Excluding the materials we learned in lectures, is there other form of art you would like to know and you want to have a speaker make an introduction?
For example, other kinds of musical instruments, such as harp, cello, or electronic musical instruments, 3D (computer drawing, and animation), architecture, or any specific type of dances you want to learn more about.
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On Wednesday, one of the group presentations was about Japanese Animation and I thought it would be fun to have cartoon or caricature artists as speakers. All of us loved cartoons and animations when we were young and it would be a great opportunity for us to get to know more about the subject and how these artists are active in our community. I am curious about how cartoons and animations are used in the world other than for children's tv shows and comic books.
I think another form of visual art that would be fun to learn about is graffiti art. I don’t exactly mean the quickly scribbled paint that is all around LA on trashcans and run down buildings, but street art graffiti that has an artistic purpose. This reminds me of a time when I was walking the streets of Las Vegas and I saw a standing spotlight pointed at a blank piece of paper on the ground. I then stopped and watched the artist layer colors upon colors of spray paint (sometimes he used trashcan lids or other random items to block the colors and let the layer underneath show through). The graffiti artist would even paint over the entire canvas with black spray paint but with much skill he would recover the layers underneath to make a picture. The end product was an amazing masterpiece made out of only spray can paint.
Here is a similar art demonstration I saw…it is super long so watch for a bit and fast forward to the end product. It is amazing!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6y1qZYBFBDoSince the class title includes architecture, I would have liked to have a lecture on the topic. I know we briefly covered some colonial styles in China, but that seems very limited. When I was in Germany, there was this crazy tower called Kuchlbauerturm that looked cut out of a Dr. Seuss book! It had onion domes, gold paint accents, wild colors, curves, and odd proportions. It was so fun to stare at! The architect's name is Fiedensreich Hundertwasser. I love how he plays with imagination, gravity, and proportions. Here are a couple of his buildings...
Kuchlbauerturm
It's interesting discussions for me.
I came from Korea, so I have a interest of Korea Samulnori, which is a genre of korean traditional percussion music. For this Samulnori, four traditional korean musical instruments are always used. Kkwaenggwari, Jing, Janggu, and Buk which are called Pung mul.
When listening to the sound and watching performencers, I danced to the exciting rhythm and had really fun.
I really believe that people, who have been experieced this Samulnori, would be fun.