Tag: Vol.1, No.1 Jan.-Mar.2023
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Images in Between: My Artistic Research and Practice
Using images as an entrance, through the historical track of Eastern and Western art, reveals the meaning of “in-between” in contemporary art forms. Using the perspective of Chinese philosophy, we analyze the role of “borrowing and transformation” in contemporary art, emphasizing the importance of the generating state of “likeness and unlikeness” and the changing relationship…
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Seeing at Stake: The Anti-Aesthetic of Bio-Art
In this age of biotechnology the concepts of biology and life are being radically transformed. Biotechnology is not only a category of science, but is also closely related to social, economic, and cultural fields, which are often overshadowed by technical rationality. Bio-art draws on emerging biotechnologies to create works of art that remove technology from…
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To Go Beyond Imagery is to Attain Truth: A Brief Discussion of the Meaning of Calligraphy
“Meaning” is the essence of Chinese calligraphy expression. The unstable shape of the line produced by the brush’s movement makes the expression of meaning in calligraphic works extremely rich. The combination of dots and lines within a Chinese character, as well as the graphic combinations between characters, play an equally important role in the generation…
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Dao Zi’s Art and Review
According to Martin Heidegger, “poetry is the adoption of the divine scale”. This is also Dao Zi’s basic approach to art. In Hölderlin’s poems, what Heidegger experienced most deeply was the essence of poetry: to illuminate. It is through insightful illumination that things can be ‘opened up’, to enlighten the human soul, to enlighten the…
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Notes About the Role of China and Chinese Art in My Work
An astrologer told me once, fate is what happens to you; destiny is what you make of it. We are each one of us a separate tree of life in the great forest of life that is the Earth itself. And for that different tree that each one of us is, it…
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Lifetime of Devotion: The Art of Fred Martin
Fred Martin was an outstanding painting professor and scholar who worked at the San Francisco Art Institute for over 50 years, during which he served as the President of the San Francisco Art Institute for over 20 years. He was a renowned painter, art critic, and art educator in the United States, and was also…
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Serving Tea and Filling-water-up, Neither Sculpturing Nor Modeling: Zhang Yu’s Artistic Expansion After “Fingerprints”
The creative art of contemporary Chinese artist Zhang Yu, from the ink wash experiments in the 1980s to today’s contemporary experiments, has been developed for nearly forty years, and now it has entered a period of summary. This article focuses on Zhang Yu’s second decade of the new century, and that is the latest phase…