Saturday, April 30, 2011

Twisty Personality

I felt really shocked when I saw works of art in Singapore Art’s Museum. I have to see all the works in Singapore Art’s Museum were totally different from that in my home town’s museum. In China’s museums, I usually see exquisite ceramics and distinguished Chinese mountains-and-waters paintings. However, the works that I saw in Singapore Art’s Museum should reflect humans’ twisty personalities. Some artists use many skins of mice or snakes to cover a medium high column, and they made me feel sick. However, among all the works, what impressed me most was a video.
I did not see the video at the first sight; instead, I saw four pictures in a frame against the white wall. The four pictures all were Screenshots. Furthermore, they represented that a lady who worn a scarlet dress and whose facial expression was very strange. I did not really understand the works purpose, but by accident, I suddenly found there was a screen beside the wooden frame. After watching the video for a time, I realized the meaning of this work of art.
From the video, I could see the same lady in the picture worn a high-heel in her left foot (her high-heel had already broken). She stood on a smooth glass ground and the ground was full of smooth foams and surprising, she kept on walking on the glass. Therefore, she fell down on the ground again and again, but after each falling, she struggled to stand up and continued her walking and at the same time I can saw her face was dull as lead and her eyes were feeling listless. So, it was not hard to image how many wounds on her body, hence, I could not understand her purpose on doing this kind of thing. Anyhow, I felt really uncomfortable when I saw all of this. Moreover, in my own general view, I think this work of art wants to reveal some twisty personalities which are hidden in our mind but I could not really say out this.
All in all, this week’s tour to Singapore Art’s Museum and National Museum of Singapore really impressed me and made me calm down to ponder a lot about art and human personality.

2 comments:

  1. i agree with you. most times, we can feel what the artist want to convey through the art works, but we cannot speak it out clearly. maybe that is the magic of art- to express what cannot be done by words.

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  2. You are a borne artist, i think, I tried but failed to the works of arts you mentioned. Your explanation is quite reasonable and convincing. Thx

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