Ella's Notebook-Art http://blog.roodo.com/ellacf/archives/cat_64436.html 這是一個簡單的筆記本,記錄生活的學習與走過的道路,讓每一個腳步都留下清楚的軌跡. Dance like nobody's watching; love like you've never been hurt. Sing like nobody's listening; live like it's heaven on earth. - Mark Twain zh-tw Roodo Blog System All Rights Reserved 變色龍 想念這個方格, 抽空再寫個一小篇.
這是許自貴先生的立體作品 - 變色龍. 說不上來. 就是非常喜歡.

這一陣子累壞了, 心情上的與身體上的. 難過的事無法用言語述說, 只想化為許先生的變色龍, 可以掛在牆壁上, 眼睛瞪著大大, 身體壓的低低的, 匍匐著斜眼看人. 歡喜悲傷, 一切隨緣.  ^_^

]]> http://blog.roodo.com/ellacf/archives/1752307.html http://blog.roodo.com/ellacf/archives/1752307.html Art Wed, 14 Jun 2006 01:53:07 +0800 Art Taipei 2006 Art Taipei 2006: www.art-taipei.com 
I enjoyed this visit very much. =)


Patricia Piccinini, Nature's Little Helpers - Surrogate
(for the Northen Hairy Nosed Wombat), 2004, Mixed Media
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(繼續閱讀...) ]]> http://blog.roodo.com/ellacf/archives/1551330.html http://blog.roodo.com/ellacf/archives/1551330.html Art Mon, 08 May 2006 00:01:03 +0800 My favorite painter now in NY Nobody's art work can move me like Munch's paintings do.
He is actually the key reason for the existence of my love of fine art.

Now you can listen to the audio guide to his retrospective exhibition from the website of New York MOMA:  http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/2006/Munch.html
It's an amazingly wonderful museum tour online.
Take a look, you will like it. =)


 Melancholy, Edvard Munch
1891, Oil on canvas, 72 x 98 cm
Photo source: New York MOMA

]]> http://blog.roodo.com/ellacf/archives/1422855.html http://blog.roodo.com/ellacf/archives/1422855.html Art Sun, 16 Apr 2006 13:32:45 +0800 A painting in you and me       我以為  每個人都有屬於自己的一幅畫 

                        那是一方天地  無際的自由
                        屬於心靈深處  最真的聲音

]]> http://blog.roodo.com/ellacf/archives/1241685.html http://blog.roodo.com/ellacf/archives/1241685.html Art Sat, 11 Mar 2006 23:54:47 +0800 White Painting A short summary of 'Rauschenberg and Cage' from the book 'Varieties of Modernism' by Paul Wood, Yale:

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Robert Rauschenberg, born in 1925, is a modern artist generally regarded as the harbinger of a full-blown postmodernist art.

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During 1951-2, he produced a series of completely white canvases, devoid of brushmarks and any other gestural traces of the passage of the artist's hand because they were painted with a roller.

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 http://www.artnet.com/Magazine/reviews/robinson/robinson3-17-2.asp

John Cage, 1912-1992, later put a statement to accompany this work:

'No subject / No image / No taste / No objective / No beauty / No message / No talent / No technique (no why) / No idea / No intention / No art'

For Cage, art should be:
'an affirmation of life–not an attempt to bring order out of chaos nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simply to wake up to the very life we're living'. 'No value judgements are possible because nothing is better than anything else. Art should not be different from life, but an art within life.'

Cage gave Rauschenberg the confidence to believe, as he later put it:'the way I was thinking was not crazy.'
'It is as if, by being so empty, the white painting could be filled with anything.'

What Rauschenberg went on to do is: to refuse to differentiate between things that could and could not be art. As Cage said of it: 'It is a situation involving multiplicity.'

Rauschenberg was conferred having been the first to achieve a 'postmodernist painting' later with his evolved 'combine paintings'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cage
http://www.guggenheim.org/exhibitions/singular_forms/highlights_1a.html

]]> http://blog.roodo.com/ellacf/archives/1232741.html http://blog.roodo.com/ellacf/archives/1232741.html Art Fri, 10 Mar 2006 07:25:14 +0800 the idea of an abstract art 'The collapse of the atom was equated in my soul with the collapse of the whole world...Everything became uncertain, precarious and insubstantial. I would not have been surprised had a stone dissolved into thin air before my eyes and become invisible.'

- Kasimir Malevich, 1878-1935     


White Cross on Gray, Kasmir Malevich, 1921

]]> http://blog.roodo.com/ellacf/archives/1227644.html http://blog.roodo.com/ellacf/archives/1227644.html Art Thu, 09 Mar 2006 09:04:09 +0800 Something to say about Modern Art An interesting read:

Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Modern Art
But Were Afraid To Ask   by D. R. Peak, June 2002

"The trouble with a classicist:
He sees a tree, that's all he sees -- he paints a tree."
                          — Lou Reed, The Trouble With Classicists

So you say you're not a fan of modern art. You think that paint splattered canvasses should be tossed out with the trash, or that abstract is what you do with a sponge to decorate your bathroom walls. Pop Art is what clowns paint on balloons and dada is what you called your father when you were four years old.

If that's you... Actually, the past hundred years or so of all popular culture is beyond your mental grasp and you should seriously consider hiding away in a commune or a cabin deep in the woods, away from civilization, with nothing but prints of Thomas Kinkade's nauseating landscapes to keep you company.

Because modern art is really about modern humanity's struggle to overcome the artistic prisons of the past and you need to know that.

Other things you need to know:

Look both ways before you cross the street.

Don't bother doing what dead men have already done unless you can beat them at their own game.

The egg came first.

* See the whole article here.        

]]> http://blog.roodo.com/ellacf/archives/1216826.html http://blog.roodo.com/ellacf/archives/1216826.html Art Tue, 07 Mar 2006 06:44:58 +0800 So-called Humor. I bought these cards when I visited London. They are so amusing!
I wonder if A-bian could take things like this? 

http://www.b-deck.com
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(繼續閱讀...) ]]> http://blog.roodo.com/ellacf/archives/1193610.html http://blog.roodo.com/ellacf/archives/1193610.html Art Thu, 02 Mar 2006 14:59:55 +0800 Brush from Heaven the lurid glow. the delicate bearing. the psychological weight  
the reason why we can never ignore portrait painting


'Just a Glimpse' by Steve Hanks,
Watercolor, 5x4.25

http://www.eslawrence.com/artist.cfm?page=p&ID=17
http://www.bnr-art.com/Hanks

]]> http://blog.roodo.com/ellacf/archives/1187792.html http://blog.roodo.com/ellacf/archives/1187792.html Art Wed, 01 Mar 2006 08:23:25 +0800 A quick note of words Modernity

– the key difference between modernity and life in the past lay in its ‘ephemeral’, ‘fugitive’ and ‘contingent’ aspects, based on Baudelaire’s descriptions.

– a volcano under our feet, a profound sense of social alienation, living between the cogs of a huge machine, artificial and unidentifiable.


Modernism

– foregrounded the claim for art’s autonomy with respect to the wider modern condition.

– not the result of technical incompetence, but an effect of the pursuit of aesthetic independence, which was itself art’s survival strategy for the modern world.


Post- modernism

– purports to ‘reread’ virtually every imaginable sector of human enquiry from politics to art, history to geography.

– a meltdown of assumptions about social relations, psychic identities, the constitution of knowledge and the relationship of humankind to nature itself.


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Gerhard Richter (b.1932),  Motorboot,  1965

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 ]]> http://blog.roodo.com/ellacf/archives/1160563.html http://blog.roodo.com/ellacf/archives/1160563.html Art Thu, 23 Feb 2006 04:07:47 +0800 Chung-Kuei Somehow I need this right away!!!


Chung-Kuei by artist Chen Shih-ho
photo from Arttime


Chung-Kuei by 
C.Y.F. Classical Puppet Art 

http://www.cyf-bodehi.com.tw/4exhivition/onlyone/jing/catch01.htm
http://www.cyf-bodehi.com.tw/4exhivition/talk/catch.htm  

天有天官將，地有地煞神；雷打不孝子，火燒無良心。吾乃鐘魁是也！



 ]]> http://blog.roodo.com/ellacf/archives/1143627.html http://blog.roodo.com/ellacf/archives/1143627.html Art Sun, 19 Feb 2006 14:31:45 +0800 Hello, there.
See the world  by  Wang Shiu-chih
  http://www.arttime.com.tw/artist/wangsc/index.htm

]]> http://blog.roodo.com/ellacf/archives/1143847.html http://blog.roodo.com/ellacf/archives/1143847.html Art Sun, 19 Feb 2006 14:30:49 +0800 My childhood Hey! Here comes a work displayed at the gallery of Tai Hwa Pottery. No kidding. This is what my early childhood exactly looked like - humble, stupid, and cute! I love it.  ^__^

]]> http://blog.roodo.com/ellacf/archives/1069727.html http://blog.roodo.com/ellacf/archives/1069727.html Art Wed, 01 Feb 2006 01:00:08 +0800 An outsider Here are some photos that I took in the glass gallery of the V&A museum during my visit. I didn't write down who made these artworks. Looking at them, I am just thinking:

What if I've been an outsider from myslef for a long long time?  

(繼續閱讀...) ]]> http://blog.roodo.com/ellacf/archives/1056292.html http://blog.roodo.com/ellacf/archives/1056292.html Art Fri, 27 Jan 2006 23:11:26 +0800 Heaven?
Photo by Yann Arthus-Bertrand 
    one of the best photographers on earth

]]> http://blog.roodo.com/ellacf/archives/1041562.html http://blog.roodo.com/ellacf/archives/1041562.html Art Mon, 23 Jan 2006 23:55:41 +0800 Ron Mueck Ron Mueck's works ignite a very eerie feeling by leading people to watch the human beings between the true and false. For me, it's not a matter of the realism. It's more about the Existentialism. Don't they make you think of Kafka's The Metamorphosis or Camus's The Stranger? Something that we could only sense with our hearts before now can be seen in our eyes. How amazing and extraordinary! Try experience more through seeing these:

Washington Post    James Cohan Gallery   49th Venice Biennial 


Untitled (Boy), 1999, Mixed media, 490 x 490 x 250 cm

]]> http://blog.roodo.com/ellacf/archives/1032059.html http://blog.roodo.com/ellacf/archives/1032059.html Art Sat, 21 Jan 2006 15:34:12 +0800 What happen to you, Sir?
Glenn Brown: Mark E Smith as Pope Innocent X
Oil on wood, 55.6 x 54 cm, 1999

]]> http://blog.roodo.com/ellacf/archives/1023272.html http://blog.roodo.com/ellacf/archives/1023272.html Art Thu, 19 Jan 2006 16:11:56 +0800 Do you wanna free yourself? To Spencer Tunick: You are cool !

]]> http://blog.roodo.com/ellacf/archives/1019047.html http://blog.roodo.com/ellacf/archives/1019047.html Art Wed, 18 Jan 2006 18:01:03 +0800 Matthew Barney I’m now studying Matthew Barney – The Cremaster Cycle and don’t yet understand him very well, even though I have bought his DVD when I was in Paris. Some art critics said it is almost impossible to decode Matthew Barney’s works because he applies too many abstruse art forms and biological languages. However, Matthew’s dashing, flossy, bizarre and headlong individual world which is without any constraints can truly lead me to an unknown mental arena, which is extremely mysterious, another good sample to explain how contemporary art is more like an adventure than a visual art. Good to explore!

*http://www.guggenheim.org/exhibitions/past_exhibitions/barney/

*http://www.cremasterfanatic.com/index.html

]]> http://blog.roodo.com/ellacf/archives/1018706.html http://blog.roodo.com/ellacf/archives/1018706.html Art Wed, 18 Jan 2006 16:45:31 +0800 The honors belong to people who can face thier own history Jewish Museum in Berlin - designed by architect Daniel Libeskind


http://www.gallagherstravels.com/international_places/Germany/story005/


http://www.rockwool.dk/sw58010.asp

]]> http://blog.roodo.com/ellacf/archives/1015315.html http://blog.roodo.com/ellacf/archives/1015315.html Art Tue, 17 Jan 2006 21:04:11 +0800 Simple is the best
Free Money by Tom Otterness

]]> http://blog.roodo.com/ellacf/archives/1014562.html http://blog.roodo.com/ellacf/archives/1014562.html Art Tue, 17 Jan 2006 18:00:55 +0800 Roaming around Christopher Cheung's works are now hung in our gallery.

An art critic about Cheung's works by Day-hsi Chin in 1994 is quite refined and touching:

A TELLING TALE OF A MAN BORN INTO THE WRONG EXISTENCE

I have a recurring dream: I am aboard a train, but only as it starts to move do I realize that it is going in the opposite direction of my intended destination.

In that dream state, I did not have time to feel the tragedy of the situation nor to examine the reasons and experience remorse. All I felt was a sense of utter loss, and the fear of inevitably heading towards a boundless, indescribable terror which lurks in the vast darkness.

First and foremost, this terror is strange and eerie. If I was the one who decided on my destination, and I who decided on the train to board, if these two contradictory and self-defeating choices originated from me, then the latter choice would have betrayed the former. This would be tragic indeed, It would also be a source of terror, but confined to one level within human proportions which would make it at least tolerable.

]]> http://blog.roodo.com/ellacf/archives/905014.html http://blog.roodo.com/ellacf/archives/905014.html Art Sat, 24 Dec 2005 00:39:58 +0800 Round Sky & Square Ground ‘Round Sky & Square Ground’ is a tableware collection designed by Chen Jun-Liang. He just won the ‘Design for Asia Award 2004 (DFA)’ from Hong Kong Design Center. I admire his innovative ideas that break the concept of bases for traditional pottery. He turned ‘round’ to ‘square’. A simple idea made a design outdrawing. Now even the president caters his honored guests with Chen’s tableware. Cool.

]]> http://blog.roodo.com/ellacf/archives/888549.html http://blog.roodo.com/ellacf/archives/888549.html Art Tue, 20 Dec 2005 16:59:19 +0800 David LaChapelle This is a photographer who can mix up the components of fashion and art well. See how funky and eye-popping his works are!  http://www.davidlachapelle.com


i-D magazine 


Rize : David LaChapelle's Documentary Film
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8336696/site/newsweek/

Art really heals, in all kinds of circumstance. = )

(繼續閱讀...) ]]> http://blog.roodo.com/ellacf/archives/846636.html http://blog.roodo.com/ellacf/archives/846636.html Art Sat, 10 Dec 2005 17:22:37 +0800 A Big Laugh I just couldn't stop laughing at these funny designs!

http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/2005/safe/

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Infant Spoons soft bite safty spoons.
n.d. Gerber Company Design (USA, est.1928)

BananaBunker. 2000
Paul R. Stremple (American, born 1961) and Margaret Breuker
(American, born 1968) of  Cultured Containers (USA, est 2001)


Guardian Angel Handbag. 2002
Carolien Vlieger (Dutch, born 1975) and Hein van Dam (Dutch, born 1974)

(繼續閱讀...) ]]> http://blog.roodo.com/ellacf/archives/811612.html http://blog.roodo.com/ellacf/archives/811612.html Art Fri, 02 Dec 2005 14:02:01 +0800 'Taiwan Red' in vogue A good article to share:

'Taiwan Red' in vogue 
Local designers and artists have adopted the 'traditional color' to help foster a Taiwanese identity
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2005/12/01/2003282548
By Ho Yi / Dec 01, 2005 / Published on TaipeiTimes

The first Taiwanese designers to show off a collection at Paris fashion week, Chien Yu-feng (簡鈺峰) and Shawn Pan (潘伯勳) went back to their cultural roots in search of inspiration for their ready-to-wear designs. During a trip back home last year, the duo were introduced to a traditional color tone that was often used in folk customs and they then applied it to their Autumn/Winter 2005 collection in Paris.

The "Taiwan Red" series put the pair in the spotlight and gave them the opportunity of becoming the first Asians to design costumes for the Miss France beauty pageant this year.


http://fashionweek.free.fr/PAPF_PE06/Shawnyi/index.html

(繼續閱讀...) ]]> http://blog.roodo.com/ellacf/archives/809954.html http://blog.roodo.com/ellacf/archives/809954.html Art Fri, 02 Dec 2005 06:03:00 +0800 Mr. Lee Yesterday when my boss passed by our desks, he said
‘Guys. Keep going! I believe in our artists. They are really good!’
You know…this truly speaks to our hearts. As time went by, I felt myself more and more fond of this gallery, our two bosses and the artwork. I think I’ve made a good decision to join them. Yes, we have to keep going – move forward.

One of our artists is Lee Ming-Tse. His painting ‘Mr. Lee’ made me laugh loudly. His works usually borrow the language from comic books and reflect a specific Taiwanese life philosophy. Wondering who bought it. I envy the guys who collect his works.


Mr. Lee. 1993. 59x38cm. Acrylic on paper

Many art critics that have reviewed Lee’s work, but I like the comments of J.J. Shih most. This is what he said:

 (繼續閱讀...) ]]> http://blog.roodo.com/ellacf/archives/783270.html http://blog.roodo.com/ellacf/archives/783270.html Art Sat, 26 Nov 2005 13:19:16 +0800 Through the terror I’ve spent a lot of time on an artist named Chieh-Jen Chen 陳界仁 these two days. Even though he is not an artist who I’m supposed to take care of at all. I've been building up a 'VIP Sales Kit' for his works. Anyway…while working for a small company like this, you’d got to be ready for anything that will hit right on your forehead for any reason at anytime. I’m stressed.

   

(繼續閱讀...) ]]> http://blog.roodo.com/ellacf/archives/700287.html http://blog.roodo.com/ellacf/archives/700287.html Art Wed, 09 Nov 2005 16:45:03 +0800 Newman and Abstract Art

I tried to do some summarizing of Chapter 3. Abstract art: Reading Barnett Newman's Eve, but now it's getting tougher. I've entered an area where I am just becoming familiar with.

 

For now I can only mark somethings out for myself to memorize: 

(繼續閱讀...) ]]> http://blog.roodo.com/ellacf/archives/631135.html http://blog.roodo.com/ellacf/archives/631135.html Art Mon, 24 Oct 2005 18:38:52 +0800 Marcel Duchamp If you have ever read art history of the 20th century, you must know Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968). He is commonly thought to be the most inspiring and influential person in moden art. I've spent about 8 hours reading 'Chapter 2: Interpreting the Readymade: Marcel Duchamp's Bottlerack' of the book 'Frameworks for Modern Art' by Yale - 8 hrs for 50 pages, I am truely slow in English reading ><"

(繼續閱讀...) ]]> http://blog.roodo.com/ellacf/archives/601815.html http://blog.roodo.com/ellacf/archives/601815.html Art Mon, 17 Oct 2005 01:29:47 +0800 旅行中的驢子
Paola Pivi 'Untitled' (donkey, detail) 2003

這隻站立在河流中失去動力的汽船上的donkey(驢子)，垂頭喪氣的樣子，看起來頗為失魂，可是才兩歲的他可也已經遊遍世界各地，包括美、英、法以及2003年的威尼斯雙年展了喔！這是一位居住在英國的義大利年輕女藝術家Paola Pivi的作品，目前正參予倫敦Hayward藝廊「寰宇經驗Universal Experience」展出，這場展覽在今年稍早前展出於芝加哥當代藝術館，吸引了大批的群眾參觀及不少媒體的關注；用這隻donkey來討論全球化的旅遊現象，想來也是挺貼切的事，因為畫面中的主角正是出現在他最不可能出現的地方…汽船？河流？Paola Pivi搞笑的功力還真是不賴！

(繼續閱讀...) ]]> http://blog.roodo.com/ellacf/archives/571529.html http://blog.roodo.com/ellacf/archives/571529.html Art Sat, 08 Oct 2005 17:08:29 +0800 資本主義的藝術世界 日本女攝影師Mika Ninagawa的作品，做法很新穎，時尚攝影的手法讓她的作品能在日本許多國際精品門市展出。在這個十倍速時代，求新求變可是不能等待的...(http://www.ninamika.com/home/home.html)

(繼續閱讀...) ]]> http://blog.roodo.com/ellacf/archives/534503.html http://blog.roodo.com/ellacf/archives/534503.html Art Thu, 29 Sep 2005 09:58:20 +0800 司徒強 白天連趕了三個展，最喜歡的還是司徒強的玫瑰，可惜沒有畫冊可以買，這位做人開朗可愛看起來極為豁達的阿伯，作品卻是如此深沉又充滿詩意，將藝術作品比對藝術家本人，我內心的悸動竟莫名地擴散開來．

阿伯應該快飛回美國去了吧，希望他日還能再相逢啊！我心裡不停這樣想著..

司徒強 Keung Szeto, "Fall" - 1997 to 1998
acrylic, lace, fabric burlap on linen, 25 x 34.25 inches (63.5 x 87 cm)

]]> http://blog.roodo.com/ellacf/archives/522966.html http://blog.roodo.com/ellacf/archives/522966.html Art Sun, 25 Sep 2005 11:37:36 +0800 角度高低各不同 波蘭的雕塑藝術家Magdalena Abakanowicz的作品，
充滿了“體積”、“材質”與“空間”等當代藝術範疇中很曼妙的元素，相同的造型以不同的體積呈現，或相同的設計以不同的材質呈現，總能帶來不同的效果；Abakanowbicz的藝術中的巨大與數量累積，讓人對作品不自主的心生崇敬，經過思考後的材質運用則引人遐想；空間是一種玄妙的韻律，美好的空間讓人會忍不住歌唱，充滿壓力的空間則讓人想咆哮或尖叫，Abakanowbicz就像在把玩空間的編曲者，遊走在空間中的人們則像在舞蹈，在藝術品中遊走，一定是件很有趣的事吧！


 NEGEV , 1987, stone , 7 discss , dia. 280 cm, width 60 cm

(繼續閱讀...) ]]> http://blog.roodo.com/ellacf/archives/507178.html http://blog.roodo.com/ellacf/archives/507178.html Art Wed, 21 Sep 2005 15:36:05 +0800 我怎麼看 Franko B ?

'Birth'  by Franko B   http://www.franko-b.com

1960年代後期開始，西方當代藝術界由行動藝術(Performance Art)衍生出以肢體為文本的臨場藝術(Live Art)與人體藝術(Body Art)，到了90年代 Franko B讓這項藝術再次成為藝壇的焦點；最新的一次在2003年倫敦Tate Modern當代博物館演出作品 "I miss you"，Franko B讓自己滴留鮮血來回步行在白色的時裝展台上，直到出血過多暈厥為止，再次引爆人們對這種藝術行動的激烈爭論甚或撻閥．
 
(繼續閱讀...) ]]> http://blog.roodo.com/ellacf/archives/502787.html http://blog.roodo.com/ellacf/archives/502787.html Art Fri, 16 Sep 2005 01:16:17 +0800 Translation
今年八月初在巴黎的巴黎東京館(Palais De Tokyo)看了一個值回票價的展覽'Translation',門票只要ㄧ歐元，趁還記憶猶新趕快做個紀錄。


'Translation'主要展出的是希臘企業家Dakis Joannou的收藏品，集結了來自世界各國的當紅藝術家作品，這場展出被稱之為「視覺的歌劇」，意圖突顯當代特殊社群所擁有的獨立自由精神，在展場入口處就可以嗅到濃厚的屬於都會的狂放不羈的風格。

(繼續閱讀...) ]]> http://blog.roodo.com/ellacf/archives/503258.html http://blog.roodo.com/ellacf/archives/503258.html Art Sat, 10 Sep 2005 22:45:18 +0800 Pretty World
天氣很熱，太陽高高的，熱帶的氣候帶動我血液裡跳動的細胞，來一首Ono Lisa森巴曲風的Pretty World 吧！
今天的我，很陽光。

站在台北捷運圓山站架高的月台上，面向著藍藍的天、綠油油的圓山公園與白白的市立美術館，一架往松山機場的飛機正低空掠過，兩個可能來自俄羅斯的白人情侶在月台上摟抱著，暖暖的風吹過我的面頰，好想來段雞精廣告裡的踢躂舞。
(繼續閱讀...) ]]> http://blog.roodo.com/ellacf/archives/503859.html http://blog.roodo.com/ellacf/archives/503859.html Art Wed, 07 Sep 2005 16:59:56 +0800 當代攝影藝術
Izima Kaoru: Tominaga Ai wears Prada, 2003

拜讀Charlotte Cotton的'The Photograph As Contemporary Art'一書，內容中對欣賞當代攝影作品的的觀點十分精闢而有系統，簡單摘要如下：

當代攝影的七種表現形式:

1. 觀念藝術紀錄攝影

始自1960至1970年代的觀念藝術表現，從發展中的事件擷取出精華的片段，成為藝術表演事件的一項見證與紀錄。如當代藝術之父Marchel Duchamp 著名的"Fountain小便池"，如今原作早已不復存在，僅留下相片可以作為Duchamp 對當代藝術理念的一項見證。另一個例子如英國當代藝術家Gillian Wearing的作品(下圖)，Gillian走向倫敦街頭，要求路上的陌生人將心中的話寫在白板子上，並為他們拍照，以這些人物照對比於傳統的人像攝影，表達透過藝術家預先計畫的策略與理念涉入，能為作品帶來更具深度的影像經驗與體會。

Gillian Wearing:
I have been certified as mildly insane,
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2. 舞臺場景攝影

承襲攝影藝術開始前的18到19世紀比喻式繪畫風格(figurative painting)，創作者以平面作為舞台，預先架構表演內容，伴隨著光線掌控、人物姿勢與道具擺設，使作品呈現出說故事的敘述風格與戲劇效果，對於這類作品的詮釋則仰賴觀賞者自身的心理思維。
Philip-Lorca diCorcia: Eddie Anderson; 21 yrs old; Houston, 1990-92
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3. 無表情攝影

這類作品對影像做全然客觀的檢視，去除任何戲劇化的、主觀的、誇張的元素，透過巨大的面積或高度清晰的畫質，演繹出一種冷調的、脫離的、略顯尖銳的中立美感；試圖跳脫屬於個人的觀點，而投向更為巨大史詩般的自然力量。 這類作品大多屬於地景或建築攝影，在1980年中期至1990年早期間達到高峰，並加速去除了攝影與純藝術之間的界線。
Richard Misrach: Swamp and Pipeline, 1998

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4. 物件攝影

受1960年代中期後極限主義雕塑與地景藝術的影響，以歪斜的姿態擷取日常生活中容易被忽略的物件，探索物體或空間本身的的各種可能性，透過攝影者具主觀與高度敏感的篩選，使當代生活中的靜物寫真成為一種具象徵性的語言符號，成為推動另一種可能的力量的開端。
Wolfgang Tillmans:Still Life in New York, 2001
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5. 親密生活

以日記般的業餘的弔詭手法，將人與人親密互動等熟悉畫面以意外的角度呈現；這類作品通常並沒有使用十分高超的攝影技術，特意突顯一種非藝術領域的生活經驗值，不經意地驅動觀賞者的情緒，使其在自然的狀態下重新檢視自己的私領域或與社會關係的連結等議題。
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6. 歷史餘波攝影

這一類作品含括了大量的紀實與新聞攝影，迴避災難現場當下的殘酷影像，以攝影師思慮過後的影像擷取方式陳述特定歷史、政治、社會或生態事件發生後的狀態，在報紙或雜誌的編輯頁上曝光，不斷挑戰人們對紀錄式影像認知的極限。

Zwelethu Mthethwa: Untitled, 2003

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7. 預存的影像

攝影師意圖探索人們在心中預藏的影像，利用重現歷史上著名或大家所熟悉的影像的手法，讓我們更清楚自己究竟是如何去感知特定的圖像(what we see and how we see)，或是我們如何看待特定的歷史事件或文化。這一類的作品常見於近幾年的廣告攝影中。
Joachim Schmid: Untitled
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當代攝影藝術先驅
William Eggleston (b. 1939)
Stephen Shore (b. 1947)
Bernd & Hilla Becher (b. 1931/1934)
Seydou Keita (1921-2001)
David Goldblatt (b. 1930)
Ralph Eugene Meatyard (1925-72)



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(繼續閱讀...) ]]> http://blog.roodo.com/ellacf/archives/504079.html http://blog.roodo.com/ellacf/archives/504079.html Art Mon, 05 Sep 2005 18:11:29 +0800 Gilbert & George


在某報的紐約時報摘要裡看到了Gilbert&George 的報導，恰巧是我十分喜愛的藝術家。Gilbert&George 是由St. Martin School of Art London 畢業，他們當年的畢業作 The-Singing-Sculpture 以藝術家作為藝術本身為課題，不但使他們一舉成名，也使他們 晉身為 行動藝術(Performance Art) 的先趨，他們的許多作品都是色彩強烈、情緒高張的腥羶議題，另一些作品則是能十分直接而精準地傳達人們對日常生活的某種情緒對應。

(繼續閱讀...) ]]> http://blog.roodo.com/ellacf/archives/416136.html http://blog.roodo.com/ellacf/archives/416136.html Art Mon, 22 Aug 2005 04:08:49 +0800