Macdonalds Street Art

This is very innovative! It is like advertising in the unusual way(but nevertheless creative) way. Even though I don't exactly like the idea of promoting fast food, I feel that we need these bunch of creative people to constantly change our world and surprise us by fusing art into our everyday lives. Art can change the face of the world.

Art makes the world go round. (:

SYF Arts and Crafts Competition (:

SYF ARTS AND CRAFT EXHIBITION

Went to this exhibition with Xin Yu on one fine Friday. (: It was really inspiring to see fellow young artists creating such beautiful works! Haha, after the exhibition, I felt the great need to improve myself as an artist! :O There were too many quality works over there!

I shall post the photographs of my favourite works here. Well, there are many other dazzling works, but these are the ones that I really like! So please enjoy! (:

This was one of the first works that we saw. The image was drawn using fine black pen and each tiny stroke was applied very very carefully! I admire the artist's patience and this is one of my favourite works in the show! (: It is just...too awesome for words.

This is an assemblage of different coloured  stationery. They are grouped according to colour so as to form colours of the rainbow! (: I think that the artist has effectively enhanced the importance of our everyday stationery through this work and I like the different textures created by different pens and pencils!
                                                                       A close-up look!

There is a nice sense of balance in colour and tone in this work and I think that it looks like an underwater cave! (: I like the composition and the colours used. The dark tones of the painting bring out the light source!

This is another piece of work which I like very much! It is an installation, showing a cluttered room. But there is more than what meets the eye. Well, if you take a closer look, you can see various insects(sculpture) on the table and the arrangement of objcts give the "room" a very antique look. Beautiful warm tones here.

                                     It really looks like a scholar/adventurer's table!

A colourful piece of work by our very own Nanyang senior! I admire people who do computer graphics(because I cannot do them ><). The bright colours really contribute to the liveliness of this work!

I love this work! It is an illustration book(I am going crazy over cute illustration books lately) featuring a cute white dog! Although I don't exactly love animals a lot, but this the dog is too cute! XD It shows what the dog does during different times of the day, and the last page shows it getting hugged by its owner(the artist herself) at 5.13pm, which is the time when she arrives home. So sweet ~~

                          Typical everyday scene in the MRT. Very realistic depiction of forms!

I like the concept behind this work! It is like colouring the paper fishes, and giving them life. This work shows that art(represented by the oil paints at the top) can work wonders, and I agree!

PHOTOREALISM!!!! O.O It is so realistic that it looks like a photo!!! How does someone paint like that?!?

 Even such small details such as the water droplets on the drink are captured. I seriously need to brush up on my oil painting skills! >.<

A nice installation. But both Xin Yu and I don't get the message behind it. :/

 PHOTOREALISM AGAIN!!! O.O Everyone who looks at this will think that it is a photo...

 A nice illustration piece which is double sided! It contains black and white drawings on one side and coloured ones on the other! The artist has a cute cartoonish style!

The other coloured side(:

Xin Yu says that the artist's style is similar to Kimberley's, but I think that it looks like the style of a tattoo artist. :/

Cute illustration book again! I really love the graphics! They are so child like and this book proves that simplicity works wonders!

Very realistic work again. Everyone's so talented. O.OWell, it kind of depicts the state that we are in - tired, tired and tired.

I do not get what the work means, but the texture is soooooo rich!!!!! It pops out of a canvas! By closer inspection, I have concluded that the red part is moulded using plaster!

 Nice illustrations!

The Jotter Book work! This work is created using many Jotter books and the artist draws this face on the Jotter books!

 Upon closer inspection, we can see that the face is made up of numbers! So meticulous!! I really admire this artist for his/her patience.

 Upon pressing the button, the Jotter books flip open to reveal their insides and together, they reveal a little girl. This is the most interactive work in the exhibition! But it only got gold... ): Why...

From tumblr

Levitating installation by Cornelia Konrads

Yay for land artists! (: Gravity and nature working together harmoniously (:
Looking at this art calms me down. The beauty of nature...



 

Beautiful portraiture!(: Merging of forms with the face.

 by: Matt Wisniewski

Mark Ryden's only non-morbid painting.

I feel touched by this! (: It is so sweet and cute! This shows that Mark Ryden still has a non-morbid side!

It makes me want to paint a bear in my coursework! (: Bears are fluffy!

Colourful (:

                                                            Metamorphose by PixieCold

(Thank you Pang Xin for introducing me to this work!!! :D )

Annie Leibovitz

I shall dedicate one post to this photographer! (: As an aspiring photographer(ok, I am not that good >.<), I really look up to her as my role model. She is the first photographer that I ever took notice of! I went to her exhibition- A Photographer's Life, 1990–2005. I even bought post cards of her works(but I can't find them now) :(

She is a skilled yet controversial photographer. Some of her works may seem shocking at first! Here are some photos which really striked me when I first saw them in the exhibition!

My all time favourite Nicole Kidman photo! (: Saw this at Art Ateg 2012! I always feel awed at the golden lighting of this photo.

Photo of Queen Elizabeth II. My dad told me that she had angered the queen by asking the queen to take her crown off!(Well, she eventually did anyway)

This made the cover page of the magazine Vanity Fair. It was a controversial photo at that time!

Illustration Artists(:

Went to Kinokuniya and chanced upon a book full of illustrations of modern artists.

                                                                      
                                                                         Yosuke Ueno

Her style resembles the Pop Surrealists' style! But not as morbid as Mark Ryden's(read post on Mark Ryden to get a better idea!). Her subject matters are more innocent-looking, carefree and cheerful. There is still distortion and exaggeration in her works, with arbitary colours. Her colour palette is bright and colourful, adding to the spontaneity of her works!

                                                                           
                                                                            Adolie Day
I think she specialises in computer graphics! (: Common subject matter: girls. The girls look so sweet!

Juri Ueda

The colour appears is diluted, like water colour. However, there is the tinge of innocence and naiveness in her work, with the girls' big eyes and angelic looks. Her works are gentle- both the subject matter and the colours are, which makes the works aesthetically pleasing! The colours are smoothly blended, which adds to the softness of her works. The girls in her works are surrounded by fantasy, which hints at childlike innocence. Her works are subtle and quiet, but they are imaginative. She is my favourite artist in this post! (:

Candy Bird

Another artist who likes to portray girls. I realise that different artists have different styles of portraying girl figures and each portrayal conveys a different feeling!

Ciou

Her style is quite different from the rest of the artists in this post. It is bold and daring, with varying thickness of outline. The contours of the forms are defined sharply by the use of bold lines. It is graffiti style, and forms are cartoonized.