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Last time we visited The National Gallery and there was Degas’s exhibition.

Degas has lots of artworks about dance, and mainly are ballet. In this artwork, Degas painted about some ballet dancers on the theatre. Degas may painted the artwork in impressionism. Light colour for dancers and dark colour for the background, it makes shadow to show the figure and clothing. Because ballet is a slowly movement, Degas used soft brushstrokes and soft colour, I can feel how graceful the ballet dancer is from Degas’ amazing skills. "A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, some fantasy.” Degas is a very capable artist and has superb techniques.

The main expression technique of Chinese landscape painting is the use of lines and brush stroke, artist should embed their emotions into the painting, if only depicted the object actual, Chinese traditional artists reckoned that is a inferior way of painting and cannot achieve the traditional definition of art. Western landscape painting basically always depict the realistic scene, focus on the light and shadow, and rich in the use of strong colours, in order to let viewers can see the scene as real as possible and get personal feeling. The reason of difference is diverse cultural and use of art materials. While, the Western landscape painting focus on stories; it used light and shadow with rich color in order to describe the directly strong personal feeling in the realistic scene to readers.

In conclusions, art is always surroundings in people live and able to improve the better quality of living. Through the external sources it can understand depth on different angles of art in detail with different definitions. On the other hand, every artist has their own definition and emotion in order to show in the artworks. The style, skills technique and background of creative are very difference between the Chinese and Western art. This is a valuable tool for readers to understand different arts, history stories and hidden meaning.

Figure 1 “Xi Shan Xing Lv Tu“ , by Fan Kuan,

Figure 2 “Early Spring” , by Guo Xi

Famous Chinese traditional landscape paintings.

Different from the traditional Chinese landscape painting, Wang Ximeng ‘s artwork is meticulous and exquisite, but not only this art features of North Song Dynasty painter, he is bold in colour. To seek changes from monotonous blue-green, he lay stress on the application of colours when painted and made the clearly structured. The reason why it colour looks like a gem, is the artist contrasts with ochre. The artist of this painting was studied at the North Song Dynasty royal painting academy, and taught by emperor of the North Song Dynasty, but he did not limit his perceptions about art and create the personal style. About his understanding of landscape painting, the description of the mountains and rivers are derived from the nature. However, the artist never think landscape painting is a replica of nature, he used his imagination to give the nature of his drawing with extraordinary colours. Also, the beauty of human life are things very close to his heart, his detailed drawing about thing or person is the most different from the other painters. Art comes from life, looking at the artwork, a vastness of North Song Dynasty lay before people, it shows artist’s emotions and definition of the art from panorama to specifics.

At the age of eighteen, artist Wang Ximeng painted a large-scale Chinese landscape painting, the artwork used precious mineral palette, even though it has been in existence for more than 900 years, the brilliant hues of green and blue are still looks spectacular. It is a description of the landscape of the Song Dynasty, looking far from this artwork, the main object of this work is mountains which painted with azurite and a green pigment made of malachite, all objects are interconnected by the traditional Chinese long bridge. With mountains and water flows, village, farmer, and fishing boat, the artist was delineated living things with fine brushworks, detailed, vivid and lively.

The artwork received high reviews from the emperor of the North Song Dynasty:” The whole world can be seen in this painting.（天下事于作之）” (Zhao Ji, 1082-1135, the emperor of North Song Dynasty) The main purpose of this landscape painting is to show the great country to the emperor. To flatter him, the artist only detailed about quiet life and magnificent scenery, even though the country was already in a precarious situation. Reading about the history, the emperor had no statesmanship and was infatuated with art, he gave the painter with priceless materials, but the people were starving and homeless at that time, the country was in years of war and chaos but the landscape in the painting still undisturbed. Art is simple, but to understanding arts can’t just focus on the display of beauty on painting, further to know the artwork’s emotional and back history in depth.

In my mind, art is any artwork was touched me which when I face to it, that feeling is my own definition of art. In addition, I don’t consider to define every artwork as art, art is a way of expressing, not rigidly adhered to the form, but artworks should with personal style and characteristics that can be called art. For instance, colures changing of the sky at the sunrise, this is the art that nature showing, Monet’s ‘Impression Sunrise’ is different from classical landscape painting and traditional technique of drawing, strong personal style and distinctive painting form to describes the hazy scene of impression, this is the art that artist showing. Ordinary pictures about sunrise, those are artworks, but I think that cannot called art.

Also I think to comprehend art, we should back to art itself, perhaps giving to much definition or understanding for art, it may tie people down from the beginning. People have different understanding of art because diverse cultures, view of life and mode of thinking. If it not deviated from the nature, all ways of art understanding are seeming advisable.

Ancient humans polished stone and used to painted on the rock wall, I think in that time, humans have not formed the concept of art, these behaviors most of time just a way to recode their imagination or depicted special human life. Today, people think these simple patterns is the primitive art of humanity, crude but magical. It seems that art may be confined largely by the times, but that isn’t the negation of art, the development of art and artistic form will never stop, because art is a basis attribute of human behavior.

This is a T-shaped painting which is painted at the Han Dynasty, for a noble lady. The very similar thing from all ancient people in the world, they think the soul still in “life” after death, and rich people always spent lots of money and times to built a great grave that they can enjoy the same power and wealth as they did before they died. In the T-shaped painting, we can see so many amazing and creative design, it shows ancient people’s rich imagination. On the top of painting, there is a god sit on sky ,sun and moon around him, in the middle, the noble lady relax and servants are looking after her. Ancient people believe there is a crow on the sun and should have 9 suns on the sky before “King Yi shooting down suns”, toad and rabbit on the moon. The noble lady hope she can enjoy rich life forever, so she spent moneys to made beautiful funerary products, and let painter made the painting to give directions that she can back to the world.

Candom art center visit. These artworks about colour and simple lines and I find there are some numbers on each work, and classmate said that is golden ratio. Sry I didn't got ideas or influence from this visit, it for me is a little bit boring:(

exhibition visit I like these artworks, the artist focus on light and shadow, detail and simple lines/patterns, quite large size and changing colour is wonderful.

exhibition visit......some shoes/clothing design there, beautiful and colourful......

Regent's Canal. Painting group walk around the Regent 's Canal and do some sketch. The landscape of river is amazing, it is a sunny day but very very cold.

Do screen print with classmate. It is my first time use this material and art form, but I am really interest in this, I will try to do more works.To remind myself, I made some notes(in chinese XD).

Kenwood house , built in 1700s. It is an amazing house near Hampstead Heath. We have a break here, get warm and drink hot chocolate. In the house, we can see lots of art collection, such as the famous portrait from Rembrandt.

Hampstead Heath，sketch.

Hampstead Heath Visit nature with painting group！Nice a day and really enjoy the natural beauty of lake and glasses. On the hill, I can see some buliding in small village. The weather is cold and wet, it looks just after the rain， I find some wild mushroom on the tree. Lots of people walk with pet there, We do some sketch and discuss with each other.

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Erté

Romain de Tirtoff known by his alias Erté is probably one of the best known Art Deco designers. Erté became widely recognized for his sophisticated and highly stylized fashion illustrations.

His designs and illustrations are often described as exotic and romantic, extravagant in their appearance.

I like his detail drawing and enchanting lines, really full of charm of women.

Art Deco.

It was influenced by Africa, Egypt, Mexico, India, cubism, futurism, neoclassicism and so many of art style. Art Deco is also generally considered to be a form of early Modernism. Art Deco is a modern decorative art, but also affect architecture and many other area.

Art Deco’s feature is use of the sharkstooth, zebra, zigzag sawtooth pattern, staircase pattern and radial pattern to decorate.

Radial pattern of the sunshine and fountain,

geometry (shapes and lines),

bright contrast colours.

Lucienne Day’ s artworks.

Lucienne Day’s works influenced by comtemporary abstract painters, such as Wassily Kandinsky and Joan Miro. She drew on the English tradition of patterns based on plant forms, and often took motifs from nature.

Her style looks subdued colours, detail, repetitive, realistic and linear.

The last picture by Wassily Kandnsky. These artworks are created different size rectangles and drew patterns in the rectangle but Lucienne Day has her own characterstics, I can find out her artwork easy subdued colours, detailed, uniform and repetitive.

“It is rare for a textile designer to achieve a high public profile. Lucienne Day, whose vibrant printed patterns revitalised British homes during the 1950s, was the exception.”( www.independent.co.uk)

Lucienne Day is an eminent textile designer, I like her style. Subdued colours and detail patterns draw people to her artworks. Her designs show a love of simpicity which is very much her hallmark. I think 1950s Atomic art also influenced her because that era, Lucienne Day reached a peak of creativity. I am interesting to get ideas from her style, make some pleasingly simple patterns in my artworks, this may will be what I want to do.

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