About Vertical & Horizantal



What is from Wikipedia
In topography, the angle made by two ground lines is measured horizontally, and is called a horizontal angle. Horizontal angles are usually expressed in degrees. A full circle is divided into 360 degrees, abbreviated as 360°.  Let's look at the picture. the line called "x", we can act it as horizontal angle, and line "y" is vertical angle. In fact, there is no absolute vertical or horizontal angle, just because of the angle what you are looking at the moment. So there must be a reference when you look at something.

Reference:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical
                 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizontal


EXAMPLE and My opinion

 

Frontal, involved

This is a direct gaze from Audrey Hepburn. When you see it , you feel like that she is looking at you as well and you are involved at the moment. As a viewer, maybe we are talking, chatting. Anyway, i feel comfortable and relax from Audrey's eye contact.

 

Oblique, detached

Here is a another picture about Audrey Hepburn. But it is an indirect gaze. I feel kind of detachment betweenmy own and represented participant in this picture. I just like a bystander, she is wearing her earing, may be making up in ladies room. And she has no idea who is looking at her.  I think what oblique meaning is as a spectator to view the environment around you.

About Symbolism

  What is from Wikipedia

   A symbol is something such as an object, picture represents something else by association, resemblance, or convention. Any object has their own meaning, and there may be a different object when several objects combined together which has different meaning.  For example, one word is a symbol, and many words get together, it will be a new word that has a new meaning.

    A symbol's meaning may be modified by various factors including popular usage,history, and contextual intent.

Reference:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbol

EXAMPLE and My opinion

Freedom

the Statue of Liberty from USA, as we know, it is a gift from France to America, it hold high the torch just like saying"FREEDOM".

 

Power

This is also really popular all over the world. And it comes from Egypt. In ancient Egypt, Pharoah grasp the high right in the country. So that is why i choose this pic.

 

Man

Toilet sign, in every public rest room, you can find this pic on the door of toilet. May be a little bit different, but they say the same word "Male toilet". 

 

Woman 

As same as "Male toilet", this pic say"Female toilet".

 

Symbolism- My work

Absolute:  the word"p" in the middle means "parking", you know, in many public places there are not lots of spaces for parking, some of them limited people to parkingin carpark, so i get inspiration from this situation. And the sign means "no parking here". I think "absolute" similar with exactly, but not too strong as "exactly".

Infinite/Infinity: this sign looks like the environment protection symbol, yes, that is what i want to say. Just as environment, we should always keep our earth clear to survive generation by generation. That is a heavy work and we could not stop it. I use green because it is a health color, represent fresh and hope. You can see that arrows are directing the others before it, never stop.

Blind: i really have no idea about this one. Finally i think about the letter "b", i'm not sure if it is work. but it is simple and darkness enough, normally there are two holes inside letter "b", and i fill dark in them, so that looks like the letter has no eyes, it could not see anything any more.



Sydney Events

 

Event Snapshot

When:

Between Thursday 18 November and Sunday 19 December from 11.00AM to 17.00PM

Thursday to Sunday, 11 to 5

Where:

point light, 4 / 50 Reservoir Street Surry Hills 2010

Cost:

Free

Website:

http://www.pointlight.com.au/

More Info:

Point Light Gallery Lyndell Undy
Phone: 02 9281 6615
gallery@pointlight.com.au

How to get to this event:

Major bus routes on Elizabeth Street and Central Railway Station

 

 

 

 

White Rabbit Gallery

Location: 30 Balfour St. Chippendale
Opening times : Thursday – Sunday
                             10am – 6pm
Entry fee: $0.
Theme of White Rabbit Gallery:
            Contemporary Chinese art produced after 2000.
History of White Rabbit Gallery:
             In late 1990s,the origins of the Collection  came when Judith Neilson engaged Wang Zhiyuan who  is a Chinese artist then living in Sydney, as her art tutor. He introduced her to the astonishing explosion of creativity taking place in China in the wake of the “Opening Up” that had begun in 1989. Mrs Neilson began buying works, but soon ran out of space to hang them. She and her husband then decided to open a gallery that would make the exciting world of contemporary Chinese art available to all Australians.
             The other hand, only a fraction of the Collection is on show at any time. And the entire contents of the gallery are rehung twice a year.


    It is a cloudy day, it's cool, and my first feeling about the gallery is cool. From outside of the gallery, we can see a modern building just like normal modern style, located may be USA, may be Europe, may be Australia,may be China. But while you go inside, it exactly made in China. Tea house, T-shirt and sculptures, you feel like in China at the moment. It should be highlight here is that those little stuffs on the old cart just in front of  reception, did you see? Really old, really impressive for us 80s generation. They makes me remember my childhood, fullfill with happiness and freedom...

My favourite art:
       Artist: Gade
       He was born in Lhasa, Tibet in 1971, lives and works in Tibet.Gade is half Chinese, but it’s the Tibetan tradition that he embraces, and “Tibet’s anonymous ancient artists” that he reveres. In his quiet way, however, he also rebels against the rigidly religious nature of tradition, and the chokehold it retains on many outsiders’ view of Tibet.
       At the first seeing this painting, it just looks like a pic in temple, as Tibet mysteric style. If you see carefully, there are lots of different kinds of stuffs in the painting, such as mobile phone, noodles, coffee, cup, poker and so on, nothing relevance. Actually i confused with this painting what exactly the artist want to express. Anyway, it still has glamour for me. Buddhism is really mystery and gorgeous. Whatever, it is good to keep believe in heart, right?

My least favourite art:
     Artist:Chen Chunmu
      He born in Quanzhou City, Fujian Province in 1981.Chen Chunmu says he is “soft and sensitive”, and his art shares the same qualities. Both are products of the moist, fertile climate of southern China.
      This serie of pictures is really ........ I know that art has no  criteria, but please let me ignore these picture. Because in picture, the skin of ostrich, or meaning women? is really disgusting.  The other side, artist used Chinese ink to draw the pic. In my opinion, he must be very good at drawing, the reason is that he can draw such vivid character though it is so nauseated, and Chinese ink is not that easy to control.

About Gaze

Comfortable cute boy.
The picture looks like full fill with sunshine. Sun always bring hope to people, and from boy's eyes, there is something like hope and happiness inside. So i feel comfortable when i saw this picture.

My notebook

CONTINUE.........

Proxemics

 

• Intimate distance for embracing, touching or whispering   (30cm)

 

•  Personal distance   for interactions among good friends or family members   (1m)

   

• Social distance   for interactions among acquaintances (3m)

• Public distance   for public speaking (3+ m)

Framing
    - Extreme Close up
    -  Close up