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[Museum walks] photo album: Museums in Melbourne, Australia
The National Gallery of Victoria, popularly known as the NGV, is an art museum in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 1861, it is Australia’s oldest, largest and most visited art museum. The National Gallery of Victoria houses an encyclopedic art collection across two sites: NGV International, located on St Kilda Road in the Melbourne Arts Precinct of Southbank, and the Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, located nearby … Continue reading [Museum walks] photo album: Museums in Melbourne, Australia
Snap short of visiting MONA, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
The Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) is an art museum located within the Moorilla winery on the Berriedale peninsula in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. It is the largest privately funded museum in Australia. The museum presents antiquities, modern and contemporary art from the David Walsh collection. Walsh has described the museum as a “subversive adult Disneyland.” MONA was officially opened on 21 January 2011. Along … Continue reading Snap short of visiting MONA, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
“Image Makers by Jean-Paul Goude exhibition in 21-21 Design Sight, Tokyo
The Art Impermanence by Samues Leung, 2015
The Art of Impermanence by Samues Leung, 2015 The research explores how an appreciation of the beauty of Japanese aesthetics and aspects of Zen philosophy may be used to consider ideas of impermanence in the art making process of fine art context. Included into the investigation are considerations of the ideas of “consciousness” and “minimalism”, which come directly from my interpretations of the universal ideas … Continue reading The Art Impermanence by Samues Leung, 2015
Journey on the Art of Permanence by Samues Leung 2015
This artwork portfolio created by Samues during his learning and travel in Singapore (studied in Nanyang Fine Art College and Le Salle Academic of Art) and the MFA program in RMIT, Melbourne, from 2013 to 2015. It consists of 11 projects including performative photos, installation art, water-color and oil painting etc. Continue reading Journey on the Art of Permanence by Samues Leung 2015
到訪第四屆全國中青年油画展(深圳)
The fourth National Youth and Middle-aged Oil painting Exhibition (SZ) March 2016 Continue reading 到訪第四屆全國中青年油画展(深圳)
Kansai & Seto Inland See in Art 2014 by Samues Leung
It was not until 2014 when I planned to stay for a longer while in the fascinating city Kyoto where I had been for a couple of times, trying to take a different, more comprehensive approach on my art journey. I am always interested in exploring more opportunities to learn and capture the sense of Wabi-Sabi and its philosophies that I want to employ and incorporate in my artwork. I believe … Continue reading Kansai & Seto Inland See in Art 2014 by Samues Leung
LITERATURE REVIEW – NOTES ON METAMODERNISM
Abstract Metamodernism was first introduced in 2010 by cultural theorists Timotheus Vermeulen and Robin van den Akker as a way to understand the current condition of human philosophy that has befallen us in the wake of the decline of postmodernism.[i] Alan Kirby says postmodernism is dead and buried. Many theorist and critics said postmodern is over because new generations of artists increasingly abandon the aesthetic … Continue reading LITERATURE REVIEW – NOTES ON METAMODERNISM
The Spirit of Art Deco (watercolor drawing on paper)
Art Deco style in a “vehicle” of Design and Architecture The creative impulses of Art Deco leave a trademark in buildings established during the glamorous Jazz age from mid-1930’s to 1940’s. These buildings have remained a heritage of architecture up to nowadays and have never failed to impress us with the fine nuances of Art Deco in various forms, from the highly decorative classical form … Continue reading The Spirit of Art Deco (watercolor drawing on paper)