Orange Sunset - Animal Kingdom - Room 5

- Jingna's Art Here

 

    "Yet in fact the dogs offer a key for opening a door. No, a gate--for here everything is outside, outside and beyond "(Berger, John).

 

Qi Baishi

Shrimps Playing around (hanging scroll)

1948

prepared Chinese ink on xuan paper

Length: 99cm, Width: 34cm

http://www.hnmuseum.com/hnmuseum/eng/collection/collectionContent.jsp?infoid=01304558d661402884832ff7e09511a9

The shrimps painted by Qi Baishi are very lifelike, vivid and dynamic, fully demonstrating the essence of Chinese ink painting (also known as Traditional Chinese Painting).

 

 

Eadweard Muybridge

Sequence of a Horse Galloping
1880
1233*667 (12.83inches*6.95inches)of a 120 DPI flat Panel
Photograph
http://www.uforgegallery.com/2014/02/assignment-inspiration-motion/

The earliest photographers were compelled to document movement, Eadweard Muybridge with his pioneering experiments on film. He took pictures of bodies horses galloping, so that when shown in rapid succession the images become animated.

 

Hobart Vosburg Roberts

A Leap in the Dark

1920

800*574(8.33*5.98)

Photograph

http://greenanswers.com/question/who-famous-animal-photographer/

This piece has both the deer and its reflection on a vertical position. A deer in dark, the deer is not sitting, not sleeping, but leaping. The deer questions what should we do in difficult situation?