MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Hey everybody!

its been a long looooooooooong time since last post! (im sorry, im being such irresponsible exec. xp)
anyway, i wish everyone have a happy holiday and merry christmas!
i think many of you know that because of the bill 115, we are not allow to have club meetings at school, so lets start do it on our blog! share your art work by posting them on the website, or send it to me so i can post it.

Materials that you can share:
- your own art work (accept anything that you think its artistic! not necessarily painting or sketching. it can be paper cutting, print-making, photographs, cut and pasting work (collage) or even your hand-made christmas card! :D)
- inspiration (anything you see on a street, at school, or on the internet)
- your friends' work
- and artistic exhibition (ie. art fest)

make sure you attach the artist's name (your name) and a caption of the art piece if possible.
feel free to ask me any question

looking forward to see your post :)
MERRY CHRISTMAS and HAVE A WONDERFUL AND WARM HOLIDAY <3

xoxo
Vanessa

Welcome back!! Art council first meeting in 2012-2013!!

Hi everybody!! Welcome back to Art council!!
SO WE WILL HAVE OUR FIRST MEETING TOMORROW AT LUNCH IN STUDIO 1!!

We all miss our beloved club heads Kayleigh and ChaoYin who graduated last summer. (sob, sob...... just kidding XP) And here I want to introduce the new executives of Art Council this year.

This year we have 4 executives. ( I secretly go through almost your entire facebook albums to get the best photo of you guys. hahahaha!)

Co-Presidents

Julie Huh                                     Tara Selvaraj                                                 
   

Public Relation Head

Fanny Chen

(sorry that this is the only one i can find xp)

Web-Communication Head

Vanessa Lai


If you have any question about the Art Council, feel free to ask any of us :) We are all glad to share arts and meet new friends :)) See you all tomorrow > <

Vanessa
xoxo

Wrap up summer holiday with ART FEST!!

Hey everyone! It's the last day of summer today. (WHAT?! ALREADY?!!) I know, right? Does everybody had a wonderful summer?! I had a really awesome one. And I wrapped up my summer holiday with Art Fest. It was held in the Distillery Historic District on this Labour day long weekend. Here are some pictures to share with you. =]

African Masks

This shop sells leather belts and accessories for belts. And the beautiful thing below are actually buckles > <

More buckles > <

This is actually coated with a layer of glass. (you can actually see my reflection xp)

The figure in this picture is 3D. Amazing, eh?!

Art work made of metals and wires.

"Stuffed animals"?...

Hope you enjoyed it! And wish you all the best in the new school year!!
Vanessa
xoxo

Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musee National Picasso, Paris

Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musee National Picasso, Paris -- Now in AGO (Art Gallery of Ontario)

May 1, 2012 --> August 26, 2012

Brief Introduction
By Art Gallery of Ontario 

“I paint the way some people write an autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages from my diary.”  —Pablo Picasso (1881–1973)



Art was Picasso’s destiny. He could draw before he could talk, painted like an old master while still a teenager, and by age 30 he had taken Paris – the centre of the art world – by storm. Ceaselessly prolific, he devoured influences and created innovation after innovation, inventing new styles that forever changed the course of modern art. He was a genius and he knew it. Intense and passionate, he bucked authority at every turn, determined to carve out his own path to becoming the world’s greatest artist. Ultimately, every Picasso artwork is about Picasso – the works reveal his unique vision of the world and embody his profound responses to it. They lay bare the beauty and anxieties of his time, the horrors of war, as well as his personal passions, desires and fears.

"HE COULD DRAW BEFOR HE COULD TALK"

This exhibition offers a rare perspective on the life and work of this iconic artist: his own. It features works from Picasso’s private collection, now in the holdings of the Musée National Picasso in Paris. Over a career of more than seventy years, these are the works he kept with the intent of shaping his own artistic legacy.



The AGO is the sole Canadian and final venue on an international tour, which includes stops in Madrid, Abu Dhabi, Tokyo, Helsinki, Moscow and St. Petersburg, Seattle, Richmond, San Francisco and Sydney. The pieces on display span this modern master’s unceasingly radical and diverse career,Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso, Paris features:

• The Death of Casagemas, one of the first works he created in Paris in 1901;
• Autoportrait (Self-Portrait), the iconic 1906 self-portrait;
• the 1904 Blue-period masterpiece Celestina (The Woman with One-Eye), and The Two Brothers, a 1906 work from his Rose period;
• landmark African-inspired artwork that led to the advent of Cubism, including studies for the 1907 masterpiece Les Demoiselles d’Avignon and Three Figures Beneath a Tree, 1907-08;
• examples of his genre-defining Analytic and Synthetic Cubism artworks, including the 1909-10Sacré Coeur, 1911’s seminal Man with a Guitar and 1915’s Violin;
• Two Women Running on the Beach (The Race), a 1922 masterwork from his Neoclassical period, and 1925’s The Kiss, from his Surrealist period;
• a series of sculptures created during the Second World War, including 1942’s Bull’s Head, and two bronzes, 1943’s Death’s Head and 1950’s The Goat;
• The Bathers, the 1956 life-sized, six-piece figurative sculpture series created during a summer in Cannes; and
• The Matador, the famous self-portrait painted in 1970, three years before his death.

The exhibition also highlights Picasso’s depictions of his muses and mistresses, including 1918’sPortrait of Olga in an Armchair, which features the Russian ballerina and Picasso’s first wife seated on a Spanish tapestry, the background left purposefully unfinished. French surrealist photographer Dora Maar, who inspired his 1937 “Weeping Woman” series, is also prominently featured, as is Jacqueline Roque, Picasso’s second wife and most-painted muse, depicted in the 1954 work Jacqueline with Crossed Hands.
Ultimately, every Picasso artwork is about Picasso – the works reveal his unique vision of the world and embody his profound responses to it. They lay bare the beauty and anxieties of his time, the horrors of war, as well as his personal passions, desires and fears.

               

Information from Art Gallery of Ontario

For more information, visit: http://www.ago.net/home

YM Art show @ Library

Hi guys! Looks like everyone having some busy weeks with course culmination projects but the YM ART SHOW IS ON!!!

FROM MAY 23 TO JUNE 6 @ LIBRARY!!!!

Here are some previews.

DROP BY AND SUPPORT AND APPRECIATE YOUR FRIENDS!! YOU DON'T WANNA MISS OUT!!

Vanessa =]

UP COMING EVENTS IN TOWN

John Abrams & Sung Ja Kim Chisholm @ Ioop Gallery

Time: From now until April 22, 2012

Cost: Free

Location:

Ioop Gallery

1273 Dundas Street West

Dundas Street West and Dovercourt


Exhibition by Ioop members: John Abrams entitled Entertaining Modernism, and Sung Ja Kim Chisholm entitled Transforming.


Entertaining Modernism comprises a selection of new painting and sculptures that emanate from John Abrams' ongoing interest in concepts of the modern found in film, sculpture and painting.


Kim's exhibition of figurative drawings and mixed media abstracts presents visual conceptions of two fundamental aspects of the human condition: childhood experiences, as well as alienation and spiritual hunger.

Please visit http://www.loopgallery.ca/loop/home.html and http://wx.toronto.ca/festevents.nsf/a2f14808aae0d4f1852572ff0066124a/a774827781a6a64c852579c60003e311?OpenDocument for more information. 

Pitches in the Western Wind Art Exhibit

Time: From April 19, 2012 - May 5, 2012
         Opening night reception, Thu, April 19: 6pm - 8pm
         Regular hours: 10am - 5pm


Cost: Free


Location:
Leonardo Galleries
133 Avenue Road
Avenue Road and Davenport Road

Artist James Simon, who is well-known as a portaitest and as the Sr. resident artist on the TV show Debbie Travis' Painted House, presents his first exhibit in Toronto, 'Pitches in the Western Wind'. The public opening reception is on Thurs, Apr 19 (6-8 pm) at Leonardo Galleries.

James Simon states, " These paintings (oil on canvas, cowboy boots and horse series) art about the four square feet we occupy wherever we stand. It is the essence of human rights and dignity, No one can challenge your right to be born or that you stand on a spot on Earth."

Seen globally in 72 countries, James Simon appeared as special guest artist on Debbie Travis' Painted House from 1997 to 2002, and enjoys a long career as a premier portrait artist.

Please visit www.leonardogalleries.com and http://wx.toronto.ca/festevents.nsf/a2f14808aae0d4f1852572ff0066124a/0609fe1f944924df852579e3000c1702?OpenDocument for more information.

Thompson Landry Gallery presents "Bonheur Facile" by Rock Therrien

Time: April 13, 2012 - May 6, 2012

Cost: Free

Location:
Thompson Landry Gallery
55 Mill Street
Mill Street and Parliament Street

The mixed media works of Rock Therrien embrace the humour that often touches the viewer through the artist's use of enlarged figures and playful text. His characters bring the canvas to life, evoking memories of family and home with a wit that is both joyous and profound. Despit the light-hearte subject matter of his pieces Therrien's work maintin the deeper essential concept, reminding the view that wiht the right tools, happiness is easy to achieve.

Please visit  www.thompsonlandry.com and http://wx.toronto.ca/festevents.nsf/a2f14808aae0d4f1852572ff0066124a/c0cd89b16a16463e852579cf005b671a?OpenDocument for more information.

Just a Few Photos by Fanny

Florida, USA

                                            Somewhere on the Caribbean Sea...

Nassau, the Bahamas

by Fanny Chen

P.S. Hope you like it.   ^_^

A feedback to painting class :)

I was in Grade 12 painting class last semester, and painting self portrait was our final painting.And I had no experience on drawing people, painting people. (Especially myself...) I have no idea what colour should I choose or how to start to draw the structure of my face!!! I thought I'm going to be a dead meat, but Ms. B made us do TONS of practices.

Through the process, I kept complaining to her why do we have to do this, she just gave me a smile and took my brush showed me where to fix. When I think back now, how immature I was. Even when I got nothing to do draw, I started to paint self portrait on my computer... it amazed me. I never thought my painting skill could reach that high level.

This may not my best drawing of myself, the eyes part is a bit off. But what I really want to say is... Practice really makes you perfect. And once again, "Ms. B thank you. You are one of my best art teacher. ;)" (But not the funniest, LOL)