Public Art

The Loop Art Tour is a useful website for us to know what kinds of the art buildings around us, and it gives the detailed information to us through video. I am interested in this website, which gathers all of the public arts. Actually, I have been to these public arts for many times, but I didn’t know more about the information of these art buildings. Through visiting this website, I seems like to visit these kinds of public art building. Meanwhile, this website is like a guide tour to transfer the background information to me. In my opinion, this website is a good helper for us. Moreover, there is a link in each video for us to click to get more
information about this public art building.

Movie: Surviving Picasso

The movie Surviving Picasso directed by James Ivory is about the love experience between Picasso and the girl called Françoise. The background of the movie is happened in Paris during the Nazi occupation of the city. Francoise was forced by her father to be a lawyer. However, she was not interested in being lawyer but being painter. Due to this reason, she had chance to recognize the painter Picasso and then fallen in love with his ability and genuine. This movie it maybe not related with the biography of Picasso, but it reflected parts of his life from it. In this movie, it is more about Francoise personal life than Picasso’s work. In addiction, the movie depicts several of the women who were important in Picasso's life, each of whom seems deeply scarred by their life with Picasso.

After watching this movie, I have more ideas about this artist Picasso. I learn his personal life from Francoise’ love to him. Except that, the most impression to me is the role of Francoise, who was an independent girl to pursuit her dream. Although her love to Picasso was not the only one in Picasso’s life, she still kept her dream in her heart. Actually, I didn’t like that kinds of man as a womanizer. However, he still gave the most impact in the field of art all over the world. Consequently, it made Picasso amazing in many girl’s heart. This movie not only let me know more about Picasso’s personal life, but I also learned how the woman in old days did their best to pursuit their dream.

Reflection of Art Institute Trip

It was my second time to visit AIC. I remembered how I impressed by the marvelous painting at my first time visiting, but what a pity was we didn’t have enough time to enjoy. Therefore, I was eager to visit one more time.

Donald was my partner this time, who was a nice person. Due to the presentation, Donald and I looked around the picture from the front hall to the last one to choose one painting for our presentation. During our visiting, we went together to find some of picture related to the theme of love and peace. Refer to love and peace, we thought about A Sundy on La Grande Jatte, we can see how quietly and happily the people enjoy their time together. During our discussion, we chose the picture refer to the myths and legend for our presentation. We both considered it was a peaceful picture and then reflect to the reality. Although we didn’t get the real meaning from this picture, we knew more about the knowledge about art from others’ presentation. The group of Stacy and Tetyana explained what they saw and thought from the picture detailed to us.

In Edward Munch exhibit, I found that the style of the picture is different with what I saw before. In my opinion, the artist focused on the theme related with our reality life, and reflect our life through his painting.