space to form the porous wall.

The use of bells is typical of the artist, who prefers to use ready made, or easily found, objects in the environment. In this case, bells are easily found in Thai temples, making the public installation almost a private place for prayer and meditation instead. The porous wall feels almost alive, like a human ribcage that encases air within and this gives life. The lotus is yet a symbol of hope, springing through the wall, a promise of a journey of the mind and release if one devoutly meditates and prays. The silence during meditation and prayer becomes a tangible sound in this installation instead, perhaps more effective then any other sounds, such as sounds of bells.

7.5/10 (before editing)

Writings: 2nd last

I never liked typing out what I have already written. It’s so brainless and draggy. Unfortunately no machine created nor will be created in the decade can read my handwriting and decipher it. I’ll have to stick to typing it out myself.

Anyway:

3a) Describe the subject matter of the installation, with reference to the symbolism of the materials used.

Buffaloes from the Field to the Tow, 1988, is by artist Montien Boonma, a sculptor and installation artist who has been interested in showing how traditional Thai lifestyle has been gradually replaced by consumerism centered lifestyle. This particular installation used unhucked rice, sacks, straw, horn as well as stools. With two sacks filled with straw and placed on stools, they represent buffaloes with horns attached, as if forming the head, body and tail, resembling the subject matter, water buffaloes that is Iconic to Thailand. (Iconoclasm) The use of rice and sacks allude to farming practices of traditional Thai culture, reflecting the work ‘field’ in the title, as if signifying rice paddy field.

It is interesting to note that the artist once again used relatively perishable and ready made materials, such as rice. The mortality (strange word that Mr Lim has difficulty accepting) of the art work possibly states the gradual disappearance of traditional Thai culture and lifestyle, what with rice paddy field replaced by tall buildings of consumerism instead. From the title of the work itself, one can infer that the Buffaloes are moving from their home in the fields to the Town, emphasizing how the farmlands in Thailand are slowly replaced by buildings and factories instead.

8/10. Eeps.

Inspiration #5

Waah, so chiong. Having to vomit out all my inspirations is quite tough. Lucky mine are interesting But who to be my last inspiration?

Featuring: Wang Mo Peng (is he still teaching in NAFA?)

He’s also the father of our senior, Zi Jin(g?), the one who used to sport a wild hair style when we were in sec 3, during the sec 3 – J1 camp. Yeah. She now has tamer hair XD When he taught us (sadly he no longer does), he still taught in NAFA

In his house hangs a few gigantic paintings of his (with strong Chinese influence, such as the procelain pots and ancient China’s buildings). He paints oil on canvas, of various sizes. (duh) When he first taught us, we were just primary school students who prefer drawing imaginative drawing using colour pencil of parrots and elephants…

He’s why I like drawing I guess (besides AEP). Instead of trying to get us to draw realistically immediately, he encouraged us to draw those child-ish animal drawings, even providing us with templates of simplified animals, children and trees so that we can form a composition using those guides. Let’s see…I had a parrot looking down at a city, two elephants playing, random things like that. Mom had a bit more trouble…Wang Lao Shi had to encourage her repeatedly to imagine! Of course, she ends up drawing imagined stuff realistically XD

Slowly he weaned us to sketching with pencils, teaching us to look for the darkest and lightest portion of an object, patiently correcting us all the time. Do recall he had to control 3 primary students…of course my mom was there, but I don’t think anyone would be used to our household…

We also used oil pastel with poster paint, also going from imaginative (i spy my sister’s finding nemo scene) to more realistic still lifes (water melon. i think mine was rather juicy ).

Finally, we copied drawings of other artists. Thus the cezannes, the impressionists, and all. Therefore…our biggest influence and inspiration would be our at teacher, Mr Wang Mo Peng.

Many thanks for patiently nurturing us!

signs off,

nooboet.