Arghhhh it’s the end of a week again. Why it seems
like time passes faster and faster? Seems like I just updated the post about the
field trip yesterday.
Well, formal and contextual art analysis for
this week.
Important art works from 3 important artists were shown: Ibrahim
Hussien, Redza Piyadasa and Yee I-Laan.
Ibrahim Hussien
May 13 (1969)
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| Retrieved from: http://keatsthesunshinegirl.blogspot.com/2010/06/ibrahim-hussein-museum-and-cultural.html |
A darken flag, represents death of the nation.
Red line, represents the separation, violent.
White circle, represents a cycle, which means
the same incident might happen again. It can also be analysed as the future of
Malaysia, be it a good or a bad future. Because of the emptiness of the white
circle, nobody knows about the future.
As I searched for this image, I found that
Ibrahim Hussein explained:
Black represents the eclipse the country was going
through;
Red represents the twilight that comes after
the eclipse and darkness;
White circle symbolises a new energy and a rebirth.
So from what I interpreted, it means, after the
tragedy that Malaysians gone through, they will get a better tomorrow.
My Father and the
Astronaut (1970)
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| Retrieved from: https://platypusflatus.wordpress.com/2012/08/19/talking-art-at-the-1st-asean-symposium-on-aesthetics/ibrahim-hussein_my-father-and-the-astronaut_1970/ |
“You can take the boy out of the kampong, but
you can’t take the kampong out of the boy.”
No matter how progressive a person is, the background
will be with him/her for the entire life.
A background is what makes a person to become.
No matter how successful we are, we should
never forget from where we were come from.
Redza Piyadasa
May 13 (1970)
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| Retrieved from: http://www.designboom.com/art/sam-singapore-art-museum-at-8q/ |
This art work seen as May 13 and Malaysia is
dead. With the white cloth by the surrounding, it has the feel of funeral.
With the incomplete Malaysian flag painted on
the upright coffin, it is seen as the nation is not united, Malaysians are
fragmented. And the mirror under the coffin, it reflects the coffin which shows
that we are not getting out of this tragedy. My own opinion, I think the
purpose of putting the mirror as bottom is to show that Malaysia is dead no
matter from what perspective you see this tragedy.
Why the coffin is upright? My own opinion
again, maybe is to show that although the tragedy turns Malaysia into chaos,
the Malaysians will still stand strong and will not be defeated easily.
Yee I-Lann
Kerbau (2007)
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| Retrieved from: http://www.cacsa.org.au/?page_id=2803 |
I have seen this art work during the field trip
to Bank Negara Museum and Art Gallery.
As what Dr Carmen explained to us, the white background means that those buffaloes
do not have background. The orange cone on the floor is the guide to guide the
buffaloes to move to certain way, but because of the stubborn of buffaloes,
they ignore the guides.
It is just like humans, sometimes they are
stubborn and ignore the guides and rules.
A Rousing Account of
Migration in the Language of the Sea (2010)
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| Retrieved from: http://www.photomedia.com.my/#!masterprint/cmws |
This art work is like a series from the beginning
of the migration and the end of the migration.
The buffaloes are forced to migrate to another
place with their belongings through the turbid water. During the migration, the
buffaloes lost their belongings.
As displayed is the gallery, the frame of this
art work looks like a window, and the viewers are looking at the migration of
the buffaloes through the window at a comfortable place. This shows a huge
contrast between comfortable life and hardship.
Lang Kacang (1991)
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| Retrieved from: http://artasiapacific.com/Magazine/WebExclusives/IntersectingHistoriesContemporaryTurnsInSoutheastAsianArt |
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This is an art work from Bayu Utomo, made of
metal and cement.
The expression shows the person is screaming
because of anger. It is limbless so it’s taken away the ability to do anything.
From what I interpreted, the person feels
helpless and this is shown through the expression, because it can’t make any
changes on what’s happening.
Art analysis can be fun when you are creative,
you can think of many events, meanings, possibilities based on a piece of art
work. But there is no right or wrong answer on how you analyse the art works,
as long as it makes sense.
