Month: February 2022

Richard is an English war artist, who has participated in WWI. His work are considered to be Futurism, fasinated by the idea of ‘simultaneity’. This is shown here in his attempt to capture in one composition the many views and movements in a single moment.

Futurism is a type of art that captures a moving object. It advocate movement, energy, momentum, speed, brave, fighting, patriotism.

Interesting enough how art, literature and all aspects of life are heavily influenced by and reflect the era that people lived in. In the case of Modernism, it is The Industrial Revolution, WWI, WWII and politics that influenced everything.

Wonder how the era that I live in influences our lives and output, movie, literature, art, architecture? Wonder how people would name our movement (if we have one) 100 years down the road? An era of information explosion, which caused reflection of less is more hence Minimalism occured? An era of privacy protection is key? Cutting of the internet.

I think the purpose of writing a blog is to get my interest in Art & Design going. Some of my team member said, the frequency of writing on daily basis it’s too much, which I agree.

If writing beomes an obligation, it may kill the interest after all. However the break in between shouldn’t be too long so that I get my thoughts going. Perhaps 3-5 times per weeks is a good number.

Blog may be stream of consciousness at the beginning, like murmuring. Once get things going, and get used to writing. It may become a more academic writing as I get deeper than the previous writings. At the end, it may be a journal to look back. I may see my own development.

This is a photo I’ve taken in Guangzhou, China two years ago in 2020.

Sit in a moving car, glancing the architectures that passed by, and cement silos on a piece of construction site caught into my eyes. Didn’t know why I find it stands out and where the surge of beauty was from. Until I read Le Corbusier’s book Towards An Architecture. In chapter Three reminders to architects: I. Mass.

In the chapter it says the simple geometric forms and primary masses are the most disctint, tangible and powerful. That can be clearly understood and appreciated by people. I was very glad that this book solve my question why I wanted to take a random picture on silos (it’s not even a proper designed architecture, just tools). Almost thought I had a bad taste.