Drawing about my working place

What I drew is a big fish tank. Every customer special a child comes to our restaurant would be attacked by this tank, so I consider that it can be the sign of our restaurant. Because those fishes are not like usual size, they are maybe the triple size than you see before. Sometimes, some people they just pass by our restaurant in order to watch those special fishes.

NYC Still Life

I asked lots of my friends about the same question that what kind of things they would relate about New York City. The answers of them were the same that red apple and World Trade Centre. That was why I chose draw down a big red apple and these two tall buildings that they looks like burned in fire.  

Final Project Artist Interview

Final Project: Artist Interview

     The artist, who I interviewed, is a famous Beijing opera actress, and her name is Wu, Qiu. Right now she is working as a cashier in a salon store, but the second job still is a Beijing Opera actress performing for celebrating some big traditional Chinese festivals in New York. As far as we know, Beijing opera is the quintessence of China, and its development of history would be tracked back thousands years in China.

     In the old days, only the Chinese would be interested in watching the Beijing Opera because stories exulting communist China were often featured.

     But lately, more and more Americans have begun to appreciate this art form because of its unique characteristics. Beijing Opera, which is considered a national legacy, provides audiences with a musical, visual as well as cultural treat thanks to its use of gestures and customs.

     Being a Beijing Opera is not an easy thing. As Wu told to me, she attended Dalian Institute of the Arts when she was 7-years-old. In that school, she had received tough and rigorous training for six years, when 14-years-old she became a real Beijing Opera actress who owns the ability to perform in an opening opera stage. In China, there is a saying that every opera actor who performs for one minute needs training 10 years. Though I asked her why she would like to choose being an opera actress, she said that her father used to be a successful Beijing Opera director in Dalian, which is a big city of China, she grew up with her father’s influence and loved opera culture deeply.

     One of the most successful operas Wu played as the first female, which was “Madam White Snake”. And that performance helped her won the gold medal in Rose Award, being considered the most famous opera event of Liaoning Province. Now Wu does not perform as much as before she was in China, Wu said that, though in New York City there are not much people could understand the charm of Beijing Opera, she hopes her amazing performance would own more and more appreciation in New York City.

David Smith

Research Paper about David Smith

David Smith (1906-1965) is widely heralded the greatest American sculptor of the twentieth century. Smith has generally been presented as the three-dimensional counterparty to the Abstract Expressionist painters and/ or as a draftsman in space. "Cubes and Anarchy" places these acknowledged masterpieces in context with his earlier works, revealing Smith as a sculptor whose identification with the working class motivated him to adopt the geometric forms of the constructivist avant-garde from the very first years of his career in the 1930s until his death in 1965.

David Smith cut geometric shapes out of steel plate and welded them into totemic shapes. He made steel boxes, stacked them in lyrical ways, and buffed swirls into their surfaces. He played with gravity, balance, and even words—well, letters. When asked, in 1961, whether the sculptures should in fact be seen as personages, Smith replied: "Even [an artist's] vision has to be made up of the forms and the world that he knows...There is no such thing as the truly abstract; man always has to work from his life." David Sylvester said in 1961. Cubi V Cubi V, 1963. Stainless steel, 96 × 73 × 22 in. (243.8 × 185.4 × 55.9 cm) is one of the twenty-eight Cubi sculptures made by Smith. In Cubi V, the "cubes" are arranged in such a way as to suggest a weightless equilibrium rather than a labored construction. "The Cubis have compositional effects of balance, thrust, turning, even lyricism, all characteristics completely unassociable with the qualities of the basic cube components. It is not only that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts but that the inter- connecting, synergetic aspect of the work means that its authority derives from seeing these elements work together compositionally - indeed sometimes almost magically." from E. A. Carmean. Cubi V clearly falls into the figurative category, the rectangular supporting form and the extended horizontal element suggesting limbs attached to the central cubic "torso".

9/11 Memorial Park

9/11 Memorial Park

The 9/11 Memorial Park is designed by architect Michael Arad, as I know, Arad’s design was selected from a global competition that received more than 5,200 submissions from 63 nations. I consider that most visitors would leave a deep impression on these two reflect pools, because the pools, their cascading waters drown out the surrounding sounds, creating an ideal place to pause and reflect. 9/11 Memorial Park was open on the tenth anniversary, and the 9/11 Memorial is a respectful, emotional complex still very much in-progress.

The reflecting pools, which sit in the exact footprints of the Twin Towers, are the center of the memorial. The pools as are large voids, a visible reminder of the absence of the towers that resonates with the loss that came from the destruction of the World Trade Center. From the information, I learn that the pools are each nearly an acre in size, and they feature the largest man made waterfalls in North America. The moment when I entered the park, I heard the sound of falling water, and the sound gets louder and more prominent as I went deeper into the site. Standing on the edge of a pool, the waterfalls drown out all other sounds, even the clatter from the surrounding construction sites, letting I quietly reflect on my thoughts.

Bronze panels edging the pools are inscribed with the name of every single person who died on September 11, as well as the terror attacks in 1993. Instead of Twin Towers, the 9/11 Memorial Park becomes New York City’s newest landmark.

"Bad" Drawing

    Deformation of the figure

                                                               Non-art resource
                                                              

                                                                     Art resource
                                                                      

                                                                   Fantastic content
                                         
"Bad" Drawing, with four images from a sketchbook that contain four of the following five elements:
a. Deformation of the figure
b. Art resource
c. Non-art resource
d. Fantastic content
e. Irreverent content

"Three Eggs"

This is my first time try my best to paint the image. I painted this image the sun is from the left side shining to right side. At the bottom of these three eges is a small dish.