art history 312

Art History, BVA312.

Contemporary art in southeast Asia and china.

Southeast Asia - is a landmass that covers 4.5 million km 2.

use keywords in my own practice and look up galleries and artist that relates to me and my practice.

Name: Farzana Urmi 

Media:The concept of rationality in contemporary thoughts 

Theme: Portraiture

Relates to my own works: Using contemporary thoughts within portraiture works.

Name: Yu Youhan.

Media: Portriture.

Theme: "Abstract is a subjective conceptualizing from objective things, and Yu has been showed his unique expression skills of abstraction in a picture from very early on. His abstract paintings are with very strong abstractness, while the figurative elements are often integrated into the paintings."

Relates to my own works: Abstracting my portraits.

Name: Claire Tabouret

Media: portraiture and human figures

Theme: her works relates to the action of doing.

Relates to my own works: abstract portraiture and human figures

Name: Zhang Huan

Media: Sculptural figures and portraits

Theme: : "consisted of sculptures and paintings that reference the history of his native China, from significant political, intellectual, and religious figures to anonymous portraits and landscape scenes. "

Relates to my own works: Strong relation to figurative pieces.

Name: Wang Ziwei

Media: painting portraiture and objects

Theme: Pop art influence

Relates to my own works: Different styled portraits.

Vietnam and Thailand. - COUNTRIES/REGIONS TO RESEARCH FOR BLOG TASK

Vietnamese artist...

Name: Dang, Vu Ha

Media: portraiture

Theme: modern and contemporary artist

Relates to my own works: morphed his style of portraits becoming very abstract.

Gallery: Nguyen Art gallery 

Festival: Hue art festival Vietnam - celebration of culture history art art in the capital of Vietnam.

Name: Paitoon Jumee

Media: portraiture

Theme: "contemporary Thai artist known for his portrayals of the female face."

Relates to my own works: His different portrayals of the female figure and portraits.

Gallery: Tusk Gallery 

Festival: ART FAIR Taste Yamu - this is an event for local artist to showcase their works.

REFRENCES

•https://theculturetrip.com/asia/china/articles/art-metropolis-shanghai-s-10-best-contemporary-art-galleries/

•https://www.christies.com/features/10-Chinese-contemporary-artists-you-need-to-know-8504-1.aspx