Contemporary Art 2011: Yu talks on Collier Schorr's Kid

Contemporary Art 2011: Yu talks on Collier Schorr's Kid
Title: The Kid (under the topic Body)

Artist: Collier Schorr

Quto from Art21 "Collier Schorr was born in New York City in 1963 and attended the School of the Visual Arts, New York. Best known for her portraits of adolescent men and women, Schorr’s pictures often blend photographic realism with elements of fiction and youthful fantasy."

Medium: Photo Paper

Outline of the Presentation:

Talk about the artist

Major works that associated with The Kid

Talk on The Kid

Discussions

Yang Xiao (Sunny)'s talk on the The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dali

Salvador Dalí ,The Persistence of Memory Oil on canvas, 24 cm × 33 cm (9.5 in × 13 in) ,Location Museum of Modern Art, New York City

The Persistence of Memory is the most famous painting of Dali. Throughout this presentation I will discuss the historical/personal context and the vague meaning of the painting.

Salvador Dali was born in 1904 in a town of Catalonia, Spain and died in 1989.He was a man in a hurry, an artist of tremendous energy and prodigious output. His works includes painting, film, sculpture, and photography, in collaboration with a range of artists in a variety of media. He experiences the Cubism, Dada and Surrealism, and was best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealist work. The persistence of memory is one of them and completed in 1931. Dali has recorded his process of this painting a few years later.

     It was on an evening when I felt tired, and had a slight head-ache, which is extremely rare with me. We were to go to a moving picture with some friends, and at the last moment I decided not to go. Gala would go with them, and I would stay home and go to bed early. We had topped off our meal with a very strong camembert, and after everyone had gone I remained for a long time seated at the table meditating on the philosophic problems of the “super-soft” which the cheese presented to my mind. I got up and went into mu studio, where I lit the light in order to cast a final glance, as is my habit, at the picture I was in the midst of painting. This picture represented a landscape near port Lligat, whose rocks were lighted by a transparent and melancholy twilight; in the foreground an olive tree with its branches cut, and without leaves. I knew that the atmosphere which I had succeeded in creating with this landscape was to serve as a setting for some idea, for some surprising image, but I did not in the least know what it was going to be, I was about to turn out the light, when instantaneously I “saw” the solution, I saw two soft matches, one of them hanging lamentably on the branch of the olive tree, in spite of the fact that my head-ache had increased to the point of becoming very from the theatre two hours later the picture which was to be one of my most famous, was completed.[1]

He said it was on an evening when he felt tired, and had a slight head-ache. Gala and his friends went out and he planned to go to bed early. After everyone had gone Dali remained for a long time seated at the table meditating on the philosophic problems of the “super-soft” which the cheese presented to his mind. Then he got up and went into his studio. There was a landscape in the midst of painting. Its rocks were lighted by a transparent and melancholy twilight; in the foreground an olive tree with its branches cut, and without leaves. He said, “I knew that the atmosphere which I had succeeded in creating with this landscape was to serve as a setting for some idea, for some surprising image, but I did not in the least know what it was going to be.” He was about to turn out the light, when instantaneously ‘saw’ the solution, he saw two soft watches, one of them hanging lamentably on the branch of the olive tree. He began to finish his work and two hours later the picture which was to be one of his most famous, was completed.

People who have seen this painting will never forget it. Because the painting is so strong, and there is something wrong here. This is the main character of surrealism. It is an irrational dreamlike image and also super-reality. It is a landscape about nature, but who put the desk here? Why all the clocks are melting? What is the animal on the ground? How can the branch grow out of the desk? In order to show the different from a painting, he hide all the brush to make it similar to a photograph. In order to different from a photograph, Dali putted things in the wrong place and changed some character of the objects to create an uncanny atmosphere. All the things are realist but all the things are imaged. In this way, he created a new world.

His process of this painting is also a typical surrealism way. He showed his ideas on the painting without conscious control, and the full significance of the work he was only to perceive later. Just think about his process of the persistence of memory, there is no draft or the so called execution of the whole painting. The way he created the whole painting is more similar to novels of steam-of-consciousness. When he saw a clock, he painted a clock. When he saw some ants, he painted some ants. As there is no plan before his painting, he also used these poetic techniques of free association to reduce conscious control of irrational mind. In this way, he is the same with Miro’s auto writing even he used the realist image.

The meaning of this painting is hard to say, there is something special but what is that? Some professors try to find something in the documents from Dali. During this time Dali had get rid of his parents and moved to a small fisherman’s cabin in a nearby bay at Port Lligat. Life is not easy for him. Luckily he has been accepted by other surrealists and his Muse Gala. He said, “Instead of hardening me, as life had planned, Gala protect me from hardening as life had planned, so he could continued to grow old in the soft and in the super-soft. And the day I decided to paint watches, I painted them soft. ”So they think soft and hard is not only a sense of touching, but also his feel of life and himself.  

Other researches try to answer the question from Dali’s painting. Dali has some unique elements and he likes to use them in his painting again and again. They think these are Dali’s codes and try to unravel these Dali’s code to understand the meaning of the whole painting. For example, the uncertain animal in the desert is similar to some lady’s silhouette in Dali’s early painting. But the problem is still unanswered, what do those codes mean?

Class question:

What is the meaning of a painting? Is it neccsary to the audience to get what an artist want to say in a painting?

[1] Salvador Dali, the secret life of SSalvador Dali, p.317

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Water, Kwong Ka Ming Individual presentation: Jackson Pollock 'White Light'

Jackson Pollock: White Light 

1954

Oil, enamel, and aluminum paint on canvas,

 48 1/4 in x 38 1/4 in (122.4 x 96.9 cm).

Museum of Modern Art, New York  (The Sidney and Harriet Janis Collection) 

The famous America artist I want to introduce is Jackson Pollock and his painting White Light. For the presentation, first, I will talk about the basic information of the Jackson Pollock. Secondly, I will analysis his Artworks. Then, the Artworks’ elements and the key quote. Finally, the question I am interested.

Jackson Pollock is born in January 28, 1912 in USA. He is an important influential American painter and plays a major role in the abstract expressionist movement. He is famous at Action Painting with his unique Drip and splash style. What is meaning of his painting always had a great discussion among people. During his lifetime, Pollock enjoyed considerable fame and notoriety, and he was regarded as a mostly reclusive artist. He had a volatile personality, and struggled with alcoholism for most of his life. Pollock died at the age of 44 in an alcohol-related car accident. So poor, he was very young and talented.

For development of his painting style. In 1940s, he starts experimenting in different painting technique.  At the same time, he also experimenting with sand and broken glass to traditional art materials in his painting. His painting style influenced from Mexican realist and the surrealist. The significant characteristic is he frustrates his wild powerful stroke. His painting become very famous and his Career peak is 1950s. His painting is still making influence today.

Jackson Pollock is an Action painter of abstract expressionism. So, what is abstract expressionism? It was a term used in 1929 by Alfred Barr,Jr. to refer to the nonfigurative and nonrepresentational painting of Kandinsky. From Kandinsky’s painting “Composition VII” painted in 1913, we can see the characteristic of nonfigurative and nonrepresentational theme. He also said it is the most complex piece he ever painted. Also, ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM is generally used to categorize the New York school of painter and the Artists from many different parts of America and Europe. And it is the effect of the unconscious on creativity, from expressionism; they inherited an affinity for the expressive qualities of paint. We can see the significant aspect in the painting is Brushstrokes.

Now, I am going to introduce one of his paintings. It is White Light, it was painted in 1954, it is Oil, enamel, and aluminum paint on canvas, and its size is 122.4 x 96.9 cm.

Now, it is in Museum of Modern Art, New York. What is mean of this painting? To compare to his previous abstract painting, like number 31, White Light may be is just a way of expresses Jackson Pollock’s frustration, hope, optimism and excitement. White light is coming from a lot of black to the white horizon. The color black only occupies a small proportion, but the white and different bright colors are in a greater proportion. With the colorful mood, this painting may express great optimism and excitement. His signature painting style and splash and drip technique can be identifying clearly in this painting.

One of the big difference of this painting is, it wasn’t painted on the floor by studio like his previous abstract painting on the large canvases. Jackson Pollock paint at a small canvases; it is senses of dynamic movement condense into a smaller space. So it is not well known as his other famous paintings. However is still got a strong response from viewers.

On the other hand, White Light eliminates all reference to recognizable objects. Lines of different widths and textures swirl through the picture space and are slashed diagonally at various points. There is an underlying chromatic organization of yellows and oranges blending with, and crisscrossed by, thick blacks and whites. The white as indicated by the title, is what predominates, and the intensity of Pollock’s light is everywhere present. His habit of trimming his finished canvases enhances their dynamic quality, for the lines appear to move rhythmically in and out of the picture plane, unbound by either an edge or a frame, these also makes some tense within the lines and the whole picture. These also make me feel a bit tense with the line and the composition.

In fact Jackson Pollock did paint a lot of this kind of painting. We can see them in this slide, one of the most famous abstract painting is, ‘Number 31’, in 1950, medium is oil and enamel on canvas. Now, it is in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. It is very large in size, which is 269.5 x 530.8 cm.

From His artwork, we can see that is also the performance of form of art. A good abstract painting should be including the combination of both order and variety. They are very important aspects in art. With order, we would not be confused, we can have clearer vision, and with variety we would not be bored. One of the important elements of order was unity, it can be achieve by compositional balance of objects within the painting itself. Order can remain the relationship between visual elements. We can see the unity of line and color and the unique order in Jackson Pollock’s painting. Also, it can create the effect of Balance, contrast, emphasis and rhythm in the painting.  All these can hold our attention within the frame. So Jackson Pollock’s painting is always attractive and catch audience’s eye.

Variety is the emotional elements of the painting and it can arouse our emotions.  Through Jackson Pollock’s paintings, the rhythm of the line, mass, space, colour can be observed as the unique characteristic of his painting and they are the emotional elements with variety. Line can characterize objects in a painting and communicates the artist’s feelings to audience. Mass is the way of volume of object are communicated in the painting, it need our imagination. Space is proportion of the painting, it related to the representation of the size of the object on the canvas. Colour can direct our emotion, that why we can easily speak feeling of colour of it in terms of emotional words such as bright, dull, happy. As we can see “White Light” use a lot of different bright colour such as red, orange, yellow, blue ect, through this colorful painting we may feel a bit hope and optimistic, especially compare to his pervious work ‘Number 31’. With these entire element that Jackson Pollock present, we can easy tell our feeling and get the paintings meaning, so that we can understand them easily.

Jackson Pollock developed his characteristic methods of applying paint and his significant aspect, brushstrokes. He dripped, splattered, sprayed, rolled and threw paint on their canvases, with the result that the final image reflects his activity in the creative process. These form of art provide an insight into the nature of visual art. For communication of emotion, through this art form, Jackson Pollock’s deep emotions are intentionally communicated to the viewer. They also build the connection with other forms of art. But from his panting, it do not show Content or Subject matter.

Jackson Pollock produced a lot of great abstract painting. However, Jackson Pollock ’s painting always misunderstood by critics, they said him was just playing crazy. And they called his work a joke and nicked named him “JACK THE DRIPPER” For the people who support him, such as feminist, they believed that his action painting is depicting a male fantasy on the symbolic by the action of creating. The most important supporter is his wife Lee Krasner.

In1941, Jackson Pollock live with his brother in a tiny apartment in New York City, he exhibiting an occasional painting in-group shows. That's when he meets artist Lee Krasner, who puts her career on hold to be his companion, lover, champion, wife, and, in essence, caretaker. To get him away from booze, insecurity, and the stress of city life, they move to the Hamptons where nature and sobriety help Pollock achieve a breakthrough in style. In 1945, he married the artist Lee Krasner, who became an important influence on his career and on his legacy.

I found there had a application of the painting White Light. It is Free Jazz music Album that used White Light as the cover of original CD package. I think it is very interesting and creative when other media incorporated with art, painting such as Jackson Pollock’s 1954 painting The White Light.

In Jackson Pollock life, he had a lot of his own art exhibition. In December 1956, he was given a memorial retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City, and a larger more comprehensive exhibition there in 1967. More recently, in 1998 and 1999, his work was honored with large-scale retrospective exhibitions at MoMA and at The Tate in London. This year (2011) the Abstract Expressionist Art Exhibition in New York also exhibit Jackson Pollock’s abstract painting. His painting is still making influence today.

The key quote is

‘Here was an aspect of painting that still appeared to be unexplored, the sheer handling of paint regardless of any ulterior motive or purpose...He probably remembered stories of Chinese painters who had used such unorthodox methods and also the practice of American Indians who make pictures in the sand for magic purposes. The resulting tangle of lines satisfies two opposing standards of twentieth-century art: the longing for childlike simplicity and spontaneity that evokes the memory of childish scrawls at the time of life before children even start to form images; and at the opposite end, the sophisticated interest in the problems of ‘pure painting.’

Question:

It seems that everyone can draw the abstract drawing. Is it the subject matter is not important in a painting? What are the criteria to be a good abstract drawing and how to evaluate the drawing?

I think whether a painting have a subject matter is not important. It depends on the artist’s purpose of doing his painting. If the artist just wants to express his feeling through painting or just want to present his emotion to the audience, I think subject matter is not so important. But, if the artist has some story and message want to present, I think subject matter is important in that kind of painting.

I think it is very difficult to evaluate whether the abstract drawing is good or bad. Because every abstract drawing is just come from painter’s feeling, they may paint them in a very casual way. And Aesthetics of Art is a very subjective judgment; the perspective of beauty is difference for people to people. Aesthetic of the artwork need to evaluate through a very detail analysis. Different abstract work of art communicates different things in different ways. It is very difficult to judge whether the abstract drawing is good or bad. I think there are need to have strict criteria to evaluate the drawing.  But when we looking at abstract drawing, we can try to appreciate it by focus on the rhythm of the line, mass, space, colour, Order, Unity, variety of line and color and the harmony of the painting.

Why am I interested in this artwork? Because I think Jackson Pollock did a good job in invention of this abstract expression painting. I appreciate his artworks can back to the simplicity, and just use the basic material of painting, paint and the brush with his creativity, then can create this kind of beautiful painting.  We can appreciate the original beautiful elements of a painting, such as paint, colour, line, and brush stroke. Through this abstract expression painting I can feel the emotion that Jackson Pollock want to convey, and I can actually feel how he paint this kind of action painting by expression his feeling through his body movement.  That was very awesome. 

Reference

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson_Pollock

http://moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2010/abexny/

http://www.moma.org/collection/object.php?object_id=79481

http://wn.com/Jackson_Pollock

Laurie Schneider-Adams, Art Across Time, Vol II, 2nd edition 

(Boston: McGraw Hill College, 2002).

E.H.Gombrich, The Story of Art (PHAIDON)

Leja, Referaming Abstract Expressionism

Terence Choi individual presentation: Jackson Pollock 'White Light'

Jackson Pollock is the representative for drip painting and action painting in the Abstract Expressionism. At the beginning of the presentation, by looking through two other paintings by Jackson Pollock, I would like to show the feeling and examples of drip painting. The two paintings shown are Eyes in the Heat and Shimmering Substance (sounds in the Grass Series) respectively, both of the works were painted in the 1946 by Jackson Pollock. The medium for the paintings are oil on canvas.

Abstract Expressionism is an art movement appeared in the 1930’s in the USA. The feature of Abstract Expressionism painting is rebellious. In the 1930’s, during the outbreak of the Second World War, the capital of modern art shifted from French Paris to USA New York. The origin of Abstract Expressionism is from Dadaism, Surrealism and Cubism. Artist in the USA concern and worship a lot on European artist in the previous three movement of art happened in Europe, so it is significant that Abstract Expressionism is the first became known and influenced European Art. Artist in the USA like Willem de Kooning, Robert Maserwell, Franz Kline and Jackson Pollock represent the era.

The piece of painting White Light by Jackson Pollock was painted in the 1954. The medium is oil, enamel, aluminum and painter’s paint on canvas. The size is 48 ¼ times 38 ¼ inch (122.4 x 96.9cm). The White Light is now in Museum of Modern Art, New York. We call this category of painting Action painting or drip painting.

White Light is a painting produced in era of Abstract Expressionism movement. Jackson Pollock is inspired by Picasso while having his early painting done. Through experience going through Dadaism, Surrealist movement, Jackson Pollock invented the style of abstract painting which concerns the engagement of whole body in the act of painting. Jackson Pollock moved away from convention and produce image with rebellious and nihilistic feeling. The White Light is blasted art making beyong any prior boundary.

The details of the painting White Light in Jackson Pollock head is about drip painting. Drip painting is inspired by Navajo sand painting. It depicted the artist’s feeling and emotion without any restriction to theme. There is not a specific topic to be identified. When Jackson Pollock was making the painting, he concerned the shape and line. Also, he used some new medium and tools to create the special effect of chaotic and shades. Unlike some classical artist, Jackson Pollock did not use oil or water color as his main medium. Instead, he made use of housepainter’s paint, enamel and aluminum. In terms of tools, instead of brush and easel, Jackson Pollock used wood stick, floor brush and knife as his tool. With these tool and color, he extended the texture of the painting further to express different feeling. Jackson Pollock mixed sand, grass and wood into the color paint to make relief and raw texture.

Get in appreciating White Light, there are several point that we have to concern about. The line is chaotic but directing and pointing to the middle. While talking about line, we have to concern the color of the lines. In the painting, there are lines in different colors. The lines cross each other with the shapes behind form a very chaotic view. And this represents the process of making the painting, expressing the emotion and feeling of Jackson Pollock. When we try to pay attention to the line, we may find it difficult to concentrate to one point or find it hard to stop at a point. We will just follow the line and go over and over around the painting. White Light give us the feeling of frenetic wildness, where we can find experience of raw energy of Pollock conveyed.

Jackson Pollock have said that “When I am painting I have a general notion as to what I am about. I can control the flow of paint; there is no accident. Painting is no problem; the problem is what to do when you're not painting.” Jackson Pollock 1954, My Paintings. The control of paint is the expression of Pollock himself as a painter to paint an experience of how he coping with the nature.

The interesting point about White Light is the line and color pattern. The widely use of tools and the applicant of paint in different corner of the painting. The color pattern of in different side point towards the same side which lines and shape could not analyze by iconography, bring me lots of fun and room to imagine. Unlike some modern art movement, the movement of abstract expressionism represented the shift of art centre from Europe to USA. Abstract Expressionism inspired very deeply to different categories of art which represent the feeling of artist himself through line and shape.

Looking at White Light is a joyful time. It brings me into the world of Jackson Pollock and let me feel this artist paint which he is concentrating and drip paints onto his canvas. White Light is for us to understand and appreciate the process of working it out. As long as there are expressive artist, who would like to express emotion freely, applying abstract expressionism is the best way.

Mark Rothko, Number 15 in abstract expressionism.

The feature of Color field:

 Color field is a style of abstract painting. It commonly in 1940s and 1950s. Contract to action painting, color field Applied paint in a more traditional way. It applied Color to a flat surface.  And it is Influenced by Matisse’s broad planes of color. Color field Use simple pictorial imagery designed to create emotional impact, it emphasis on inner feeling, spiritual, Sublime and meditative instead of the beautiful. and it also related to the highly coloured minimalism.

 The Basis information of the work:

Number 15 is painted by Mark Rothko in 1957. it is oil on canvas. And it has 2.62x2.96m

The details of Number15 :

 We can see that there are Two black-green Rectangles on top of a Blue background. Two rectangles are in different size, one smaller on the top, and another one bigger on the bottom. The above two black rectangles are surround by the blue background, the rectangle is black-green and the background is intense vibrant blue, it make us feel that the shimmering blue is ringed the overall impression of darkness. Also The edges is unclear, you can see that it is blurred. It Softens the contrast between two colors.

How the work fits into Colour field:

 firstly, Colour field applied Color to a flat surface, and this work applied the color,  blue and black-green on canvas.Moreover, Colour field emphasis the imagery is typically calm and inwardly directed, meditative and spiritual, and this work is Not use some symbolic image  it just use the rectangles and color to create emotional impact. Lastly, Colour field is related to highly coloured minimalism, and this work only use two color to create two simple form, the rectangles.

why this work interests me and my own opinion:

I like this work is because mark Rothko use the simple expression to present the complex thought, a simple expression gives us a big capacity to imagine. The color of number 15 make us feel the darkness, but I think it not just darkness, because the  shimmering blue ringed the back rectangles, it just like the light surround the darkness, it make me feel it is still very safe. like inside everyone hart, we will have the dark side , sometime we will feel depressed,  but if you step forwards, you will find the light, life is still has hope. 

key quote

To paint a small picture is to place yourself outside your experience, to look upon an experience as a stereopticon view or with a reducing glass. However you paint the larger picture, you are in it. It isn’t something you command!

My question:

  Nowadays we can easily see some artworks on the internet, it brings us a lot of convenience that we can no need to visit the gallery, however, would you think that it also has some bad influences to us ?

T&S group Project

the original painting

Title: Three Musicians(Musiciens aux masques)

Artist: Pablo Picasso
Time: Summer 1921
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimension: 200.7 x 222.9 cm
Location: The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Artist: Stella and Terence
Time: Spring2011
Medium: Collage
Dimension: 25cm x 25cm
Location: Hostel D 705

‘Hertage’ is inspired by Picasso’s work Three Musicians, as a collage work patched by three main characters and bear on their body heritage.

The name ‘hertage’ is the combination of two words; they are ‘heritage’ and ‘collage’. The work basically originated and inspired by the experiences of listening to music and walking through heritage. Hong Kong is a special place with consistence of western and eastern culture. And this culture has already deeply dug into our minds. When listening to music while walking through heritages in Wan Chai and Central, we feel very satisfy with the mood and atmosphere. As a result, we borrowed the ideas of Picasso and his friends playing music and creating poem to express our feeling.

Hong Kong as a historic city, has a unique culture of mixing of western and eastern elements. It is a city where the west meets the east and and finaly reach a harmonious status. In the process of the city development, including the culture integration, much significant architecture were left. They are known as the heritages of Hong Kong. Heritage serves to shape values, ground aspirations and inspire creativity and a sense of belonging within a community. It contributes to social stability, civic pride and a richer quality of life. “Architectural significance” is currently the only test under the law in Hong Kong when considering legal protection for our built environment, no matter what unique, historical, social or cultural value may be attached to a particular property, group of properties or even a neighborhood. This means that many of our interesting buildings and neighborhoods – the Wanchai Market/Blue House area, the old terraces in Western, as examples – may simply disappear merely because there is no policy or process to facilitate their protection.

But till now, many people still think that heritage conservation is a government issue. It is government that who should take the responsibility to make decisions and take action. But the fact is that heritage conservation is an issue related to every citizen closely. The heritages are just around us but we seem to pay little attention to them. Actually, we have the responsibility and power to make changes. Heritage conservation should be under public control with the public being involved in the process of their identification and stewardship. It can only be realized through more education and awareness. What we concern is not only the tangible things, but also the intangible histories, the social and economical changes of our city. This intangible value, the collective social memory, is not always appreciated until it comes under threat and there is a need to develop a mechanism to identify places, sites and settings to which such value is attached. What we should do is take preventive measures prior to any threats. Only when these heritages are conserved well can we have strong belongings to our city.

The heritages that have been chosen by us in this artwork were Queen’s pier, blue house and old terrace in Wan Chai, King Yin Lei, and the pagoda in Ping Shan Heritage Trail. Among which, the Queen’s Pier have already been demolished. The fragments of the picture of Queen’s Pier were pasted on the man on the right hand side of the Three Musicians, which indicates that Queen’s pier was no longer exits. The blue house and old terrace in Wan Chai were put on the man on the left hand side, which means that they are now under fair conservation but still is not totally invulnerable. On the other hand, King Yin Lei was thought to be the best conserved among all, since the government have set up a reconstruction scheme to activate it.

Between our work and Picasso’s Three Musician, there are many similar points to share when talking about ‘hertage’. We have good faith in Cubism like Picasso. Through flat surface, heritages in three dimensional effect in the photo make everybody who scan through the work feel impressive. As Picasso’s Three Musician, we make use of three characters to represent different stages. The character at the middle place indicates the heritages under best conservation. The character in the left hand side represents some fair heritages conservation project. And lastly, while the character at the right hand side represents the ones who have got worst protection and have suffered from damage or even have been ruined, the shape and all those buildings are in pieces.

On the other hand, we also do share some different point of view from Picasso’s. As many of the heritages are memory in our mind, we did not use full color to cover the body. Instead, we use photos which are cut into pieces to cover the body. That means those are lost and minimized memory. Also, it’s obvious to figure that all foot of all characters are built on the ground with buildings. The position is not a normal body like Picasso’s work. In Hertage, the legs are in different shape and represent the meaning of heritage. The King Yin Lei is chosen to be the best preserved heritage as the government immediately stopped the construction of expensive residential area. The decision made by the government is fast enough to protect collective memory of Hong Kong people.

In concept layer, main differences between Hertage and Three Musician are not huge as Three Musician is the origin of Hertage. And I will explain as follow base on the form, the subject matter, color and mood:

Base on the subject matter, Hertage and Three Musician did not share any similarities. Main character of the work is still three. But base on the clothing, the color tone and the composition of the subject has lots of differences. Hertage did not follow the use of single color to cover up the body. Instead, Hertage had lots of building in different color on the body which makes it attractive and memorable.

Secondly, the form of the work of Three Musician and Hertage had shift from one to another. Three Musicians is a Cubism painting which apply the use of color and shape to make visual effects. Hertage is a work base on the concept and shape or Three Musicians which build tight relation to each other in meaning. However, when the discussion goes to talk about the form, they are two different things. Stick and glue is essential for collage, while painting concern the use of brush and color. The form of Three Musician is oil painting and Hertage is a contemporary collage. As a result, the two work have differences in form.

Mood is an essential factor for art work creation. It is so similar that Hertage and Three Musician depict mood in a usual way. Hertage is a collage which directly depicts the creator’s feeling to an experience in heritage. Three Musician is a painting depict the memory of Picasso with two of his old friend. In Three Musicians, the masked Pierrot palying clarinet and the singing monk holding sheet music are Picasso’s friend, while the one at the center, strumming guitar is Picasso’s stand-in self. The painting is in old Italian comic theater style, called dell’arte. The time of Picasso with his friend and make pore is marvelous then inspire Picasso to make this work. For the case about Hertage, we are inspired by the work as well as the beautiful scenery walking across heritage. The social history, the neighbor relation, the childhood memory of grandma and grandpa, went through my mind.

As time goes by, memories will fade you away. Hertage is inspired by The Three Musicians. I could now imagine. In summer time, Picasso and his friends are in the garden making poem and having wonderful time. They talk about drama, theater and poetry. I wish I could have the same experience. Sitting under blue house sharing with neighbor about current affairs, should be a warm and close community. The subject matter and form of the two works are different, but still, the mood is so similar. Like Chinese Literati painter said: Realistic could not win Shen. We wish that our work could make you feel relax and contribute more to heritage conservation.