Favorite of PBS

This is a contemporary artwork named "Born" made by Kiki Smith in 2002. I like this artwork because it seems like the artist wants to tell us a story about it. The impression for me is about the relationship between animals and human beings. I think maybe the artist is talking about we should protect our environment and animals. The woman is born of a deer, and her feet are still connecting to the deer. It looks ridiculous, but if we think a little deeper, we may get an idea about how important animal to us. We are living in the same planet, and they are our friends. However, the artist said that the artwork just came up into her head and she really didn’t know what it was. Anyway, that’s just the saying from the artist. When we are looking at an artwork, the stories come up by ourselves are the most important. Whatever meaning the artist created for it, this piece of artwork made me think.

Refletion of MCA

As what I wrote about in the diary 5, the trip of the Museum of Contemporary Art was so great. Besides the installation made by Sarah Sze, the artworks from Jenny Holzer are also impressing. Her talent of art makes her artworks so fantastic. The words showed on the screen and the texture make people think deeper and deeper and try to find out the original meanings. She used contemporary technique and make ordinary things become creative. The other artworks that we saw in the museum were made of what we often saw in dairy life, but only the artists have those ideas to create the visual artworks.

diary 5

Today we went to the Museum of Contemporary Art. It was a great field trip because I have seen so many artworks there. I like the art work made by Sarah Sze. It is a huge installation. It consis of many lines and looks like a net. Lights comes from the corner, that should be the radioactive source of the the artwork. Also, it looks like the explosion of the universe many years ago. Many things like buildings and creatures are flying to space.

diary 4

Today I thought of artworks and I found that there was a piece called body art. It was amazing not only because there were beautiful paintings painted on human bodies, but also the paintings were mixed into the surface of the model and looked comfortable. In addition, the body painters more concern onto colors. Most of the time, the paintings are colorful and bright. The vivid landscape on the body is popular nowadays.

diary 3

Today I surfed on line, I saw a piece of artwork that really amazing. It looks like consised of many building blocks. A golden man is tearing his chest apart, and many other building blocks are pouring out of his stomach. It is a little bit disgusting and abstract. However, it is quite an art that make me think about it.

Sculpture Park

This Friday we went to the International Sculpture Park in Schaumburg. We saw many sculptures there. I especially like the Vinland. It looks like the Stonehenge that we can see in the textbook. It consists of eighteen pieces of stones. The scultor Jarle Rosseland is a Norwegian artist, Vinland comemorates the discovery of the Americas.