Manet and the teacher

Shuengit Chow· a day ago 

Very humourous, so cool. But almost all stories have the same structure. There is not so much variations in a photoframe - especially one that is functional oriented. You dont want a v inventive type of image in a lecture video - too distracting. Imagine, if you have a person in an experimental film like setting to deliver a lecture... that would be a new kind of learning material wouldnt it? :) A choker necklace is v different from a droopy dangling one, dont you think? Who wears chokers in paintings/ films? If we take it one level down - into the details, there are many other fun things to do. I think a lot of art has to do not only w the all important structure but also a lot to do w details when the original context is fixed.

Comics and Graphic Novels, feedback to wk 1 forum on other's thread

Comics and Graphic Novels

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Shuengit Chow·

I saw a thread concerning Archies, which made me think of the following: When I see pictures of the Archie and Veronica animation/cartoons, I hear the voices of these cartoon characters. Not a big fan, but I see the lives of these funny kids - the way they live so much fun - I never do any of the things they do in the books though! I only like to see what they do, I would not enjoy doing it as they do. Sometimes, to enjoy something, you not only have to do/make the specific gestures, the things, but all around the context has to be concurring otherwise, its a kind of tourism. Reading comic books are a kind of pop tourism, but comics are not yet graphic novels I dont think. Its light and fun just like what a comic books should be, doesnt touch anything deeper than that. ie Archie and Verconic gang could get in trouble and we never hear of what actually happened in such a situation? I just watched the film Nebraska - here is a story told with all the tiny consequences of each apparently good life - with the surface and the tremor underneath. A comic book doesnt need to do that, graphic novels are like a film, a comic book is there for light and lively fun reading. No heavy stuff. :)

thread: Amercian Born Chinese - Chinese version

The Chinese title is "美生中国人".


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Maus is one of the most powerful tale I have seen in graphic novels - because of the stories and the things the characters in the book had to live through. After I read it, I am so convinced that this book is worthy of all its fame. The writer/story/ artist has to have so much sensitivity and strength to get it out here. This is much more than a pretty graphics book. 



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Shaun Tan 
http://www.shauntan.net/books/the-arrival.html
 

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a day ago Posted in Proust in Comics

Remembrance of Things Past: Combray (Remembrance of Things Past) (Vol 1) Remembrance of Things Past: Combray (Remembrance of Things Past) (Vol 1) Paperback by Stephane Heuet (Adapter, Author) , Marcel Proust (Author) Even though I enjoy reading little snippets of Proust every now and then and never continuously to finish any of his books, I must say its a joy to read Proust in a comic form. Thin ink lined drawings in the style of TinTin... Somebody has done a great deal of work to present this humongous story - shortened into a thin little comic book. :) Try it, you would soon have read Proust too.

 

 Feedback for wk 1

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re: thread

Realist Painting vs. Craziness,

Justin sloan

I dont think the second example is ugly - its a color patch type of painting, very lively.  Though the colors are high contrast, so not a soothing type of eye experience.  Its like lemon juice - and not banana milk shake.  :)   The first example is realist drawing, we see the loving time and efforts spent by the artists.  Little by little, even the artist in the first group doesnt do a v gd job, we could still see the loving time and effort and the work is still good.  But if the result is not good and the loving time and effort also not visible , then its really not worthy of the name of art.  :)  It would be a rush job for some other purpose - like a quickie ad, quickie commercial ad !  :)
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Carla Guillen

Sketchbook assignment 1 - Art for me / Art for them

I like your sketches very much.  Its in a clean and innocent style - like some New Yorker cartoons.  Art for you and Art for them... Them - There is only one YOU and many THEM... who are the possible THEM's? 
Are we allowed to say what THEM's are saying in their place?  Who gets to be the speaker?
Anyway, I like the ideas in what you say, and your picture v much.  Especially the one that represents YOU. 

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Perfect World Art - Publicly Integrated Moments (Beautiful Decay) 

K. McCann

 

Shuengit Chow· just now 

I like these pictures v much. Public Art and Private art, some you put inside your home. Others out there to prepare for the possiblity of an echo. If its for the public, the artist is making a great gift of their time and love. If its private, its a private contract between the collector and the maker. If its in your own sketchbook, then, its a secret for your eyes only. Thats what I think Art for the self and Art for THEM... :)

 

Sketchbook Assignment 2: Mental Map: about Think Drink Mug

Sketchbook Assignment 2: Mental Map

I am currently interested in the use of 3d cermaic printers.
To start I did a little research in various small objects that I would like to use myself everyday.

For example:  a coffee/tea mug.

What kind of object would you want to use everyday, and look at everyday?

I start with a mug I already have at home :  story is, I purchased it at a Salvation Army store in Toronto about 30yrs ago.  The cost was 25cents.  It was amongst a lot of other cermic objects.  When I go into a shop in a new city - or at a fleamarket, or any place thats new and I want to have a souvenir from the place - I make it a target to find something to buy.  This mug was one of these objects.

It looks like a mass produced cup.  The design looks a little like the drawings from French cubist, modernist style of the 50's, 60's.  
After research on the web :> Incredible Ceramic Vintage Art Pottery Mug

1// Think Drink Mug : original object (the one shown was from web not the one I have)





 


 





2// Think Drink Mug: similar types of objects, with Head as drink recipient
>Mug the think drink 1966 to '69 Coffee Counsel
Seems like a reproduction of the original - because the lines are much blurrier, softer, colors and glazing are different.  The original is much sharper.

 

3// Think Drink Mug: Darth Vader

4// Think Drink Mug : using background with live action



5// Think Drink Mug: wrinkled mug - how to produce irregular wrinkles?  ie Paper bag shaped mug?

6// Think Drink Mug: Crinkle serie by Makoto Komatsu, 1975
http://www.makoto-komatsu.com/design.html; collection Moma




 crinkle super bag 1997

  

Crinkle plate and tumbler
No worries, it’s not a paper cup or plate for food – it’s all ceramic. A popular designer Makoto Komatsu is well known as his way of philosophy “ Design meets humor”- made of ceramic with unique paper texture and “crinkle”. This New Crinkle line, master piece of Makoto such a long selling line from 1975; high-end design and white colour suit any occasion and cuisine.

Brand: ceramic japan
Design: Makoto Komatsu

Brand: ceramic japan
Design: Makoto Komatsu
other works.

 
KUU SERIES 2009
PORCELAIN CASTING & OPEN WORK

http://ceramicartsdaily.org/pottery-making-techniques/ceramic-decorating-techniques/how-to-make-delicate-translucent-platters-with-porcelain-slip-and-terra-sigillata/ 




Made in Japan
Other crinkle mugs:



My own wrinkled square mug - no name white porcelain

7// Think Drink Mug:

Unusual physical properties of material ; ie wrinkled paper texture for ceramics, melting metal for clocks, etc.
Mixing of two different states, liquid with solid (dripping in real life on a linking image fixed on the ceramic) etc


8// Think Drink Mug:: Drop Rest Mug



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2338290/Say-goodbye-coffee-rings-table-Ingenious-new-mug-prevents-spillage-staining.html

9// Think Drink Mug :: Celadon green mugs w soft edges
http://mattfiske.wordpress.com/2014/02/22/mugs/



10// Think Drink Mug

http://www.shokunin.com/en/ceramicjapan/ahiru.html

Ceramic Japan
Ahiru Cup & Saucer

Size:12.2 8.5 6.5cm(Cup), Dia14.3 2cm(saucer)
Capacity:170ml
Available:Microwave Oven, Dishwasher
Price:2,700yen


 

 Still Green Vase - Moma collection

 

Ceramic Japan
Still Green S

Size:11 5.5 H10.5cm
Price:5,100yen

A bottle shaped outline that holds a flower! White porcelain .105mm W x 55mm D x 190mm H.


11// Think Drink Mug


 http://www.dezeen.com/2010/07/05/pixel-mould-by-julian-bond/


The vases are created using a traditional slip casting technique, which usually uses fixed moulds, however this machine allows users to create their own one-off designs.


12// Think Drink Mug

http://www.dezeen.com/2012/08/17/drapery-vases-by-kruskopf-and-kuisma/
The Drapery collection was made by first sewing fabric in the shape of a vase and hardening it with resin.  A plaster mould was then made of the fabric vase and the final piece was cast in ceramic and glazed on the inside.


13// Think Drink Mug

14// Think Drink Mug


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wk2 : Graphic Novels

1:: Chris Ware's graphic novel, 2:: The Rabbi's Cat, 3:: He Youzhi's short story albums.

The above are three graphic novels taken from random sources in my head.
Chris Ware struck me as a very outstanding artist with the inner stillness of his stories.  The delicate ways of telling ordinary everyday feelings in middle working class North America.  ie How a remote father puts a shirt in the oven so its warm for the son to wear next day.  Tiny details like this,  in simplified lined drawings with a palette of greyish pastel just totally offers a complete scene - and setting of the tale.  Wonderful artwork, I just want to look at the pages slowly.
The Rabbi's cat i first saw as an animation film, it was made from a French  graphic novel - the beauty of the story and in depth knowledge about North African culture - Algerian culture, the foods, the light, the way a cat would see the relationships of the house hold and as the cat could speak, he speaks to us the audience in a shameless way that he lusts after his owner - the pretty girl.  What a wonderful story, beautiful line drawings, and colors.  Above all its the details of the story that makes it so charming.  And the music, tongue in cheek lyric at the end.  Wonderful.

He Youzhi has his own gallery at the Shanghai Museum of Art, he has drawn many many novels - these palm sized sequential picture book albums.  it combines Chinese stories, and Chinese brush work drawings.  Wonderful solid art work.  He said to me that he was invited to Angouleme as a guest professor, but what could he teach to the students?  Strength of brush works, how to do the actual drawing?  He said, he cannot and doesnt want to travel anywhere now, because to have something new, you must have new stories.  With old stories, your comic book would be old.  Need new head he said with a smile.  His books are beautiful!  Sequential picture books are a very important part of childrens book - and they are collector items in antique stores, a lot of them have been reprinted now.  Unlike Manga which are commercial productions, sequential picture books are fine art.  Fine Art of drawing.





Here are Jeannene's instructions for the second sketchbook assignment. Again, this is completely optional. Don't forget to visit the Sketchbook Assignment 1 forum to provide feedback on your peers' submissions! Jen Sketchbook Assignment 2: Mental Map It’s good to try to know yourself as an artist and visual thinker. And it’s interesting to learn from others. This week I’m asking you to tell your own story in images and words, and learn about things you might not know from other people’s stories. In your sketchbook, assemble ten (10) images, books, films, or even music/songs that provide a history and context for your current work or interests in art, animation and/or gaming, whether as a practitioner, viewer or player/participant. Choose works that are important to the way you think, and just as importantly, works that inspire you in ways that you can’t always perhaps put into words. Reach back into your childhood (where you may perhaps find some unexpected sources of inspiration) and look around you to collect some contemporary resources. (This assignment is particularly well-suited to a digital sketchbook, like a Tumblr or blog, but as before, if you are posting content that is not your own, please cite where you retrieved each image with a link.) Sequence your images/items in a way that makes sense to you, chronologically or thematically or some other way. Start a new thread in the "Sketchbook Assignment 2: Mental Map" forum. Give your thread a title, write a short intro (100-200 words), and post your images/list of links, or a link to your digital sketchbook/blog where you created your sequence. Click “Create New Thread.”