Sandrine Vallée

As we are working on clays the studio art class right now, I googled surreal sculptures with clay and found outstanding works Sandrine Vallée. He is a French plastic artist who makes drawings, sculptures, and paintings. The subject that he works on dictates his choice of the artistic technique. He utilizes different materials and forms of artistic expressions to give substance to the ideas.

He began with modeling the clay. His earlier sculptures are mostly figurative, and mostly female characters. As the time goes on, he started to simplify the shapes, and focus on the movements, and the curves. His sculptures was no longer detailed by express the dynamics within his work. After all, he started to work on surreal projects.

The simplicity and the dynamics of the works have attracted and fascinated me. His work reaches a point that is between complex and simple. He utilizes different materials to create new sculptures and projects.

After I researched on Sandrine Vallée, I started to consider about to use different materials to be my medium of my projects. Perhaps, I can focused more on the motion and the rhythm of the work instead of the details.

Work Referenced:

http://www.sandrine-vallee.com

Unbelievable Sculptures by MyeongBeom kim

Myeongbeom Kim’s works and projests contain both man-made and natural elements, with the aim to accomplish surreal and dream-like spaces. He received his MFA in sculpture from the School of The Art Institute of Chicago in 2008. Previously, he studied environmental sculpture at University of Seoul, South Korea.

 

Myeongbeon stated that “I try to examine how my surroundings are perceived and remembered. To do this, I listen to a whisper from the objects within my surroundings. I attempt to have an intimate, private dialogue with the world, trying to concretely present the way things approach me, by using other mediums.”

 

"To ask what an objects means to me is like asking what being I am. I have consistently experienced my surrounding objects from the perspective of life, growth, and decline, which lends vitality to my work."

 

 

There are thousands of surrealist sculptural artis around the world. MyeongBeom kim is unique in his own way. He combines the elements of nature and human commodities and creates special relationshiips between his sculpures and the surroundings. I appreciate his work in a way with both reality and artistic values. Although many of his works are again the current physic laws, he forms a balance within his projects. Thus, I reguard his work as "Unbelievable".

 

 

Work Referenced

http://www.myeongbeomkim.com/en/

http://artistaday.com/?p=9453

http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/beautifully-surreal-sculptures

Stunning Photoes by Martin Stranka

Martin Stranka love nature especially the smell of autumn and grains in the sunset. He told us that he is a self-taught professional photographer. She born on April 13, 1984 in Czech Republic.

His special “breath taking “photography have successfully amazed thousands of people and gained tons of fans, in addition to this, he has been known to be related to surrealism.

He won more than 30 international photography awards in the past decades. Including: Sony World Photography Awards, EISA Photo Maestro or International Photo Awards and Digital Photographer of the Year.

One special, He has created book covers for the biggest New York publishers like Harper Collins Publishers and Sterling Publishing. Also he has worked with other publishers, in person around the world.

 

I appreciate his works with with a sence of serenity. It thouches my feeling by catching the dreaming moment in peoples life. According to his interviews, he described that his art works deny the laws of physics and erase the border between conciseness and dreaming. The world, where impossible becomes evident, and the perception of reality is shifted to its next level. Most importantly, he is trying to unique space of balance and serenity. I like his work and wish to share with you the "dream-like" images that took by breath away.


Work Referenced:
http://www.photographyoffice.com/2012/01/20-examples-of-breathtaking-surrealist-photography-by-martin-stranka/
http://www.martinstranka.com/news.html

Sam Gilliam's Amazing Art Works

Sam Gilliam is a Color Field Painter and Lyrical Abstractionist artists.

He wa born in Tupelo, Mississippi, in 1933, Gilliam spent his youth in Louisville, Kentucky. After receiving his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Louisville in 1955, he served in the Army (1956-1958), then returned to the University for his Master of Arts degree (1961). In 1962 he moved to Washington, D.C.

Sam Gilliam utilize a spontaneous and improvisational techniques, particularly his pouring of vivid pigment on to unstretched, draped canvas,or clothes.

The unique artworks make him one of the foremost artists to emerge from the Washington art scene.

 This is a work that he poured paints on the Canvas with expressed feelings.

WORK DATE: 2012

CATEGORY: Paintings

SIZE: h: 30 x w: 22 in / h: 76.2 x w: 55.9 cm

He also uses woods as his medium.

WORK DATE: 2008

CATEGORY: Paintings

MATERIALS: acrylic on birch

WORK DATE: 2011

CATEGORY: Paintings

MATERIALS: Acrylic on birch

WORK DATE: 2005

CATEGORY: Installations

MATERIALS: Acrylic on IFR muslin

I found out Sam Gilliam's artwork accidentally on the facebook. I was fascinated by his expressive use of color. He utilizes clothes as the medium that he works on his project. It was really cool that he didn't paint on the paper but transformed the 2D art work into 3D by hanging it up in the space. I felt that the interactions between color and spaces crates a harmony. Through different mediums, he succeeded in grabbing people's attention as well as expressing his feelings.



Work Reference:
http://www.phillipscollection.org/research/american_art/bios/gilliam-bio.htm
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/27/AR2011012707246.html

Blog assignment- What do you want to do?

After pondering for a good amount of moment in addition to my experience,  I just realized that I want to work on culinary arts. I love biology as well as arts since long time ago. It’s amazing to observe the  complexity and creativity the nature has. I have try hard to establish connections between those two subjects. Ms. Jones and the college counselor from SAIC have told me about Medical Illustration which consists of biological  and artistic elements. However, after looking trough informations, working on projects and trying on different perspective of art. I begin to realize that I didn't want to study biology and art together in terms of Medical Illustration but to work on Art as design and biology in terms of application or technology.

I want to major in product design incorporates culinary arts. It was unbelievable that I found out that I like to bake since I believe those are not suitable for me but others who are neither interested in academic nor artistic field. I believe that I can design sweet and dishes in order to make it a form of beauty instead of simply a substance that people eat. 

In the future semester or year, I can work on designing and aesthetic expression through sketches and projects. Regard the theme of the project, I believe that I should develop my own style which can represent or express myself. It was my weak point where I didn’t have my own style but wandering around from one style to another. Most importantly I should set a goal and achieve it.

Seeking Inspiration: Best Pop Latte Art Designs

The following are the pop Latter are some art that created with latte

People enjoy coffee not only it's taste nowadays. People started to concern about artistic values in their lives. The photos above shows that some coffee were used as a medium to do art. They reproduce the image of manga on the surface. I believe maybe culinary arts might be a good choice of both 2D and 3D arts. Besides it can be a medium to express thoughts or ideas just like a pice of paper.

Impression on "Miss Representation"

The trailer of Miss Representation states that "most common way people give up their power is by thinking that they don't have any".  It uncovers a glaring reality that we live with with every day but we fail to see, which is the influences of medias on the false interpretations or representations on both males and females. In the film, it reveals the fact that American teenagers spent 31 hours watching TV, 17 hours listening to music, 3 watching movies, 4 watching magazines 10 hours surfing on the Interned and 10 hours and 45 minutes using media each day.

The multi-medias are shaping the individual including children, society and even the entire world. The documentary is trying to express the truth that girls are getting messages about how they are gonna look like while boys got messages that what is important about girls. We are getting these messages through videos games, advertisements, movies and so on.

I agreed with the documentary that the medias especially the Internet is spreading the biased or distorted messages to us. It has become so powerful since the Internet is instant and wide-spread. We usually believes that girls should be be beautiful and boys should be handsome from the stories diving childhood. Moreover, the media is spreading the concept that girls should be sexy and males should be powerful. However, this is not true. People shouldn't judge a book by its cover as well as a person. We have failed to perceive the intrinsic intelligence of humans since they have being concealed by the appearances of a person. In the film, high school girls spend their breaks between classes to put on make ups and many of them has been annoyed by the judgment basing on the appearances. 

The another issue that has been mentioned in the documentary is that women has 51% of proportions of the entire US population, however, females only got 17% in the house of representation and senates. the Media has been manipulated by males and girls have to collaborate and get rid of the ideas spread by the medias in order to become more power and getting equal clouts.

The film challenges the  disparaging portrayals of women limited by medias. Although media, the most persuasive power nowadays, is expressing the ideas of girls being sexually attracting, boys being powerful, and violent scenes, the multi-media is still the effective instruments to make our world better place.