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Artist Statement

Raj Patel

Monday, Apr 11, 2016 - 10:18:02 pm

@ n1501790h

Team Members: Gekkie, Pin, Son Tra, Raj

Artist Statement:

Bijinga is term used to describe pictures that contain beautiful in Japanese art. The type of print for these pieces of art are called Ukiyo-e, which are woodblock prints. These pieces were meant to focus on the beauty of women during the time, hence the meaning of Binjinga. Women were depicted in a mysterious Read more →

Categories: Proj 2 - Team 4
Below are my edits and further thoughts about this project: Bijinga is a term used to describe pictures that contain beautiful what? in Japanese art. The type of print for these pieces of art are called Ukiyo-e, which are woodblock prints. Bijinga were also done in other mediums. So, do you want to mention this or say that ukiyo-e is the most popular medium to be used for bijinga? These pieces were meant to focus on the beauty of women during the time, hence the meaning of Binjinga--repetitious? Women were depicted in a mysterious way: The artists of these Bijingas had the faces of the women either angled or partly covered. The backgrounds were flat to emphasize the women in the pictures. One artist who was known for creating his own bijingas was Yoshu Chikanobu. What do you mean by his own bijinga? He created a series of Bijingas, which included 50 prints. This group of prints were known as Shin Bijin. What does Shin Bijin mean? Learning from artists whose works included Bijingas, Chikanobu adapted his own style of depicting women. His prints had women who were taller and thinner that recreated interest in these prints like before? or more than before? Why are these women taller and thinner? During the time of creating Dancing with Fan, (italics for titles of artworks) Japan was going through major changes because of its integration with the rest of the world. There was western influences that were affecting Japanese art and Chikanobu included them in this Bijinga. He was using more vibrant colors compared to before. What is only the colors? What about clothing, hairstyles, accoutrements? Our response to the piece by Chikanobu was to include more relevant objects in the Bijinga that shows how women have changed over the years. Women were always dressed in similar traditional clothing but today women are seen wearing much more than just traditional clothing. Today, women are dressing in suits because they are out there in the workforce and hold jobs and careers that are equal to men. They also wear casual clothing as well because of their balanced lifestyle between working and enjoying life. Like your classmate, I too am wondering if clothes alone speaks about equality...

Histories of Art II: Bosom Buddies Reflection

Evangeline Ng

Thursday, Apr 07, 2016 - 02:49:00 pm

@ Evangeline Ng

Revised comments after presentation: “How do we know that FHM women choose to be on the magazine cover? Is it a general statement?”

Our group member, Jia xian proposed to use this ambiguity and match it with the ambiguity of the origin of religion. So we propose that the woman’s sexuality a man made construct, just like how religion Read more →

Categories: #bosombuddies | Journal
Quick response: don't you think you need the tree? Even the sculpture made in 1969 has the tree behind. Otherwise, you cannot call her a Yakshi. She is just any generic Indian goddess. Also, are you specifically using the image in the ACM to do the face? Are you superimposing Naomi Neo onto her? More later.
Response to the thesis: I am having trouble trying to wrap my mind around the following parallelisms: "The status of a goddess as a divine being versus man-made construct, reflects modern-day ambiguity of sexual empowerment versus exploitation." Yes, they are both opposites, but I find it hard to see their relationship to each other. Regarding the image and the artist statement: Because you have "removed her from her traditional context," she could just about represent any South Asian goddess. Is this an intended point?

Final Project Proposal

Isabella

Wednesday, Apr 06, 2016 - 08:49:40 pm

@ bella's

Group members: Darren, Feli, Sarah, Isabella

Topic: Nihonga Japanese Screen Painting

Chosen Artifact

Four Seasons with Sun and Moon, as seen in the National Museum of Singapore, “Treasures from the British Museum”.

Visual Analysis

Both screens have subject matters of nature and landscape: trees in different seasons, hills and valleys ‘framing’ the trees, grass, flowers. Golden frame. Each screen is divided into 2 ‘scenery’. First image: winter Read more →
Categories: Journal
Interesting idea! I never knew about this 50-year relationship. 1. What else is being done for the celebrations? How does this screen fit into that? Are all the celebrations about let's forget the past and focus on the present and the future? 2. What are the seasons in Singapore? How do people view the landscape in Singapore? In the other words, the ultimate goal or function of your screen is interesting but we need to think more about this relationship as well as the subject matter on the screens.

Team SHINGAPORU: Research and Practice Project Plan

Feliciana Natali

Tuesday, Apr 05, 2016 - 11:26:04 am

@ Feligood

Topic: Nihonga Japanese Screen Painting

Chosen Artifact

Four Seasons with Sun and Moon, as seen in the National Museum of Singapore, “Treasures from the British Museum”.

Visual Analysis

Both screens have subject matters of nature and landscape: trees in different seasons, hills and valleys ‘framing’ the trees, grass, flowers. Golden frame. Each screen is divided into 2 Read more →
Categories: Team Shingaporu
Why is the painting folded? What is the function of this painting? What is it's size? What is the medium? (apart from digital). Is this a brochure? A small-scale souvenir?

Final Project Proposal

Darrenjh

Monday, Apr 04, 2016 - 11:29:58 pm

@ Darrenjh

Team: Ho Jian Hunt, Feliciana, Sarah and Isabella

Topic: Nihonga Japanese Screen Painting

Chosen Artifact

Four Seasons with Sun and Moon, as seen in the National Museum of Singapore.

Visual Analysis

Both screens have subject matters of nature and landscape: trees in different seasons, hills and valleys ‘framing’ the trees, grass, flowers. Golden frame. Each screen is divided into 2 ‘scenery’. First Read more →
Categories: Journal
It would be easier if your group could have made a category so that I can follow your progress on the same page. Now, my comments are dispersed across many blogs.

The Tranny Diaries

Iskandar Ruhaizat

Monday, Apr 04, 2016 - 01:36:13 am

@ Sang Musang

Chosen subject: Chinese Buddhism

Group Mates: Christy Stephanie, Iskandar Ruhaizat, Juliana Ang, Raiza Feroz

Museum Visited: Asian Civilisation Museum

Chosen Object:

Research:

We decided to appropriate Guanyin as we felt that the issue on gender identity is even more pronounced now than ever; Guanyin is the perfect embodiment to present this situation. Facing stigma due to their gender orientation, transexuals (mainly East Asian) Read more →

Categories: The Tranny Diaries
What a fascinating project! I appreciate the case studies of previous visual responses. But, none of them seem to be specifically about highlighting the challenges that transexuals face everyday. Please give us more research about how transexuals turn to Guanyin in East Asia (a very big place). What about the life of transexuals in Singapore? The layered image looks great, except that I don't understand it...

Histories of Art II: Visual Response Proposal

Alfred Yeo

Sunday, Apr 03, 2016 - 09:55:24 pm

@ alfredoodles

Chosen subject: Indian Buddhism

Group Mates: Chio Jo Inng, Alfred Yeo, Evangeline Ng, Lu Jia Xian

Museum Visited: Asian Civilisation Museum Chosen Object: Gateway Bracket with four shalabhanjikas

Some cheeky snapchats I took when we visited the ACM! 😛

“Wanna be on top”- America’s next top model reference, haha.

You can identify Yakshi by her huge bosom, curvy figure and excessive pieces of jewellery.

We decided Read more →

Categories: #bosombuddies | Journal
Interesting visual response. Good find for the case study--Could it also be a birthing position? Have other contemporary artists responded to your issue? (no necessarily through the same object, but the same point you are trying to make) So, in other words, your main point is to convey the many powers of a female body? To displace the modern/contemporary emphasis on sexuality? What is FHM? Do all covers of the FHM look the same? Do a visual analysis/comparison of FHM covers from Jan-April 2016.

Visual Response Proposal

Chio Jo Inng

Sunday, Apr 03, 2016 - 09:24:25 pm

@ J O

Chosen subject: Indian Buddhism

Group Mates: Chio Jo Inng, Alfred Yeo, Evangeline Ng, Lu Jia Xian

Museum Visited: Asian Civilisation Museum Chosen Object: Gateway Bracket with four shalabhanjikas

Identified by her bosom and buttocks, the person identified in the sculpture is Yakshi.

We decided to appropriate this particular sculpture that we saw at the Asian Civilisation Museum.

Yakshi was traditionally considered a goddess of Read more →

Categories: #bosombuddies | Journal
It would be easier for me to track your project and my comments if all of your posts were in one category.
Sorry! I just realised that your group does have a category called #bosombuddies"

Queries about final project

Andrew Wong

Thursday, Mar 31, 2016 - 07:57:18 pm

@ Ola Señorita

So my group (Ziyu, Chenyue, Fern and I) have chosen this particular ceramic as our main object.

This is a Chinese ceramic that was produced in the JingDeZhen kilns during the Qing dynasty, and was probably made for people higher up the social ladder such as emperors.

After researching, we found 4 main characteristics about this ceramic that we can come Read more →

Categories: Final project
To add on for the post: We found that Jingdezhen kilns supplied local and oversea ceramics(Asia & Europe). They learnt about the culture and customs from those regions and customized their design of the pattern on the ceramics to further meet their needs. This dish we selected was carefully designed to meet the taste of the emperor/royalty with various Chinese flower & bird elements and meanings behind them. One of our possible plan is to research on how Jingdezhen catered to needs for people from different cultures and perhaps created a visual respond to a public figure.
Response to Andrew's post: this looks like an interesting object. *Why this object and not something else? *You have made 4 interesting observations about this object. Perhaps these are the reasons why you chose it? It encompasses so many complexities? *As I mentioned to Fern yesterday, I am not sure what is Christian about this ceramic. Please specify what the Western influence is. What tells us that it was catered to the Qing emperor? What are some Western "imitations?" Out of these four observations, which one do you want to focus on? We don't have time to do all four.
Response to Chenyue: *your plan sounds great but it is too grand. So, choose between catering to the emperor or catering for the export market? *How have other artists responded to Chinese ceramics? What is your case study? Or, how have other artists responded to the point you are trying to make? Your team needs to make a category: To keep track of how the project evolves to keep my comments in one place so that all team members see my comments to keep all team members conversations between themselves and me in the same place

New project idea

Gekkie

Wednesday, Mar 30, 2016 - 10:25:29 pm

@ 風鳴る翼

Group members: Gek, Raj, Pin, Son Tra

After some discussion and today’s lecture, our group have decided to change our visual respond to bijinga where not only in bijinga, many of the subject matter is females during that day. in the original bijinga, females are depicted shy, and not showing their face fully but having a sensual posture. however, they are still pretty well Read more →

Categories: Proj 2 - Team 4
Interesting--how have other artists responded to images of bijinga? When you say modern context, are you referring to Japan or Singapore? Curious: what was your original project?
our previous idea was the previous post by Pin, regarding the byobu
Thanks. Is there a way for your group to create a category so that all posts regarding your group is in one place? Otherwise, your team and I cannot see the train of thought.
Okay noted! i have created a new category called "Proj 2 - Team 4" , my group will be posting under this tag :)