Expo Chicago (Field trip)

(Photo taken by Songyuan Han at Art Institute of Chicago Fri Sep. 18 2015)

Booth1: Peter Blake Gallery (701) Laguna Beach

-1: The interesting about this EXPO is that there are many artworks makes a co-exist between two dimention and three dimention. Lots of booth use that technique to entice the attention of visitors. Some booth even try to create a confusion between the two and three dimention. The visitor can only detect the phase when they walk to the artwork closely. Works from Peter Blake Gallery is a typical one of them.

-2: The painting is created a 3 dimentional feeling by cumulating brush strokes.

-3: Although the cumulation is with one color, there are some pattern exist. step away from the painting, people can find that circular forms appears to make the whole painting looks like combination of many vortex.

-4: Looking the artwork from both side of it, people can observe that the painting is very thick because of the layers of paints, the artwork therefore is material-consuming, time-consuming and expensive.

-5: After doing research about the sponcer of the booth I find that Peter Blake Gallery is located in California and attend and exhibit its artwork in many major EXPOs.

(Photo taken by Songyuan Han at Art Institute of Chicago Fri Sep. 18 2015)

Booth2: Document (905) Chicago

-1: Founded in 2011, document is a commercial gallery located in Chicago

-2: I took this picture just because the artwork is beautiful to me and its great effect when evenly placed on the white wall. Such juxtaposition brings out sense of mordernity.

-3: Analyzing the style, I think it is (or they are) a combination of collage and the modern form of Cubism. Many similar pieces are placed together to give sense of collage and each of them are created using the arrangement of geometric forms. Therefore, the artwork can be seen both as one collage or several small pieces of cubism drawings.

-4: Although the main theme and the geometric shapes in the pictures are similar, the effect of light and shade is not the same and such technique create multiple 3 dimentional spaces in different depth.

-5: Their arrangement on the wall is effective because the artworks are hanged without frame but the artworks are also protrude from the wall. Shades are created and the wall istelf serve as the canvass of the whole artwork.

(Photo taken by Songyuan Han at Art Institute of Chicago Fri Sep. 18 2015)

Booth3: Pearl Lam Galleries (523) Hong Kong/Shanghai/Singapore

-1: The reason I pick this painting is that it is the artwork from my home nation which is China and other part of Asia. And I found things interesting that people no longer use Guohua (a traditional ink drawing) to represent artworks from China but to use more westernwized or worldwide oil painting to convey oriental ideas.

-2: This artwork is the self-portrate of the artist which is abstract and give a sense of surrealism in the expression.

-3: Similar to the art work from the Peter Blake Gallery, the artwork is money consuming because the surface is not flat but protruding and such effect will cost lots of oil paint which is expensive. Art is a money consuming field.

-4: The painting depict a man's head and use the oil paint to as cover the head. The mixture of color looks like flesh and it make people think of there might be an "ordinary" self-portrait underneath the thick paint.

-5: Again, the artwork is trying to express a combination of 3 dimentional space and 2 dimentional surface. And after browsing all the artwork of the modern art, I find that the mixture of two and three dimention is the main theme and such concept is revolutionizing the art.