February 29, 2012

I want to strongly recommend The Walters Art Museum .It is a fantastic museum in Baltimore.There are many fantastic exhibitions availible now. If you have any interst, just go there and take a look.
1.Exploring Art of the Ancient Americas: The John Bourne Collection Gift
Sunday, February 12, 2012–Sunday, May 20, 2012
"135 artworks from cultures that rose and fell in Mexico, Central America and Andean South America from 1200 B.C.–A.D. 1530. Drawn from the collection of John Bourne recently gifted to the Walters."
2.Near Paris: The watercolors of leon Bonvin
Saturday, February 25, 2012–Sunday, May 20, 2012
He used watercolors of flowers, landscapes and moon lit scenes represent a distinctive contribution to the realist movement in mid-19th century France.

Link to the museum: http://thewalters.org/

February 15, 2012

Andy Warhol is my favorite pop artist; he was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. After a successful career as a commercial illustrator, Warhol became a renowned and sometimes controversial artist. His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, celebrity culture and advertisement. He worked in a range of mediums, including painting, sculpture, film, and music.

There are 3 famous works for him:

 

http://www.yoka.com/club/sstz/2011/1027573332.shtml

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campbell%27s_Soup_Cans

 

•                                                                    http://www.artchive.com/artchive/W/warhol.html

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

 

 Yu Minjun is one of my favorite Chinese artists.  He is best known for oil paintings depicting him in various settings, frozen in laughter.  He has also reproduced this signature image in sculpture, watercolor and prints. His piece Execution became the most expensive work ever by a Chinese contemporary artist, when sold in 2007 for £2.9 million pounds. I like his work because he has good structure and imagination.

http://www.sculpture.net/community/showthread.php?t=6497

                                          

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Execution_(painting)