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 YOYOYO GUYS!  I HAVE ALREADY GOT 100 PICTURES READY FOR MY PROJECT AND SHARED THEM WITH JOHNNY IN MY INDEPENDENT STUDY. HOWEVER, I HAVE NOT SORTED THEM OFF INTO THE ALBUMS ON FLICKERS. I WILL DO THAT ONCE I GET ALL OF THEM AT THE END OF THIS TERM. SOME OF THOSE PICTURES ARE GOING TO BE IN SOME ALBUMS THAT ARE ALREADY BEING CREATED, BUT I ADDED ON SOME NEW ALBUMS.  LET’S SEE SOME OF THE NEW ONES.    ALBUM #1: LANDSCAPE IT IS SO RARE TO SEE SOME FANCY SPOTS AROUND IN APPLETON, A RURAL PLACE, SO THE BEAUTY OF NATURE WOULD BE THE MOST SUITABLE THING TO TAKE PICTURES WITH. IN THIS ALBUM, SKY, TREES, SUNSET, AND SUNRISE ARE MY MAIN CHARACTERS. I DO ENJOY A LOT WHEN I AM SEEKING A GREAT TIME AND SPOT TAKING PICTURES OF THE SKY; STARING AT THE SKY SEE THE MOVEMENT OF THE CLOUD REALLY CALMS ME DOWN. AND THE LOVELY SUNSET MAKES ME TAKE SOME COOL PICTURES.    ALBUM #2: DAT MONKEY  I CONSIDER MYSELF AS A BIG MONKEY. BASED ON THE REVOLUTION THEORY, HUMAN BEIN...

            FOR THE ADVANCED NEW MEDIA IN ART SPRING TERM 2023, I AM GOING TO CONTINUE TO PROVIDE PEOPLE MY AESTHETIC PERSPECTIVE TO APPRECIATE THIS WORLD THROUGH THE LENS OF MY IPHONE. ALL MY WORK IN THIS 10-WEEK PERIOD WILL BE UPLOADED ON THE FLICKER FINALLY; AND I WILL SORT THEM OFF INTO 10 ALBUMS, WHICH MEANS 1 ALBUM PER WEEK. IN EACH ALBUM, THERE SHOULD BE AROUND 5-10 PHOTOGRAPHS. ALSO, I WOULD LOVE TO MAKE A BIG THICK PHOTO BOOK THROUGH THE BOOKWRIGHT WITH THE PHOTOGRAPH THAT I TOOK THIS TERM. THE BOOK SHOULD BE AROUND 50-80 PAGES, IT REALLY DEPENDS ON  HOW MANY PHOTOS I AM SATISFIED WITH. BUT THE PAGE NUMBERS WILL BE AROUND THAT AMOUNT. FOR THE REFERENCE ARTIST, I WOULD SAY THERE IS NO ONE THAT I AM MIMICKING, LIKE I SAID I AM PROVIDING PEOPLE MY PERSPECTIVE IN MY WAY IN MY STYLE. BUT IF I NEED TO SAY ONE, THAT MAY BE ANDY WARHOL SINCE I ENJOYED HIS PHOTOGRAPHY A LOT IN THE PAST AND HAVE SEEN TONS OF HIS WORK BEFORE, MAYBE YOU WILL FIND SOM...

I REALLY ENJOYED LISTENING TO THE ARTIST TALK BY GREAT ARTIST ANDREW NORRIS. HE CREATES THIS ARTWORK BY TAKING ADVANTAGE OF OIL PAINT’S LUMINOSITY TO CONSTRUCT ALTERNATIVE REALITIES IN SPACE AND USE SATURATED COLORS AND THIN GLAZES TO CREATE SEMI-REALISTIC FIGURES THAT EVOKE A SENSE OF HYPER-MASCULINITY AND SEXUALITY. ADVERTISEMENTS, ESPECIALLY ONES UTILIZING TRENDY CELEBRITIES, HAVE BEEN THE MAIN INFLUENCE IN HIS RECENT WORK THAT COMBINES THE EXPLORATION OF COMIC BOOK ICONOGRAPHY. ALSO, HE IS INTERESTED IN IMAGES OF DESIRE IN A WAY THAT MIMICS THE FORMAT OF HIGH FASHION PHOTOGRAPHY WHILE AMPLIFYING THE MASCULINE IDEAL. AS HE GOT SOME DEFECT IN HIS BODY, HE CLAIMED THAT “THROUGH THOSE PAINTINGS, I HOPE TO UNDERSTAND AND ARTICULATE MY OWN DESIRE TOWARD THE MASCULINE IDEAL BODY.” THERE IS A RELATIONSHIP OF DICHOTOMY IN IDEAS ABOUT MALE BEAUTY, BOTH OF EXISTING IN THE WORLD OF IT AND OUTSIDE OF IT. HIS PAINTINGS HAVE THEIR OWN LOGIC AND RULES, MAINTAINING THEIR OWN BELIEVABL...

I ENJOYED THE ARTIST TALK BY AMERICAN MULTIDISCIPLINARY ARTIST ALEXANDRA BELL, SHE CREATES HER ARTWORK THROUGH LARGE-SCALE PASTE-UPS OF NEW YORK TIMES ARTICLES EDITED TO CHALLENGE THE PRESUMPTION OF "OBJECTIVITY" IN NEWS MEDIA. USING MARGINALIA, ANNOTATION, REDACTION, AND REVISIONS TO LAYOUT AND IMAGES, BELL EXPOSES RACIAL AND GENDER BIASES EMBEDDED IN PRINT NEWS MEDIA. AS A QUOTE BY MICHAEL OMI & HOWARD WINANT: “ THE POWER OF THE MEDIA LIES NOT ONLY IN THEIR ABILITY TO REFLECT THE DOMINANT RACIAL IDEOLOGY BUT IN THEIR CAPACITY TO DEFINE IT IN THE FIRST PLACE.” NEWS SHOULD BE REAL AND RESPECT THE REALITY, MUCH NEWS APPARENTLY IS NOT, HOWEVER.  BELL USES HER CRITICAL THINKING PROCESS TO EDIT THE NEWSPAPER TO CLAIM THE RIGHTEOUSNESS. I APPRECIATE HER CRITICAL THINKING ABILITY, SHE COULD DISTINGUISH THE LIE FROM THE FAKE NEWS, AND JUDGE THE NEWS OBJECTIVELY. AND THE WAY SHE CORRECTS THE MISTAKE ON THE NEWSPAPER PROVIDES PEOPLE A SENSE OF BEAUTY BECAUSE THE PROCESS SHE CORREC...

  AS I WOULD LIKE TO SHARE MY PERSPECTIVE IN APPRECIATING THIS WORLD, MY PROJECT FOR THIS TERM IS WORKING ON THE FLICKER POST AS THE CONTINUATION OF THE WORK WE DID LAST TERM. ON MY FLICKER SITE, THERE ARE 283 PHOTOS BEEN SORTED OUT INTO 21 ALBUMS; 293 PHOTOS AND 15 ALBUMS ARE THE WORK I DID THIS TERM. THOSE PHOTOS DEMONSTRATE THE BEAUTY IN MANY DIFFERENT LOCATIONS IN THIS WORLD: THERE ARE PICTURES FROM CITIES IN CHINA, JAPAN, CANADA, AND THE US. I CATEGORIZED MY ALBUM WITH SOME MAIN FEATURES AND STORIES IN THE PHOTOS.   AND LET ME INTRODUCE THE NEW CREATED ALBUMS BELOW:    VLONE: VLONE MEANS WE ARE ALONG, IN WHICH THERE IS A GREAT CONTRAST BETWEEN THE WE AND ALONG. NORMALLY, WHEN PEOPLE GATHER TOGETHER, THEY WILL NOT FEEL ALONE, HOWEVER AS WE NOWADAYS LIVE WITH PEOPLE BUT STILL FEEL ALONE SOMETIMES. IN THIS ALBUM, I ADDED SOME PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE SCENE THAT I SPEND ALONG IN THIS SOCIETY.                    ...

MY ARTIST REPORT PROJECT FOR THIS TERM IS NOT ON THE LIST THAT PROFESSOR JOHN PROVIDE US BECAUSE I HAVE FOUND AN GREAT ARTIST WHO IS WORTH LETTING OUR CLASSMATES GET FAMILIAR WITH. WHEN I WENT TO THE ART GALLERY MILWAUKEE, I SEE THE ARTWORK  CRYING GIRL,  I WAS REALLY THRILLED AND CHECKED ON THE BACKGROUND OF THAT ARTWORK AND THE ARTIST I FEEL LIKE THAT THIS ARTIST IS THE ONE I COULD DO MY REPORT ON. IN MY REPORT, THE SUPERSTAR IS ONE OF THE FOUNDERS IN THE POP ART— ROY LICHTENSTEIN. POP ART IS AN ART MOVEMENT THAT EMERGED IN THE 1950S AND FLOURISHED IN THE 1960S IN AMERICA AND BRITAIN, DRAWING INSPIRATION FROM SOURCES IN POPULAR AND COMMERCIAL CULTURE. DIFFERENT CULTURES AND COUNTRIES CONTRIBUTED TO THE MOVEMENT DURING THE 1960S AND 70S ROY IS A KEY FIGURE IN THE POP ART MOVEMENT AND BEYOND, ROY LICHTENSTEIN GROUNDED HIS PROFOUNDLY INVENTIVE CAREER IN IMITATION—BEGINNING BY BORROWING IMAGES FROM COMIC BOOKS AND ADVERTISEMENTS IN THE EARLY 1960S, AND EVENTUALLY ENCOMPASSING TH...

HERE AS I PROMISED IN PROJECT UPDATE NO1, I WENT TO THE ART GALLERY MILWAUKEE TO GATHER SOME INSPIRATION AND THE MATERIAL FOR MY PHOTOSTREAM. THERE ARE SOME REALLY THOUGHT-PROVOKING AND INTERESTING ARTWORKS THAT STIMULATE MY IDEA OF CREATING AN ALBUM, IN WHICH TO POST UP SOME PICTURES I TOOK IN THE GALLERY (NOT ONLY THE ART GALLERY MILWAUKEE). AT THIS MOMENT, I HAD FINISHED UP POSTING THE GALLERY ALBUM, IN WHICH INCLUDED IN THE ARTWORKS IN THE TORONTO ART GALLERY AND SOME OF THE SIDE ART PRODUCTS I HAVE IN MY LIFE.   I BELIEVE IN THE CYCLIC “RESURRECTION OF DIFFERENCE”, BECAUSE FROM MY PERSPECTIVE, THE WORLD IS CHANGING, AND EVERYTHING IS DEVELOPED TOWARDS ITS OWN DIRECTION, HOWEVER, EVERYTHING MUTUAL RESTRAIN EACH OTHER THROUGH THE PROCESS OF DEVELOPMENT. AND THE DIFFERENCE OCCURS WHEN THINGS DEVELOPED IN DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS BUT DUE TO THE MUTUAL RESTRAIN, THE DEVELOPMENT OF DIFFERENCE WILL STOP AT THE PEAK, AND DEVELOP TOWARD THE WAY BACKWARD. THEN, STOP AT THE PEAK AND DEVELOP ...