Days previously, my classmates and I went to Singapore Art Museum and National Museum of Singapore for a learning journey. To be frank, most of the works on exhibition are beyond my understanding, especially something like the big wings made of thousands of slippers, which is a little ridiculous according to my viewpoint. However, I think I learned something from my visit to Singapore Art Museum.
Despite the fact that most of the art works are not consistent with my taste, I marveled at some interesting designs. The first artwork on display is one of them. It is a bookshelf full of books in the form of cylinder and about one third of it is opened. When I put my head into the shelf, I surprisingly found that there was no bottom in the shelf! Then I instinctively looked up and found there was no top as well more surprisingly. After a second, I realized that there were two mirror at the top and bottom of the bookshelf respectively so that the image of the books could reflect again and again, thus, consequently, creating the look of no bottom.
Later during the visit, I saw some interesting and creative cups and saving boxes. They are very similar to the ones we use in our daily life, but there are some outstanding things as well. The piggy banks are in all kinds of strange shapes and the images on the cups perfectly add the artists’ inspirations to the works.
Compared to those abstract paintings and strange-shaped clothes, I think these common things are really the things that touch me. Although full of creations, they are common things in life, as if telling us that it is not impossible to become the artist of life, to design, create in life and to make our life more beautiful and fascinating.
The bookshelf was stunning really! Yes I also find that these common little things surprise and touch me most. There is a saying that" little is beautiful", which gives an impressive explanation to the feeling.
ReplyDeleteWhat a pity that I missed the bookshelf display! Still I can feel the emotion you guys felt, the feeling of being touched by endless knowledge. Arts enable us to think deeper and learn to criticize.
ReplyDeletethe bookshelf is also impressive for me. when i looked down into the hollow and stretched out my hand tryng to touch the books below, i felt i would fall over the edge. until i touched the mirror, i realized that it was not real.
ReplyDeleteI believe that we have the common sense towards art. I even took a photo with the wing-slippers thing before I realize that it was made up of slippers. Just as I will never understand Picasso, I will probably never understand SAM
ReplyDeleteWhat you have observed in SAM is called installation art. This form of art uses everyday objects to depict the artist's interpretation of the world he lives in.
ReplyDeletethe bookshelf is also one of the few pieces of art that i can find interesting. i hope i had seen much more things like the odd bookshelf, then our trip to the SAM could have been much more interesting!
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