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Daria Callie

Artist Daria Callie's oil painting style I feel very suitable for newcomers who are just beginning to learn realistic oil painting

Daria Callie often uploads instructional videos of paintings on the youtube video site, especially portraits. It will also teach some simple colouring and pen methods. The aspect of over-grading colour control is very good in the video.

I think that people who want to learn classical oil paintings will start to use some simple works in this way and then copy the classical oil paintings. It will be a good transition.

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Aerographies

Aerographies /TomásSaraceno

Artist: Tomás Saraceno

A visionary artist whose work combines science, technology, and art, Tomás Saraceno’s first solo exhibition in China, organized by Fosun Foundation Shanghai, brings together many of the artist’s most important and iconic works that embody his utopian view of the future. Born in Tucumán, Argentina, in 1973, Saraceno now lives and works in Berlin. 

His artistic method, bridges across the fields of art and science to create self-contained ecological spaces that link the natural environment with our social conditions. This exhibition concentrates on the space above the Earth’s surface, inviting viewers to travel together on an imagined journey from the micro- to the macrocosmic. The artist centres his explorations and constructions around the spaces above the surface of Earth, located in air, outside the realm of extant human habitations.

In today’s China, as a society, the economy, science, and technology are all developing apace, we are honoured to present the art of Tomás Saraceno to audiences in Shanghai and all over China. His works are replete with considerations of life in the future, both imaginary and practical.  in this age of unprecedented human connection and interaction, we can work together to build a more beautiful future world, one whose development is sustainable in the long term.

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Engraving art

Engraving art is the art of making seals by combining calligraphy and engraving (including chiselling and casting), which is a unique art form of Chinese characters.

 The engraving began in the pre-Qin Dynasty, Sheng Han, weak in Jin, defeated in Tang and Song, revived in Ming, and Zhongxing in Qing. It has a history of more than 3,700 years.

As early as the Yin and Shang Dynasties, people used the knife to engrave the word on the tortoiseshell (that is, modern called Oracle). These words are sharp and sharp, with a high level of "lettering". Before the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period to the Qin Dynasty, the engraved seal was called "玺(xi)" which was engraved on the jade, and the enamel was engraved on the metal. After Emperor Qin Shihuang unified the six countries, it was stipulated that "玺（xi)" was used exclusively for the emperor, and the following ministers and private seals were called "printing", and they were abandoned afterwards. This formed the emperor's use of the name "玺(xi)" or "宝(bao)", the official seal called "print", the military used to be called "zhang", and the private use of the name "printed letter."

Tool

Obeying a knife is like writing a pen. Generally, there is no law. All kinds of knives have advantages and disadvantages. It is nothing more than the habit of adapting to the engraver. Look at the quality of the engraved works, not watching the performances.

 But using a knife-reading method that suits your habits can help you to print. Editors like to use the knife method, like a pen. Generally, teenagers are easy to accept. With the thumb, forefinger and middle finger, the ring finger and the little finger are attached to the middle finger, the angle is about 45°. 

By the joint of the above three fingers, it is engraved from the lower right to the left front, and the direction of the knife is unchanged. It is easy to launch outwards like a punch. After proficiency, you can also change the angle and direction of the blade and freely handle the details of the machining. In addition, the method of three-finger wrapping is also accepted by many people.

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James Turrell’s Famous MoMA PS1 Skyspace Interrupted by Neighboring Luxury Condo Development

In the immortal words of Joni Mitchell, “They paved paradise and put up a parking lot massive skyscraper.”

James Turrell’s “Meeting” at MoMA PS1 (image via @jenist/Twitter)

A Long Island City development project’s scaffolding has slowly crept into the skyspace of James Turrell’s New York installation, “Meeting” (1980–86) at MoMA PS1. Excising an aperture from the museum’s ceiling, the Light and Space pioneer’s project is framed by undulating LEDs that focus viewers on the atmosphere’s shifting colour palette from dawn to dusk. It’s likely that the visionary artist’s goal was to have museumgoers meditate on the sky’s aesthetic qualities, and not the Queens’ neighbourhood’s shifting skyline.

But thanks to the borough’s rapid gentrification, Turrell must confront new and unforeseen challenges that threaten his work’s purity. Such intrusions weren’t likely on his mind when he started building “Meeting,” according to Craig Adcock, a professor of art history at the University of Iowa who wrote the book James Turrell: The Art of Light and Space.

“It might have been a distant worry,” he tells Gothamist. “Of course, having a high-rise visible there through the ceiling and aperture will ruin it. It won’t work properly if there’s a building with lights up that’s visible.”

In a statement, a spokesperson for MoMA PS1 noted that the currently visible scaffolding will not be visible when the building is complete, mediating fears that the sky pollution is here to stay.

The artist has yet to comment on the unfolding situation at the museum.

A redesign in 2007 made the tower stand twice as high as originally planned. Turrell declared the work “destroyed,” and created a new design for the space that wouldn’t have the Museum Tower in view. As with finding a solution to the MoMA PS1 issue, those plans have yet to materialize.

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Kesi

(English: K’o-ssu, Kesi or Chinese silk tapestry), also known as “cut silk”, is the essence of traditional Chinese silk art. It is the most traditional type of picking and grooving in the Chinese silk industry, and it is very decorative and decorative. 

Since the Song and Yuan Dynasties, it has been one of the royal fabrics. It is often used to weave emperor costumes, Yuzhen (Yu Rongxiang) and celebrity paintings. Because the weaving process is extremely meticulous, it is often better than the original, and the Cui Shi boutique is extremely rare. It is the highlight of today's weaving embroidery collection and auction. There is often a reputation of “one inch of silk and one inch of gold” and “the holy of weaving”.

Silk has its own special weaving machine, which is a simple plain wood machine. When weaving, we first install the warp on the loom, and the warp is lining the draft or the manuscript. The weaver uses the brush to draw the colour pattern of the painting on the warp surface, and then use the length of about ten centimetres. The boat-shaped shuttle with various silk threads is woven in a pattern.

The technique of silk reeling continued to develop after the Song Dynasty. The centre of the silk industry in the Qing Dynasty has been moved to Suzhou. The colour weft yarn used is as many as 6,000 colours, and the celebrity paintings and calligraphy of Linyi method are adopted. The craftsmanship is superb and vivid. Silk products are still produced and collected as high-end handicrafts.

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Feminism  /Beating the Fear of Freelancing

Sofia Hyndman has created a squad, and in doing so, an impressive illustration career

Sofia Hydman is a woman with a thoroughly enviable squad. She refers to them as “my girls,” and they seem like a hell of a lot of fun. They love their food, openly fart, delight in their own boobs and bellies, and appear to very rarely (if ever) give a fuck.

In a world of toned abs and bodacious babes—even in the frequently forward-thinking world of illustration—it’s refreshing to see little titties and fat bellies being celebrated, and in Hyndman's work, this is no accident. “There’s not a lot of these sort of girls out there,” she says. “I like that they’re shiny and pink, and sometimes old.”

Back in 2016, she made the brave decision to move to New York for a year and work as an art direction duo with her boyfriend at the ad agency Anomaly. For some couples, that sort of life-work crossbreeding would be a nightmarish hell; for Hydman, it all worked out just great. “We really got to know each other in a different way,” she says.

But how not to take work home, together? “It is hard to draw a line,” Hydman concedes. “When you’re a designer or an art director your work is basically your hobby, but when it’s interesting and exciting to talk about it’s ok, but it is hard not to talk about work.”

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Kaws

Brian Donnelly (born 1974), known professionally as Kaws (stylized as KAWS), is an American artist and designer. His work includes repeated use of a cast of figurative characters and motifs, some dating back to the beginning of his career in the 1990s, initially painted in 2D and later realised in 3D. Some of his characters are his own creations while others are reworked versions of existing icons.

Kaws's sculptures range in size from a few inches to ten metres tall and are made from various materials including fibreglass, aluminium, wood and bronze.

His work is exhibited in galleries and museums, held in the permanent collections of public institutions, and avidly collected by individuals.A number of books illustrating his work have been published. He lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

Kaws' acrylic paintings and sculpture have many repeating images, all meant to be universally understood, surpassing languages and cultures. Some of his characters that date back to the beginning of his career in the 1990s: Companion (created in 1999), Accomplice, Chum and Bendy. One of his early series, Package Paintings, was made in 2000. This series, The Simpsons, subverted the American cartoon The Simpsons. Kaws explains that he "found it weird how infused a cartoon could become in people's lives; the impact it could have, compared to regular politics." In addition, he has reworked other familiar characters such as Mickey Mouse, the Michelin Man, the Smurfs, Snoopy, and SpongeBob SquarePants.

Kaws has periodically shown both paintings and products at Colette in Paris since 1999. His work was included in the travelling exhibition Beautiful Losers, which started at the Cincinnati Contemporary Art Center and travelled throughout the US and Europe, including his then largest museum show to date at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, GA in 2012.

Kaws's "Companion", a grayscale clown-like figure based on Mickey Mouse with his face obscured by both hands, was adapted into a balloon for the 2012 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, as part of its "Blue Sky Gallery" along with other balloons.

Having already created oversized sculptures in the past, he started to produce further sculptures of his "Companion" character for exhibitions in Switzerland, Hong Kong, Malaga, London and China.

Kaws also produces screen prints, for example, "Paper Smile", "Ups And Downs" and "Presenting The Past".

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《The Phantom Of the Opera》

"The Phantom Of The Opera" is one of the masterpieces of the musical master Andrew Lloyd Weber. It is a musical with wonderful music, romantic drama and perfect dance. The eternal masterpiece. It is adapted from the Gothic love story of the same name by the French writer Gaston Louis Alfred Lerou.

"Phantom of the Opera" has so far performed more than 65,000 games in 110 cities in 20 countries around the world, with more than 58 million viewers watching, with a total income of more than 1.6 billion pounds. 

 Get more than 50 major drama awards, including three Oliver Awards, the 2002 Oliver Spectator's Most Popular Repertoire Award, a London Standard Evening Award, and seven Tony Awards, including the Best Musical Award. Seven drama art awards and three external commentary awards. 

The original sound recording of the show became the first album in the history of British musicals to be ranked first in the album rankings, and it won gold and platinum sales in the United Kingdom and the United States and sold more than one million albums. 

"Phantom of the Opera" premiered at the Queen's Theatre in London, England on October 9, 1986. Michael Crawford and Sarah Brightman are the leading actors. So far, the show has 16 production versions around the world.

In an opera house in Paris, strange things happen frequently, the original chief actress is almost killed, and the theatre has a creepy illusory male voice. The sound came from the "ghost" living in the underground labyrinth of the theatre. He fell in love with the actress Christine, secretly taught her to sing and help her get the heroine's position, while Christine loved the theatre agent Rao. Er, this caused a series of plots such as jealousy, chasing, and murder. In the end, the "ghost" found that her love for Christine had surpassed her personal possessiveness, so she freed Christine, leaving her cloak and mask, and disappeared alone in the dark underground labyrinth.

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Weather

The weather project, 2003 Tate Modern, London, 2003

Created for the Turbine Hall of Tate Modern, London, this site-specific installation employed a semi-circular screen, a ceiling of mirrors, and artificial mist to create the illusion of a sun. Aluminium frames lined with mirror foil were suspended from the ceiling to create a giant mirror that visually doubled the volume of the hall – along with the semi-circular screen mounted on the far wall, its long edge abutting the mirrored ceiling. Backlit by approximately 200 mono-frequency lights, the semi-circle and its reflection created the image of a massive, indoor sunset seen through the artificial mist emitted into the room. By walking to the far end of the hall, visitors could see how the sun was constructed, and the reverse of the mirror structure was visible from the top floor of the museum.

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Vincent van Gogh

Vincent van Gogh(1853-90), a self-styles stranger on earth’, was to emerge in the following century as one of the first media-moulded personas to inhabit collective consciousness, a man on a first-name basis with the world.

self-portrait .before an Easel,1888

He took no interest in the sensational new painting that was generating controversy in Paris in the mid-1870s. Throughout his stay (May 1875 to March 1876) Van Gogh reminded oblivious to the style that a critic had dubbed ‘Impressionism’ in response to the first group exhibition by Camille Pissarro(1830-1903), Claude Monet(1840-1926), Pierre-Auguste Renoir(1841-1919)and their associates in the spring of 1874.

A Presant Woman Gleaning, 1885 

In summer 1885 Van Gogh made his best renderings yet of field hands in action

Shortly thereafter, he sought to outdo himself, At Saint-Remy, his view of the night sky was unimpeded by buildings, it’s starlight virtually uncorrupted by gas illumination. Though he may have been frustrated by asylum rules that prevented him from painting outdoors after dark(something he enjoyed immensely).

Starry NIght,1889.Oil on canvas

The Almond Blossoms Van Gogh made for his newborn namesake nephew in mid- February, When he tackled Provence’s earliest blooms au naturel

Almond Blossoms,1890. oil on canvas

By the mid-1890s Van Gogh was becoming a cultural hero in his homeland. His explosively expressive work was held to reflect tensions inherent to modern times, and the painter was revered as a Christlike man of the people who bucked convention in his pursuit of the spiritual.

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Some reflection about “French National Natural History Museum”

When i read the book ‘what’s the exhibition design’ I was so inerested about the venues designed by Chemetov&Huidobro who work’s name of Grand Galerie de L’evolution .i ws deeply attracted by this place. 

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Picture A  is the globle graph about Grand Galerie de L’evolution

Actually we can see from this photoes ,these animals are clearly classified in these huge exhibition halls.

So , i found the website page about the ifoemation of this museum:

http://www.grandegaleriedelevolution.fr/fr/galerie/histoire-galerie/renovation-galerie-grande-galerie-evolution

There are lots of introduction and vedio about it.

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 Break through the traditional

i think why it’s impressed me most is becaue the following four reasons:

as far as i am concered,the layout of this exhibition is break though the traditional.basically in people’s mind exhibition just serve for the trade show,museum, nessisary places,common space,something like that .and the function is for explan what the object is.this lay out bring a new visual feeling to people.it’s not the single animal introduction but has a relationship between people and the enviroment.

There are many types and the classification is clear.

The exhibition takes the wildlife species seriously from an academic perspective and divides them into different exhibition areas.For example sea creatures, reptiles, animal skeletons, and so on.following three pictures can show this point:

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reptiles,Elephants, rhinos, giraffes, zebras

Aquatic organisms

There are some other categories between the different small exhibition panels

After the design of the exhibition satisfies the function of the pavilion to provide the basic information to the audience, the arrangement is still very innovative. The arrangement of the animals, especially the feeling of the land reptiles in the middle, is very interesting. It seems that different animals are lined up together. But these are the sights that are hard to see in our daily lives.

These models were restored according to the proportion of real animals, and the arrangement is natural and reasonable, in contrast to people. There is also a clear and clear contrast between animals and animals.

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Han Chinese Clothing

Hanfu

 full name is "the han nationality traditional clothing, clothes, also known as han han, well-dressed, acceded to the throne from the yellow emperor to the middle of the 17th century (Ming dynasty), in the main residential areas, the han nationality" -- han Chinese culture as the background and the dominant idea, to the Chinese etiquette culture as the center, through the natural evolution and formation of the unique han style and personality, significantly different from other national system of traditional clothing and accessories, is China's "clothes", "formal state", "splendid China", seres, dyed silk embroideries of han nationality and other outstanding technology and aesthetics, It inherits more than 30 Chinese intangible cultural heritage and protected Chinese arts and crafts.

history

Han fu "started in the yellow emperor, and was prepared by yao and shun" from the yellow emperor system of the crown dress. Established in the zhou dynasty, and through the han dynasty based on the four books and five classics to form a complete system of crown, as part of the Shinto teaching. Therefore, in the later Chinese dynasties, all the emperors lived in the zhou dynasty and the han dynasty. "Huang di, yao and shun used their clothes to rule the world, and benefit from heaven and earth." this means that the shape of the clothes under the coat is determined by god and sacred. 

Hanfu has also influenced the whole han culture circle through the Chinese legal system. Some ethnic groups in Asian countries, such as Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Mongolia, Bhutan, etc. all have the characteristics of hanfu or borrowed from it.

The basic structure

Hanfu with width 2 feet 2 inches (50 cm) textiles clipping, and divided into the collar, front, the accused, short, shoemaker, sleeve, sleeve, such as belt, Fu ten parts

Take two equal lengths of cloth, respectively fold, as the front skirt back train, suture back middle seam. The front undress is a straight - collared shirt. If you take another piece of cloth and cut it into two garments, du meridian and ren meridian, the accused in pulse on the right side, therefore calls YouRen. 

The length of the train is divided into the waist, the knees and the feet. According to the length of the fringing, there are three kinds of hanfu length: Ru, Shu, deep. The seam between the sleeve and the cuff is called "grenz", and the cuff is called "remove". A complete set of hanfu usually has three layers: small clothes (underwear), medium clothes, overcoat