HOW TO STUDY ARTIST'S WORKS and ...

"When I study the work of any artist, I'm absorbing the source of that art, which is the individual who created it. Every moment of one's entire life influences the process, and it's those life experiences that inform the spirit, the life and breath of the work.

I have an insatiable hunger for images of all kinds and also a desire to analyze the values and the abstract qualities that are the answer to most compositions."
Henry Casselli

So there is way to learn from other artist's work. This does not mean you copy the work, but practise to see Art work in its variety and catch the outstanding point, the special style and undestand them through artist's background, then find for you your own style with your own vision.

I have seen many styles from my friends when I was studying secondary and high school. We tend to copy the style and as a result, it became a trend, then what's your real style actually? How can you break that influence and create your own?

What have you learned from your friends' work?

COFFEE PAINTINGS

Mira Chudasama

Who love coffee maybe feel interesting with this Art Painting. Mira Chudasama really made a fascinating step into Art with her strange paint. The idea came up with the fact that they already knew Chinese use tea powder to pain, then … why not coffee? They tried and found out pigment coffee gives more depth and well express with old-look effect in the painting.

One more interesting fact is that they use 100% pure coffee to make the paint. We can see that the coffee color is much like the color of wood so if you take a look at their gallery, you can see this method works well on those paintings that related to forest, wooden things, still object or animal.

Besides working with Coffee, they also paint pictures with water color, eggs, acrylic, glass and mosaic

So there is anything that art can use to create masterpiece. “Coffee now goes arty too”

References
Art and Painting [link1]; [link2]; [link3]
Coffee Paintings by Mira Chudasama

FREE NEW ZEALAND ART

Participating in Art Activities made me feel interesting these days. They led me not only to a real world to enjoy Art works but a place to experience and meet people.

The concept "free Art", like I thought, is like an exhibition that we can obtain Art, feel Art in a certain place. Keeping that in mind but I always wonder if the artist make an exhibition, so where is the budget and what will they get back from the exhibition? That night, I was over-surprised with what New Zealand Art brought to us.

Participants can get copies of the NZ artists' work, and all are free. If they're just a small cards or A4, then I would highly appreciate. It was more than that; each of them is a huge and well printed poster. Although holder tubes were sold during the party, the attitude is still there, a really free Art night.

Joining the party like this, you have chance to talk to people you don’t know, or meet friends to share thoughts, together comment art work. Moreover, if you know some people that volunteer for the show preparation, you will have more experiences. It’s useful for you in the future to become an artist or a designer.

A friend told me that this Art party was made with the support of ALLB (A Little Bla Bla) and New Zealand Artist Group with the desire to introduce the Artists’ Art Works as well as bring Art to Vietnam, a country that step by step join the Art World. This is much more than I can imagine about the party.

Thank you for bringing this Art night to Vietnam so we can have chance to learn new things and exchange ideas.

BOOK COVER

The first cover book is for Genesis in Poem. There are words made in script type and also some light colour letters behind that we can still see them seperately. The book cover is made in black and white, simple and silent like we read poem, we need space to feel and understand. The GENESIS letter is put on top with biggest size to emphasize the main topic in the book. At the bottom of the page there is the writer's name - in the center to make it easy to see. The style is simple but that's basic and suitable to the taste of the reader.




The cover is designed in the active style with light tone. Symbol and icon is used to make the meaning. Arrangment also made like in a work environment with the arrows like the steps or grids meet together to make a busy view. The pink colour at the right corner can be made to mark the outstanding, look into the image we can see the determination in his face. So the pictures and colours fit well with the concept.




The Racial Discrimination is best presented in grids layout - it make the meaning more powerful and the lines also remind us to the barriers, fences which prevent people getting together.

"Smoke" with "Shelter"

I got a chance to go to Gelerie Quynh on the opening day for Shelter (by Yuk King Tan). I didn't get difficulty to get there because I already know that place. There are so many people coming there as any Art Exhibition was taken place.

I didn't feel clear about the exhibition when receiving the invitation - I wondered if they are paintings, composition works or else. Then I decided to go as a way to enrich my art-seeing ability :)

I was surprised with the paintings I saw there, there is not much paint or colours, just sketches, with the main colour tone: black colour of smoke (this made her works strange and impressive). Some pictures were preprinted on canvas after being added some different materials to make it attractive and unique, and with different ways to express its meaning.

The exhibition was also related with composition - like the picture above - if you see it with such a close distance, you hardly see anything except for dots. But if you stand further, you can realise the text combined by the dots. Impressive, isn't it? That's the pic I took that you can see the text quite clear - if you visit the galerie and enjoy it yourself then you will find it more interesting - I took some seconds to realize actually.

Some pictures there i cannot understand but the thing I got there is, you need to pay attention to the very small details in the pictures. There are some that contain many details, some are simple and I just had a short time to enjoy them, but I have to say that they're beautiful, strange and meaningful. You should go to the galerie and enjoy them if you have time to do so. The exhibition is from November 28th to December 13

Galerie Quynh
23 Ly Tu Trong Street
District 1
Ho Chi Minh City
Vietnam

Opening Hours
Monday-Friday: 10 am - 7 pm
Saturday & Sunday: 10 am - 6 pm

If any of you can go there, tell me what you think about the works.
Nice to receive comments from you.