Monthly Archives: 1月 2012
A beautiful exhibition : William Morris–Story Memory Myth
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Outside the exhibition—-photo by yuki |
Today we went to visit a very beautiful and amazing exhibition at Two Temple Place, which will showcase publicly-owned art from UK regional collections, features highlights from the William Morris Gallery collection, based in Walthamstow. Titled ‘William Morris: Story, Memory, Myth’, the show looks at how Morris told stories through pattern and poetry while examining the tales that were most important to him, such as the works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Norse saga, Arthurian legend and Greek myth. Displays include panels of the embroidered frieze ‘The Romaunt of the Rose’, exhibited together with editions of ‘The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer’, elaborately illustrated by Morris and Edward Burne-Jones and printed by Morris’s private press. The theme of the exhibition echoes the late-Victorian interior of Two Temple Place, which is ornately decorated with scenes and characters from literature.
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well as a rule, I bought some beautiful postcard , I love them |
Went to Oxford
Before the Christmas holiday, we went to Oxford to visit two museums for our study project. One is Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford and the other is Oxford University Museum of Natural History. This was my first time to Oxford, so really happy…
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Very nice tutor Adrian |
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a cockroach!! |
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the administrator of Pitt River museum introduce for us |
An amazing exhibition at British Museum
Lasts weeks I went to British Museum with my friends and we visited an exhibition which is named Grayson Perry: The Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman. Every object is very beautiful and in my opinion I really love it.
Perry brings together beautiful pieces including Buddhist votive offerings, Polynesian fetishes, Japanese portable shrines, and intricate embroidery next to his own tapestries, organised into themes of the sacred, “magick”, maps, sexuality and gender, patina and texture.
I like this badges
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More of the badges Perry has chosen to put on show. They date from 1913 to 2001 |
the artworks are so wonderful!
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A detail from one of Perry’s cloths |
Perhaps one of the most impressive works on show is Perry’s Map of Truths and Beliefs, (above) an immense tapestry laden with images of pilgrimages, religious and secular. More interesting still though, is the exhibit Perry has chosen to sit opposite his stitched masterpiece, a souvenir hand towel from Japan, featuring two Hello Kitty characters dressed in traditional pilgrim attire.
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A detail from the tapestry ‘Map of Truths and Beliefs’ |
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A 1990s Mexican figurine from Metepec chosen for inclusion by Perry |
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Perry’s The Rosetta Vase, 2011 |
Finally I brought two postcard, I ‘d like buy it after I visited an exhibition. it’s a fascinating show created by a thoroughly nice chap.
A visit for our group presentation : Miracles & Charms
Because we must to do a group presentation, so we decided to go to Welcome Collection and visited the exhibition: Miracles & Charms.
Infinitas Gracias: Mexican Miracle Paintings is like no exhibition we’ve seen before. It collects together over 100 votive paintings, each showing a desperate situation eased by the intervention of a saint. If, say, you fall off a ladder in Mexico and pray to your saint of choice, you’d be honour-bound upon your recovery to create or commission a votive painting by way of gratitude.
Another exhibition is Charmed LivesThe second half of the exhibition on Miracles and Charms at Wellcome Collection looks at 400 amulets which have been collated by artist Felicity Powell from Henry Wellcome’s collection. Ranging from coins, carved shells, dead animals to elaborate notes, the original collection was started by the folklorist Edward Lovett, which bought the curios from various Londoners, including barrowboys and sailors, before selling them onto Wellcome.
Every people must be like Childhood Museum!!
We drawing and happying inside.
A visit : V&A ‘ Postmodernism:Style& Subversion’ exhibition
Last Oct 21, We went to V&A with our tutor and a group of classmates and visit an exhibition—‘ Postmodernism:Style& Subversion’. That is really good exhibition.The exhibition explores the radical ideas that challenged Modernism; overthrowing purity and simplicity in favour of exuberant colour, bold patterns, artificial looking surfaces, historical quotation, parody and wit and above all, a newfound freedom in design. See over 250 objects across all areas of art and design and revisit a time when style was not just a ‘look’ but became an attitude.
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http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/reviews/postmodernism-style-and-subersion-1970-1990/ |
But there is not allowed to take pictures , so I just make some notes and just do some drawing to record.Below:
I really like Leigh Bowery and his arts.
Bowery is considered one of the more influential figures in the 1980s and 1990s London and New York art and fashion circles influencing a generation of artists and designers. His influence reached through the fashion, club and art worlds to impact, amongst others, Alexander McQueen, Lucian Freud, Vivienne Westwood, Boy George, Antony and the Johnsons, John Galliano, the Scissor Sisters, David LaChapelle, Lady Bunny plus numerous Nu-Rave bands and nightclubs in London and New York which arguably perpetuated his avant garde ideas.(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leigh_Bowery)