Ilham Gallery
29 May 2019 (week 09)
Soo Wen Yi (0334653)
Design Principles _ Ilham Gallery visit
For the second half of week 9's class we went to Ilham Gallery in KL. First we went to see an art exhibition by the artist Chia Yu Chian.
Here's my report for the art exhibition:
It was interesting to see the context of the paintings of the past in Malaysia. Most of his paintings has a lot of textures and include people as the main subject. There was also sketches being showcased for some of the paintings. The sketches are made up of lines which is one of the principle of design, they are very confident strokes as there's not more that 2 lines for each stroke on the sketches. There was perspectives used in his shop lots paintings and also alignment and direction. Patterns were used mostly in the clothing and walls on a painting. I noticed that most of his paintings are not symmetrical, so they're asymmetrical balanced. On a particular painting where there's patterns on the walls, I feel like the golden ratio could fit into it as the visual flow is similar to the golden ratio. There was also linear rhythm in a painting of people at the arcade, where everyone is facing towards a person playing on an arcade machine. There was also altering rhythm being used specifically in the rhythm of "A,B,A". The title of the piece was "Three Sisters", "A" has the face shown, "B" has the back shown". There was some contrast in terms of the colours between paintings, I'm not sure if it was the way of the paintings being restored but some painting are much more muted compared to others which had brighter and more saturated colours. Other than that, some contrasts in colours could be seen in paintings which has a lot of people in it or cars, the colour clothes and cars are different and it creates contrasts. One thing I found interestig, is that some of his paintings are done with oil on board which I have never heard of.
Here are some of the photos I took at the exhibition:
It was interesting to see the context of the paintings of the past in Malaysia. Most of his paintings has a lot of textures and include people as the main subject. There was also sketches being showcased for some of the paintings. The sketches are made up of lines which is one of the principle of design, they are very confident strokes as there's not more that 2 lines for each stroke on the sketches. There was perspectives used in his shop lots paintings and also alignment and direction. Patterns were used mostly in the clothing and walls on a painting. I noticed that most of his paintings are not symmetrical, so they're asymmetrical balanced. On a particular painting where there's patterns on the walls, I feel like the golden ratio could fit into it as the visual flow is similar to the golden ratio. There was also linear rhythm in a painting of people at the arcade, where everyone is facing towards a person playing on an arcade machine. There was also altering rhythm being used specifically in the rhythm of "A,B,A". The title of the piece was "Three Sisters", "A" has the face shown, "B" has the back shown". There was some contrast in terms of the colours between paintings, I'm not sure if it was the way of the paintings being restored but some painting are much more muted compared to others which had brighter and more saturated colours. Other than that, some contrasts in colours could be seen in paintings which has a lot of people in it or cars, the colour clothes and cars are different and it creates contrasts. One thing I found interestig, is that some of his paintings are done with oil on board which I have never heard of.
Here are some of the photos I took at the exhibition:
After that we went to see a photographer's exhibition by multiple photographers.
Here's my report for the photography exhibition:
This exhibition is by different photographers who captured the everyday lives, portraits, magazine covers etc. I am really interested in film photography so seeing actual film photographs being developed, printed and presented in these frames are truly magical. The grains and dust particles in the photographs, the defects in the photographs all play a certain role in telling the story about how the photographs are being brought to life in to a physical form. Some of the compositions are interesting and it makes me wonder were they planned to get the shot through trial and error or was it a candid shot. There was also a strong contrast shown in a particular photograph in which a woman stood in front of what is seems to be a window and she and the foreground is black while the far background is coloured. The strong silhouette is pretty empowering as the women seems to be in a posture that shows off her body shape and nothing is hidden like a hand behind a back. As usual there was perspective in the photographs that were of streets, there was also movement in a photograph where it captured a kid running.
Here are some of the photos I took at the exhibition:
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