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.

Shortanimation

0416- East Village Test

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0408 TEST

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.

Style test

0325 Storyboard- People in New York

Definition of beauty

Cognitivism- Final

cognitivism-Mavis from Jing Yuan Huang on Vimeo.

0212critique

ACognivism animatic storyboard 1

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.

Cognitivism-Storyboard version 2

Coginivism-storyboard

Response of the Conginivism

"By using symbols we discover( indeed we build) the worlds we live in, and the interest we have in symbols- artworks amount them- is distinctively cognitive. "
This quote reminds me that one of my friends, who is an fearless photography, once told to me "This whole wold, is made of education. What we think is right is contributed to education, and so is wrong. Can you image the world that without education? What will we do? What if the right thing is defined as the wrong thing?" The world would be severely chaos. While we are growing up, we keeps being brainwashed, which is, in other words, education. For me, education is the base of the cognitivism. We understand the world by what we've learned. I think art is somehow cognitive, but not all. Since we might be taught that red means exciting and blue means sadness. By these preconception we can interpret the art work. However, in other circumstances, we may instinctively touched by an unique painting which is a woman smiling to you since it resonates with you. It has nothing to do with your cognitivism but recall your memory or experience. 

Responed to Felix in Exile

This film is consists of large-scale drawings in charcoal and pastel on paper. The images are instantly melting and altering. This transition reminds me the memory, which William Kentridge might want to metaphor with this style. In this animation. He uses a lot of papers, which cover the bleeding corpse regularly. Some people who are tied walk though the landscape. They look upset through the telescope. The naked man sitting in the room has connection with the woman, who finally dead and bleeding as same as other dead people on the ground. The water appears everywhere. For me, the water saves the man from drown in his room though it turns into blood in the end. The woman is like the seer. She is wise and perceptive. We are watching through her eyes, her angles. The man frequently thinks of this woman. She appears in water, mirror and papers. She is the man's eyes. The man needs her to see the world since he has nothing and is in an airtight room. When the woman die, the man also lose his eyes. Hence he is blocked in a small pool forever.