East Village

East village from Jing Yuan Huang on Vimeo.

Artist Statement

     I like to depict the tiny events of my daily life. From flowing black plastic bag to falling leaves. Focus on the details and try to remember them without camera help me observe this world. East Village was a short and tiny event I noticed when I went to East Village last month. The gay couple or probably friends were talking and didn't notice their shivering dog. A woman passed by and reminded them this poor little fellow. I was surprised by the care that given by a stranger. She neither didn't know the couple and the dog. However, she spoke to them and saved the little dog. Thought it was cold, the woman's behavior not only warmed that little dog but also heated this world.

Mavis-Jerry

Shortanimation

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Comment on The Abuse of Beauty

"The paintings are not to be admired because they are beautiful, but because their being so is internally connected with their reference and their mood. " Beauty is internal. The beauty is ingredient in the content of the work. Beauty is what we receive from the feeling we have toward the art work. Beauty is not as concrete as a beautiful landscape or elegant woman. I searched for Robert Motherwell's works. I also like Africa 1970.

Also their is another point interest me is that the author asked " Have we have a right to shoe suffering if that order in beautiful ways?" Though the composition and color of elegy to the spanish republic is beautiful, but under this painting, is the catastrophic event, immense sadness. It's a horrible historical event. It's so unforgettable that it's might be the one more injure for those who were related to that event. It's painful for them to see this representation of that disaster. 

Starving Sudanese gives me the same feeling. The photo itself is beautiful or, specifically  , right on the target. But audience can only get the feeling and sense of the famine problem in Africa and unconsciously forget to admire this photo. The meaning behind has exceeded the beauty itself. We can directly see the impact of the event instead of the object of the art work.

Comment on Hedgehog in the Fog

Yuriy Norshteyn claimed his work as "Visual Memory".That's the reason why we can feel recalling or memorizing through looking at his animation. This animation reflects the place where he came from. The mood of this animation is subtle and mysterious. Only the white horse stood out. For me, this animation is like a diary of particular day of Hedgehog. It's a usual day that he is going to meet his friend. But it's unusual today. He was stocked by the fog and he found a beautiful white horse. He went into that fog, saw the huge tree, met a dog which returned his bag for him......etc. Only thing that Hedgehog remembered was that white horse. That horse was special and marked in his mind. Nevertheless he let this creature passed by his life. He didn't get it or even want to get it. It was just a interesting moment, event of daily life.

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Jerry & Jeddy

The swimmer

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JERRY

He is a cute baby but with adult soul. What is inside this baby's body is a criminal. He is smart but has bad temper. If he was found doing bad thing, he would enlarge his eyes which made other people forgive him or think that he was innocent. His mother is a kind woman and totally doesn't know who he really is. She always think that he is his cute and unsophisticated little boy.

JEDY

Jerry's bother. He is two years older than Jerry. He is so dumb and good at ruining Jerry's plane. He only makes things worse. Whenever Jerry wants he to do something, he always misunderstand and does the opposite thing.

Candies

     He opened his eyes at 10:00 a.m., he felt so hungry. He wants the candy with Lime flavor. He hates the milk. "Jerry!" Said his mom, who was coming into the room holding the milk bottle. " Here comes the milk!" His mother walks to him. Jerry closed his eyes pretend he was sleeping as long as his mother stood by him. "Wake up Jerry! Time for the milk!" She said. But Jerry still closed his eyes. "Mm..." Jerry's mother left." Maybe I will come back later." Right after his mother closed the door. Jerry climbed out from the crib. The candies were on the top of the book shelf. Jerry looked around the bedroom. He found the box which could be the stairs. He crawled to the box and grabbed it. The ball bounced out from the box and woke the dog- Juju. While Jerry put the box in front of the book shelf and was ready to climb on it. Juju ran into the room. He carried the ball and blocked Jerry's way. "Go away! Juju!!" Said Jerry. He grabbed the ball and threw it out from the window. Juju jumped out from the window and crashed the glass. Jerry sighed and started to climb. Suddenly he heard his mother came up from the stairs. Meanwhile Juju jumped into the bedroom with the ball in his mouth. Listening his mother's sound getting closer and bigger and Watching Juju ran closer and closer, Jerry was thinking out what he was gonna do. Opened the door, what Jerry's mother saw was that Jerry sit on the floor. The crib was fallen and Juju was jumping and barking happily to Jerry. "Juju!!!!! Look at what you've done!!! You make the roon messy!!! Bad dog!!!!" Said Jerry's mom. She then put Jerry on the Sofa, which was closer to the candies. She took Jerry out of the room quickly. Looking at the candies, Jerry smiled. He climbed up the book shelf and he almost got it. "Jerry! What are you doing!" Said Jedy, Jerry's stupid brother. In his point of view, Jerry looked like wanted to climb out to the window. "You want to go outside? I can accompany with you!" Said Jedy. He gentlly carried Jerry on his arm and left the room. "No! No! No! Get away from me!" Said Jerry but unfortunately, he couldn’t speak. It looked like he was crying. "Don't cry Jerry. I will take you out of this narrow bedroom." Said Jedy. He looked like doted on Jerry. He probably didn’t notice the tears from Jerry's eyes. "My candies......" Said Jerry. 

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Cognitivism- Final

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Conflict character

Living under the water, this little girl is a ghost lives in the lake. She always is too kindhearted to kill a person. That's the reason why she never leaves lake. Though she is friendly, she has the strong power which can eliminate people immediately. What's worse, she can't control it especially she gets mad. Her name is Daisy. She is beautiful. However, her appear shifts rapidly. Since her face may change according to her emotion. If she gets angry, she won't keep the human facial anymore. Since she has no friends to play with. She has s lot of dolls and toys to accompany her. She is shy but also expects romance. She kill people by using her super power. She uses the power to lift people up and suck their blood and energy until they turn into skeleton. Meanwhile, her body will transform into black aura and keep flashing like the lightening. In my story, she only gets mad since she finds the bully hitting Jimmy who is her friend.

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Shirley is a hardworking student. She studied in the library at night. After she went home, Shirley changed her cloth and went to her part-time job. Next day, she was found murdered by someone.

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Response of William Kentridge: How we make sense of the world

     "I am interested in showing the process of thinking. The way that one constructs a film out of these fragments that one reinterprets retrospectively - and changes the time of - is my sense of how we make sense of the world. And so the animated films can be a demonstration of how we make sense of the world rather than an instruction about what the world means."

"Uncertainty is an essential category. As soon as one gets certain their voice gets louder, more authoritarian and authoritative and to defend themselves they will bring an army and guns to stand next to them to hold. There is a desperation in al certainty. The category of political uncertainty, philosophical uncertainty, uncertainty of images is much closer to how the world is. That is also related to provisionality, to the fact that you can see the world as a series of facts or photographs or you can see it as a process of unfolding. Where the same thing in a different context has a very different meaning or very different form."
     

Response of Heidegger Reframed

     I am agree with that" The work that art does is categorically not the object- painting, sculpture, drawing, print and so on" For Heidegger, the essence of art is a mode of creating an open region in which truth emerges that we have come to call an art work. This evaluation also holds for musical and poetical works." For me, art is a feeling and an emotion which artist tries to evaluate through there art works, since creating is what artist good at. The true of the art is what artist try to say or express. 
     Heidegger's theory reminds me of the famous painting- "The Treachey of Images" which is painted Rene Magritte. The pipe is showed on the picture, but below the pipe is the sentence written by Magritte "Ceci 'est pas une pipe." , which is "This is not a pipe" Frankly, it is not a pipe, if we dig in the truth of the image. This is a paper with a pipe on it. But people seen this picture as a pipe since they jump to the conclusion of the art and forget that the paper, the ink and even the words are nothing but the media, which sometimes misleads the meaning and purpose of the art. The pipe is a trick. The artist drew the pipe but don't want people take it as a pipe, which is only a bridge for the artist and the audience.

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