We all the NUS SM3 batch 19th students went to the second learning journey this Wednesday. While visiting the art museum, I felt confused from the beginning to the end. I have no idea if it is true art, for as far as I could understand, there are only PS pictures in the ground floor and some bloody disgusting and meaningless works of ‘art’ in the upper two floor. Despite this journey proved again I am isolated with art, I have to talk some about this trip.
When I finished watching the meaningless pictures and went up to the second floor, I did not notice the book shelf at the left hand side corner. It was not until we went through that floor and sharing what we had seen that I knew there is a bottomless book shelf at the entrance, and I went back to see it. It was a normal round book shelf when I saw from far away, and when I walked nearby and look down, it has no bottom! Thousands of storeys filled with books are down there which made me feel if I jumped down, I would be falling and never touch the ground.
I think this book shelf reflects the knowledge; innocent people ignore the all of this, thinking they have known everything, just like I passed by the book shelf without noticing it and believed that I had seen all the things. As I did not know the secret of the book shelf until the very moment I looked down in the book shelf, only when people get down to learn the knowledge do they know how broad the sea of knowledge is. Just as Newton says, ‘I feel like being a kid picking shells on the beach of the sea of knowledge.’
i am so sorry that you would choose adjectives like disgusting and bloody to descirbe those works of art. i think as those arts have already at least been recognized by museum. they must have some value. it is not they that lack the value, but those who can not understand lack the ability to recogniaze the beauty of them
ReplyDeleteZhipeng talked about this as well, so I felt sorry that I din't notice this at all!
ReplyDeleteWell, in accordance with your describing, I seem to feel the power of knowledge and the importance of learning, endless learning!
You cannot judge a piece of work by its appearence. Remember the picture that is obviously made from PS. A person in pink was staightly added to a black-white picture. Though the appearence is not good, it is meaningful. In black-white part, a lot of people are about to be killed. While, the man in pink is wearing a nasty smile on his face instead of showing his sympathy. Does it show the same meaning with LUXUN's essay "MR.TengYe"?
ReplyDeleteIt is hard to say whether I have same feelings with you, but i surely knew that seeing these pictures, I really did not have a good mood. so i was curious about what states these artists were in, and in my opinion, they might be much more suffering.
ReplyDeleteArt is often controversial and difficult to fathom, particularly modern art - thhink Picasso. The disgusting and bloody images you saw perhaps were meant to shock and awe. If that was the artist's purpose, then the installation art piece would have achieved its puropose. The fact that you interpreted the book shelves with bottomless pit showed that you were reacting to what you saw; and I like what you said.
ReplyDeleteI think knowledge is infinite and we should keep on studying all our lives. The bookshelf on display explain this meaning very well. It reminds us to learn knowledge.
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