Actually these are photography disguised as paintings. I have always wanted to paint but I lack the drawing skills so I try my best to create what I wish to do through the lens of my camera.
Most of these also exist in my abstract photography set because they are abstract by nature.
Untitled Abstract / 2009 / SML
間 Division / 2009 / SML
Abstract in C / 2009 / SML
Untitled Forms / 2006 / SML
Untitled Forms / 2008 / SML
Abstract in Beige / 2009 / SML
Abstract in G minor / 2009 / SML
Dots + Lines / 2007 / SML
Untitled Forms / 2009 / SML
Black Hole / 2009 / SML
Untitled Forms / 2009 / SML
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Monday, January 14, 2008
You can do it if you want to
When I first got into Yale, I didn't really know what I wanted to do. I studied pure science classes in high school and I was very good at it. I took science classes because the tests have absolute answers: if you put in the right answers, you get an A.
The problem with studying science in college is that I know that I can never be better than my sister. My sister is a genius. While I dominated the awards at high school, she swept them. Since she also went to Yale and was studying Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, I decided that I had to study something else.
Originally I picked architecture, because it appeared to combine art and science, which is the synergetic focus that I have always been interested in. Before the class of 1999, all architecture students were required to take Basic Drawing from the School of Art. They dropped that requirement for my year, but I thought that it must be a good thing so I took it.
I had zero art education before I went to Yale, so when I was faced with charcoal and paper, I was fairly scared. Most students attending the class had extensive art education, and have impeccable skills. I didn't really know what to do with my materials. When questioned, my professor just told me to draw what you see.
I had never touched a charcoal in my life, and I spent my whole semester trying. Looking back, it appears that I am most satisfied with work that I really put my heart to. I don't think that I can draw still. But it appears that if spend enough time on anything, I can do it.
Here are some of my favorites from the old days:
Yale School of Drama
Still Life
Remember, you can do it if you want to.
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Wednesday, October 31, 2007
open iPhone / 2007 / SML
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Sunday, August 26, 2007
SML Fine Art ( 美術 / 美术 / ファインアート)
SML Fine Art = Small + Medium + Large + Fine Art;
SML Fine Art= Small + Medium + Large + Architecture + Cinematography + Creativivity + Dance + Design + Drawing + Film + Graffiti + Intermedia + Literature + Media + Music + Painting + Photography + Printmaking + Scupture + Textiles + Theatre + Writing;
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- Yellow = Magic / Magical
- White = Pure
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- Inner circle = Base / Core / Interior / Internal
- Middle circle = Bridge / Transformation / Transition
- Outer circle = Exterior / External / Public Facing
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Wikipedia: Fine art
Fine art refers to arts that are concerned with a limited number of visual and performing art forms, including painting, sculpture, dance, theatre, architecture and printmaking. Schools, institutes, and other organizations still use the term to indicate a traditional perspective on the art forms, often implying an association with classic or academic art.
The word "fine" does not so much denote the quality of the artwork in question, but the purity of the discipline. This definition tends to exclude visual art forms that could be considered craftwork or applied art, such as textiles. The more recent term visual arts is widely considered to be a more inclusive and descriptive phrase for today's variety of current art practices, and for the multitude of mediums in which high art is now more widely recognized to occur. Ultimately, the term fine in 'fine art' comes from the concept of final cause, or purpose, or end, in the philosophy of Aristotle. The final cause of fine art is the art object itself; it is not a means to another end except perhaps to please those who behold it.
An alternative, if flippant, reference to "fine art," is capital "A" art, or, art with a capital "A."
The term is still often used outside of the arts to denote when someone has perfected an activity to a very high level of skill. For example, one might metaphorically say that "Pelé took football to the level of a fine art."
That fine art is seen as being distinct from applied arts is largely the result of an issue raised in Britain by the conflict between the followers of the Arts and Crafts Movement, including William Morris, and the early modernists, including Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group. The former sought to bring socialist principles to bear on the arts by including the more commonplace crafts of the masses within the realm of the arts, while the modernists sought to keep artistic endeavour exclusive, esoteric, and elitist.
Confusion often occurs when people mistakenly refer to the Fine Arts but mean the Performing Arts (Music, Dance, Drama, etc). However, there is some disagreement here, as, for example, at York University, Fine Arts is a faculty that includes the "traditional" fine arts, design, and the "Performing Arts".
An academic course of study in fine art may include a Master of Fine Arts degree.
美術
美術是一種藝術，一般指除了建築藝術之外的造型藝術的通稱，一般分為兩大類，即：純美術和工藝美術兩類.
Wikipedia: 美术
美术是一种艺术， 一般指除了建筑艺术之外的造型艺术的通称，一般分为两大类，即：純美術和工藝美術兩類.
Wikipedia: ファインアート
ファインアート （fine art, fine arts）は、芸術的価値を専らにする活動や作品を指す概念。 日本語の芸術とほぼ同義であるが、とくに応用芸術、大衆芸術と区別して純粋芸術を意味する場合に使われる。芸術の中でも美術について使われることが多く、この場合、応用美術に対して純粋美術とも。
ファインアートは、ハイカルチャーを構成する一部分である。ハイアート(high art)はファインアートとほぼ同義だが、ファインアートは応用芸術との対比で、ハイアートは大衆芸術との対比で使われることが多い。
代表的なファインアートは絵画、彫刻であり、これに対するイラストやデザイン、工芸と峻別されるが、20世紀最後の四半期以降、その領域は互いに浸透し、区分は曖昧なものになりつつある。
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