Chiho Aoshima – City Glow Mountain Whisper series was part of the London Underground’s “Platform for Art painted by Chiho Aoshima().She is intention to show the viewer as a random angle from night of view in the modern city.
Aoshima used some strong contrast between areas of light and dark in each building with sweetly feminine faces, it helps to create the illusion of three-dimensional forms existing in space. In the other side, each of building with antenna were represent different robot, that is to say, she wants to express the relationship between technology and nature. It was expressed crowded atmosphere. Moreover, all the elements are sweet, colorful, girly, but there are some issues of color, and composition. The colors of each face create a sense of scary with different gray hues and different scales between plants, animals and architectures. According to her other art works, and Japanese pop culture sensibilities, she uses to focus on nature, death, free and light, and also interested in connecting to people’s daily lives and common experience as the main topic she was painted. In the other hand, the scale of buildings are much bigger than plants, it to emphasize that in matter addresses modernization and conditions of globalization by exploring the overlapping of the artificial an the natural.
In conclusion, though the City Glow Chiho Aoshima intense show up the nature environment was effect on technology in the contemporary society.
The Cherrygirls vs. Contamination(Figure2), is Camille Rose Garcia’s wood painting “The Happiest Place on Earth” series art work in , and it had been talked about the saddest place on earth better than the happies. She borrows idea from the oeuvre of Surrealism and laced with the personal memories in her childhood that recall frequent trips to Disneyland and visits to her grandparent’s home. In her art work, she use to express the feeling about sweet and sour, grotesque and beautiful, nostalgic and ominous.
In this painting, there nine terrible puppets are dancing and playing in the muddy black millipede, slowly through a series of toxic waste. Smoke and smog from a nearby factory pollute the air, and the tree of small clusters gradually into the distance. A chubby pink pig ironically assumes that predatory role the big bad wolf standing in front of the factory a mischievous look pleasant goat-Cherrygirls. In the top right corner, “Help”is spelled out in black, cloudy, as it disappear in the rest of the polluted skies. Besides, she employed the the spectrum of primary and secondary colours: yellow, orange, red, blue as the main colour and gray huges as the background.
Overall, Although the painting expresses the dangerous pollution environmental effect, In the theme of the painting, including industrial, capitalism, pollution, and the characteristics of the media image of deception, clearly connect Garcia’s personal experience of growing up in southern California.
The sleepless (1997,figure3) is Yoshitomo Nara’s acrylic painting, and it has been talked about a lonely baby with hopeless appearance.
In this art work represent a baby with short hair standing alone and staring into the sky. Nara used the black background let the character standing out from the canvas. However, from baby’s eyes without any hope and happiness, it seems she is showing to viewer her anger or dissatisfied. In most all of Nara’s works, he use elements—sweet, saturated color; cartoon-like.forms; and over-scaled heads with wide.eyes and subtly distorted baby faces to express the effects from external factors. Forthermore, these works also present Japanese youths. They are drawings which ooze cynicism and exhibit a state of distress that is believed to represent their inner feelings and attitudes towards the society that surrounds them. However, while on the surface the artwork may look simple and childlike, each artist uses these simple images to create a more convoluted world that echoes the complex world we live in. As Ali’s round-headed figures demonstrate of racism and oppression, and today’s violent society. Sleepless night baby appears to be a child mind, their insight into everything. They are pure and evil ,and they can see the world the most true side, with the appearance of the disdain and frowned.
In conclusion, Nara’s cutesy characters give insight to an often times troubled youth culture.
Westall High,(2014,figure 4) is Perter Stichbury’s oil painting, it shows to viewers about portrait works.
This art work shows to viewers the portrait of Ms.Robbins with black background. From this art work, Ms. Robbins is portrayed with an oval-faced blonde strange lady. According to this unique painting style, the characters’ face is uncommon, that is to say, the artist painted not only advantages but also drawbacks from the whole appearance of the characters. It might be conveying a kind of weird feeling .In color respect, even though the work illustrates the change of shades and stereoscopic effect, the simple line and flat coating color also provides uncomfortable feeling of separation between heard and body. All most all his work though strange, because he is fascinated by society’s ongoing obsession with UFO phenomena. He paints historical UFO sightings, as well as portraits of the people who purportedly saw them.
To sum up, Perter Stichbury’s work are remarkable.