Dada

Dada

Dada began around 1916 in Zurich in Switzerland and by time, the Dada started to spread in France, Germany, U.S and Spain. The group who invented the Dada was strongly anti-war and against the values that they believed led to the war. The Dadaists protested through art. The Dadaists said that once the culture had been stripped down it can be rebuilt and so they made a ‘chaos’ out of the World War I culture. For example, the Dadaists chose a urinal as fountain and put it on display.

The original Fountain by Marcel Duchamp

L.H.O.O.Q. (1919). Marcel Duchamp.















Reference: 

Art Smarts 4 Kids: Dadaism. 2013. Art Smarts 4 Kids: Dadaism. [ONLINE] Available at: http://artsmarts4kids.blogspot.com/2008/04/dadaism.html. [Accessed 15 May 2013].

 

Cubism

Cubism

In the beginning of the twentieth century, the cubists were interested in the African and Native American art and that how cubism formed. It all began in France in 1907 when Pablo Picasso and George Braque started to paint figures in a form of cubes, spheres, cones and other geometrical shapes. The cubists’ paintings are abstract such as Picasso’s painting ‘The Guitar Player’; it is very difficult to notice that there is a person. At first, the cubists used few colours in their paintings that were brown, grey and blue but Picasso started to use the papier colles in his paintings instead of colours.

 The Guitar Player

Pablo Picasso

  Girl with Mandolin

Pablo Picasso

 

Reference:

Art Smarts 4 Kids: Cubism. 2013. Art Smarts 4 Kids: Cubism. [ONLINE] Available at: http://artsmarts4kids.blogspot.com/2008/09/cubism.html. [Accessed 15 May 2013].

 

Contemporary Artist

Zhang Jingna

Zhang Jingna known as ‘Zemotion’ is a fashion and beauty photographer. She was born on the 4^th May of 1988 in Beijing and she moved at the age of eight in Singapore, where she attened Haig Girls’ School. At age fourteen, Jingna broke a national record of air rifle then she joined the air rifle team. Six years later she broke the record of the commonwealth shooting championships in women’s 10m Air Rifle in Melbourne in 2005 and in 2006 she won a bronze medal in the event of commonwealth games. Two years later, she left Raffles Girls’ School so she can learn fashion design in Lasalle College of the Arts. At age eighteen, she picked up a camera and started to like taking photos and the photography became part of her. In 2007, she left the Lasalle College of the Arts and the rifle team to pursue photography full time. Her work have been seen in Elle, Harper’s Bazaar, Asia’s Next top model, Photo Vogue by Vogue Italia , L’officiel and even her commercial clients that are Mercedes Benz, Montblanc, Lancome, TRESemme, Pond’s and Canon. This success of her work brought her to shoot in London, Paris, Tokyo and fashion capitals of the world. In 2010, Jingna’s work were displayed in large scale exhibition in Singapore’s premium shopping district .Late May, another gallery solo show ‘Angel Dreams’ was exhibited at Japan creative centre (Singapore) and her photographs were famous because she took photos of a famous Japanese musician Sugizo. Jingna was invited to photograph Sugizo in the Luna Sea’s Tokyo concert. She even photographed a Korean celebrity Rain in 2011. She is influenced by other photographers such as Peter Lindbergh, John William Waterhouse, Yoshitaka Amano and others. Some of Jingna’s works were influenced from the Pre-Raphaelites paintings. Jingna love to work in quite places like Kyoto and Lijianga. 

Some  Zhang Jingna work: 

References:

Zhang Jingna - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 2013. Zhang Jingna - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. [ONLINE] Available at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhang_Jingna#Exhibitions. [Accessed 14 May 2013].

Zhang Jingna Photography | Los Angeles | About. 2013. Zhang Jingna Photography | Los Angeles | About. [ONLINE] Available at: http://zhangjingna.com/bio.html. [Accessed 14 May 2013].