Create a film festival for a chosen movie director. Extract a theme that ties together all of the director’s selected films and create a cohesive visual system through a variety materials.
Showcase Japanese film director, Akira Kurosawa’s most idiosyncratic movies, including Ikiru (1952), Seven Samurai (1954), Throne of Blood (1957), The Bad Sleep Well (1960), Yojimbo (1961). The visual execution is based on the director’s quirky and personal take onlife and his constant theme: evil overwhelms the good in human nature, leading to defeatand hopelessness.
Create a film festival for a chosen movie director. Extract a theme that ties together all of the director’s selected films and create a cohesive visual system through a variety materials.
Showcase Japanese film director, Akira Kurosawa’s most idiosyncratic movies, including Ikiru (1952), Seven Samurai (1954), Throne of Blood (1957), The Bad Sleep Well (1960), Yojimbo (1961). The visual execution is based on the director’s quirky and personal take onlife and his constant theme: evil overwhelms the good in human nature, leading to defeatand hopelessness.
Show how painting can explore the abstraction of the concrete drawing and the concretion of abstract drawing.
The idea of the artwork is from my commute between home and school in Taipei. I saw many sensory scenes happening on the highway. I want to record moments and use textures and colors to present my reflection of the commute.
Highway: The Reflection / 2011 / Acrylic / 65 x 35 in