2010年4月7日星期三

Sculpture at UMASS Boston

I'd like to rename the "Gods" to "Sustain".
From its introduction, I see this sculpture has a close relationship with the author's family. There are 3 members in his family, the separate three sculptures are all in different shapes, but I can feel they support each other by staying together. And the god means support and dependence, besides, "god" is a little difficult to understand if I don't read the introduction. So I think "Sustain" is better.

2010年4月5日星期一

Dorothea Lange


Last week, we had prepared for the presentation of the artist---Dorothea Lange. So I found some informations of her from the Internet and books.

After thinking about her works, I discovered an interesting issue: the relasionship between passion and job. Of course, she started it with love; however, she thought highly of photography step by step. She became more responsibility when she went over the country and saw many poors' lives, photography was no longer an interest for her, but a career. Her works can not be judge by money or something physical, they depond on the balance in our hearts. Her work is also a challenge to the public at that time. Dorothea hoped not only to encourge others to help the poors, but also change others' mind to compete for their rights. She spent almost her whole life to take photos, she thought her work is worthful. In order to do the great work, I think she had to give up many things.

In our modern life, it's too difficult to do something free, most of us try to find a job, least people want to creat a career. I regard Dorothea Lange as a artist because she has a strong emotion to show her life with some meaningful images, she is brave and she is great.