Art stuffDecember 7, 2006 8:14 pm
Art stuffDecember 26, 2005 4:27 pm
Last Saturday, for the first time, laoshi and I had a really good talk about art… mainly about surrealism and comparing certain works of art. He said that my sketchings bore the marks of a surrealist influence. (eh… hmmm…) And suggested that if I progressed all the way to oil painting (haha… going to take years…) then I should go towards surrealism.
Anyway, he decided to show me this picture, and highlighted the minute details of the ‘Praying Hands’. It’s so very life-like that one could even use it to study the anatomy of veins on a hand.
He also told me the story behind these pair of hands…
Albrecht Dürer was from a poor German family with 18 children. 18! Imagine that. He and one of his brothers had always wanted to learn art, but the family could not afford to send them to the Academy at Nuremberg. Between them, they decided that one would work at the coalmines to put the other through four years at the academy. After four years, the one would sell his artwork or even work in the coalmines to pay for the other’s art education. A coin was tossed, and Albrecht Dürer went off to Nuremberg.
Four years later, Albrecht had become a sensation at the Academy, his works bringing in more money than those of his professors. He returned to make good the promise to his brother. Sadly, this was his brother’s gut-wrenching reply, “No, brother. I cannot go to Nuremberg. It is too late for me. Look … look what four years in the mines have done to my hands! The bones in every finger have been smashed at least once, and lately I have been suffering from arthritis so badly in my right hand that I cannot even hold a glass to return your toast, much less make delicate lines on parchment or canvas with a pen or a brush. No, brother … for me it is too late.”
In order to pay homage to his brother’s sacrifice, Albrecht painstakingly drew his brother’s abused hands, with palms together and thin fingers stretched skyward.
This highlighted to me the importance of being familiar with art history (and not just art history but all kinds of topics, especially philosophy, religion and culture) in order to be able to produce a good work of art.
Art stuffDecember 25, 2005 1:12 pm
The original - Jewish Synagogue @ Dohany Útca
My work… it took me 11 hours!
Who can tell me what the hebrew words say? i checked out a few copies of the hebrew alphabet but somehow, there are still a few symbols i can’t place…
Art stuffNovember 13, 2005 8:14 pm
la terre vue du ciel - yann arthus bertrand
La Terre Vue Du Ciel / Earth From Above / La Tierra Vista Del Cielo is absolutely heavenly! heh… the pictures are taken from ‘heaven’, literally… from a helicopter… the exhibition is now ongoing along orchard… it’s along the pathway right outside wheellock place, stretching all the way thru to toys ‘r’ us and beyond. do catch it!
or else if you wish to view the pictures and more from the comforts of your home, chk out the site -> http://www.yannarthusbertrand.com. only you don’t get all the grandeur looking at them thru your pint sized screen.
i made some collages from my favourite images!
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Art stuffOctober 29, 2005 6:34 pm
first scenery art class - netherlands
lalala… good mood today! woohoo!
but scenery drawing is really tough manz… and next wk, laoshi wants me to bring tougher pics… he’s chosen two from my collection liao.
this is the original:
and this is my product, after a painstaking 4 hours (haha actually 4 hrs quite fast…)
sorry that the tones look like two halves, tt’s cuz my scanner only scans A4 size… and somehow, the two halves ended up with different tones… and yea.. i’m too lazy to photo-edit so that the colours are more similar on both halves…
