about the course flow

关于每一堂课的Keyword Brainstorm:

1. The Artist Within: Left-brain vs. Right-brain Perception
To know your own body through images & to raise interest in drawing skill practise.
* First drawings:
Up-down reversed drawing for classmate; blind drawing to music; left hand drawing.
* Involve choerography.
From face expression, hand gesture to body movement. Degas.
* Analyse the image:
Strokes; composition; color. vs emotion; feelings; intention.
* Dot, line, surface, volumn. Kandinsky.


2. Purpose of Art: Imitation vs. Expression
To compare and apply the two different ways of art-making: copy and/or extension of the nature.
＊在此想比较中西方自然与画家的关系。以及绘画材料对画的影响。
The eastern: 从玄学思想影响的魏晋山水开始到文人画的大写意。具象画较晚出现。
The western: Medieval religous painting, Da Vinci, Jan van EyckCézanne, to Modernism.
Some tools: (composition from last lecture) to GRID. Dürer.
Extension:
* The students' understanding of the nature.
* Do a sound recording of students drawing same strokes over and over. Students do a solo one after one. (Can also use Akio Susuki's rubber/glass painting.)


3. Painting and Poetry in Western and Eastern Traditions
Literature & Visual literacy.
Illustrations for Bible.
William Blake.
Chinese poems and scenery paintings.
Instructional Paintings by Yoko Ono.


4. Western Academy Painting vs. Chinese Intellectual Paintings
* need reconsideration. I would like to input knowledge about western painters in China from Ming-Qing dynasties and minimize the content of western academy painting, since this concept varies a lot in styles and concept through different stages of art history.


5. Painting after the Invention of Photography
Camera obscura
The dutch scenery paintings. Vermeer
David Hockney.
Super-realism in current scene.


6. Impressionist and Expressionist and Their Influence from the East
Turner.
Monet.
Gauguin.
Lautrec
* Suggest to add a lecture to talk about Ukiyo-e.


7. Exploring Unique Visions: Cubism and Abstract Schools of Paintings
Cubism's linkage to space - 3d, video/time - 4d.
Picasso. Mondrian. Duchamp. Dadaism. Milo. Magaret. Klee.


8. Women Painters from Different Countries: Engendered Eyes and Experiences
Women Artists link on wiki.
Some possible choices:
Frida Kahlo. 潘玉良. Valadon. 单峥. Cassatt. Yayoi Kusama.


9. Eastern Masters Trained in the West: Reinventing the Ancient Visions


10. Revolutionary Paintings: Russian Prints and Chinese Woodcut Prints
* can't find much information about russian prints...
Escher.
Kollwitz.


11. Japanese Manga vs. American Comics
Suggest to broaden the countries/artists. for exampple: 丰子恺.
Character styling. Cosplay. Story telling.


12. World Maps in Various Forms
Information Design.


13. Mapping in Visual Storytelling and Design
Make a sketchbook / booklet, a summary of the whole course.

西方发现中国丛书

在图书馆瞥见的一本《清宫洋画家》原来出自一个西方学者的角度，系［西方发现中国丛书］之三。译者耿昇的另一些译作似乎很值得一读，有〈中国文化西传欧洲史〉、〈中国对法国哲学思想形成的影响〉。可借来一读。

現僅作抄錄：
P5
利瑪竇（Matto Ricci）絕不會忘記，主要是科學，是西方科學才可以吸引中國人，才會為西洋人的文明昭雪，並由此而提醒那些熟悉底細情況的人，產生受基督宗教歸化的想法。
P9
被啓蒙時代人士理想化了的18世紀的中國形象，輿真實的中國之形象，該有多大的差異啊！當時中國已經僵化，鄙視貿易、利潤和國際交流，並且拒絕接受外國的發明創造。中國在他們的發明中本來是超前西方數世紀，18世紀的中國卻在沉睡中，並不再希望前進發展了。

Female Artists

The ones I like from the book of by Zhou Qing.

Hannah Höch
Cannot miss. The Dada lady.

Tamara de Lempicka
She is a beautiful Polish. Her person is a bit more attractive than her paintings.
Though they both really have a style.

Frida Kahlo
Her works on the internet. Frida will definitely be covered in the lectures.

Yoko Oko. Just because her being together with a man from another culture.

Judy Chicago, but the only good one is "the Dinner Party".

Vanessa Beecroft
Her drawings are very cute.
:)






Though, this book itself is quite boring. I don't recommend.

中西画家对自然的理解和表现

山水画的心态－－宗炳之“畅神”

《中国绘画这棵树》P45
山水画开始脱离人物画成为独立的画种，是在六朝时期。其时顾恺之绘有《庐山图》，被称为“山水之祖”；宗炳写有《画山水序》，谈山水与“道”的关系，奠定了中国绘画的哲学基础。当时山水画的发展，和魏晋玄学的兴起有关。“以玄对山水”，用山水画体现玄学的意义，而导致山水画的勃兴。



《范山模水》P26
约在元嘉初年，宗炳作了可能是生平最后的一次远游，他“西陟荆巫，南登衡岳”，并且“结宅横山，欲怀尚平之志”。然而其间却不意染病，无奈回到江陵休养。正是这次染疾和年事渐高等原因，令“性本爱山丘”的宗炳在内心深处产生了一种莫名的恐慌－－“老疾俱至，名山恐难遍睹”，于是他决定“唯当澄怀观道，卧以游之”，将平生所游，“画象布色，构兹云岭”，“皆图之于室”，在澄怀卧游之余，他面对着那些画壁上的景物，“抚琴动操，欲令众山皆响”。就在创作这些山水壁画的同时，宗炳写下了也许是中国山水画发展史上最为经典的一篇文论－－《画山水序》。
P27
在文中他精微地描写了他忘情地面对自己亲笔画在墙上的那些山川故友时内心的细腻感受，所谓“闲居理气，拂觞鸣琴，披图幽对，坐究四荒。不违天励之丛，独应无人之野”，于是乎，他由衷地发出了一番极富震撼力的感叹，并且明确地宣称他画山水画的目的道：“圣贤映于绝代，万趣融其神思，余复何为哉？畅神而已！”“神之所畅，孰有先焉！”



透纳
于油画创作中运用水彩画的技巧。
对印象派有重要影响。