After visiting the Singapore Art Museum I found nearly all the works are abstract modern art. For instance, there was a messy “woman’s chignon” made by straws, which is supposed to encourage hair’s reuse. It reminds me some of the museums and galleries I visited in China, where also have few traditional art works.
Modern art works abound in terms instead of just painting or statue. The scope of art has been expanded to model, photography, video, mixed media installation, and so on. I saw a video in the SAM which records a woman sang songs to many dead people. I was confused about why a video like that can be an art work. Granted, an art work is a way, through which the author conveys his spirit or belief. He wants his work can enlighten the public or someone can empathize with him. In this way, the genre should not be fixed anymore, as long as the work is able to show the author’s intention well.
In addition, another feeling is that a considerable amount of art works are too difficult for to understand. I am not sure whether it should impute to my lacking of art sense, or they are indeed baffling. It seems that the artists make a simple work become more complicated on purpose by using some modern skills. For example, there were some models which dressed in colorful lace suspended from the roof. For the works like that, I can only feel the beauty in them, which is shallow.
I hope I can understand the modern art deeper; after all it is the tendency of art.
Modern art works abound in terms instead of just painting or statue. The scope of art has been expanded to model, photography, video, mixed media installation, and so on. I saw a video in the SAM which records a woman sang songs to many dead people. I was confused about why a video like that can be an art work. Granted, an art work is a way, through which the author conveys his spirit or belief. He wants his work can enlighten the public or someone can empathize with him. In this way, the genre should not be fixed anymore, as long as the work is able to show the author’s intention well.
In addition, another feeling is that a considerable amount of art works are too difficult for to understand. I am not sure whether it should impute to my lacking of art sense, or they are indeed baffling. It seems that the artists make a simple work become more complicated on purpose by using some modern skills. For example, there were some models which dressed in colorful lace suspended from the roof. For the works like that, I can only feel the beauty in them, which is shallow.
I hope I can understand the modern art deeper; after all it is the tendency of art.
In fact, I felt a little strange when I heard the girl singing songs to dead people. Death is something that you do better not talk about in China. However, in SAM, I think they have made death a kind of art. To be frank, I feel disgust about this exhibition, though I cannot deny that people in different cultures may differ in mind about death or something else. Apart from that part, I think this journey is meaningful and educational.
ReplyDeleteIf I am standing in front of a group of dead people, I will feel so scary. I think this is part of Nanyang culture, and the art museum is really modern.
ReplyDeleteWell, modern art is different and updating stuff. You can try to understand some of them, but I think it is impossible to figure all their meanings out by yourself. Since art is an individual thing to some extent.
ReplyDeleteArt is about life and also death. These subjects can not change forever. To understand art is to understand life.
ReplyDeleteI cannot understand them also. I think that the art itself has no meaning. Only the implication behind the appearance makes sense--which I cannot see...
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