User:Jianfenglu

Bio
Hello, my name is JianFeng Lu, and I come from China.

Midterm
Typewriter Eraser, Scale X, model 1998, fabricated 1999 stainless steel and fiberglass painted with acrylic urethane.

Claes Oldenburg, American born Sweden, 1929.

Coosje van Bruggen, American born The Netherlands, 1942. Edition 3/3 plus one artist's proof The Paul Allen Family Collection.

"I make my art out of everyday experiences, which I find as perplexing and extraordinary as can be. We don't copy the objects we use, we try to transform them and we hope they go on transforming as you look at them. The idea of endless public dialogue...visual dialogue...is very important to us" --Claes Oldenburg

(I'm not sure if this instruction is the right one which I saw...I was kind of confused when I walk around, sorry about that.)

This is the first time for me to see sculpture in public, I mean outside the room. All the sculptures connected to the nature very well, and to me, they are just a part of the environment. I took a long time to look at all those sculptures, and finally I stopped in front of the 'Crazy Guitar'. I'd like to say that I don't like this one very much. I feel strange when I look at it. The color they used, the place they placed it, all the things seems like no belong to each other, but the author put them together. The author used red on the body of the guitar, and used blue on the strings. Red represents fire, passion, blue represents cold, negative. Honestly, I think the author must be crazy to put this two color on one artwork. Also the strings make me more confuse, because there are lots of strings pointed different places, seems like they want to connect to something. Music is one of the best way to connect different people, groups, countries. People always say that music is unlimited, but when I put this oopinion on the sculpture, it doesn't work. Personally, I think the author should use red on the strings, and choose another color on the body. Then we can say that the music from guitar connected different people with a same music which can prove my opinion. Or we can say that music could be a bridge that can united different people from different countries. After a few days I walked back there, and try to look at the sculpture again. I saw it two blocks away, and I realized that maybe the guitar is broke, maybe this is a fail music, maybe it can't touch people. I still can't figure out the idea which author want to speak from the sculpture, and I still don't like this artwork. Couple times I opened up my computer, and started to looking for the information about the author, and this sculpture. But I didn't let myself look at the information. I telling myself to figue out it myself. About the artwork, about the reason why the author made it. I may love it someday when I woke up, but not now, not like after I cheating on the information online. I planed to go to the sculpture park and look at it twice a week, to feel it, and then I can tell, if I like it or not.

In the end, I would like to say that this assignment is very good for me. Because I've never spent some time in the nature with some artworks, spent some time to think of myself, my own opinion. I enjoyed it very much :)

Assignment: I've Always Wanted To
Idea: I've always wanted to introduce my hometown to you

-Research the history of my hometown (DaLian)

-Places that people would like to visit

-Weather

-Foreign relationships

Week One -Choose topic

Week Two -Researching basic information about my hometown

Week Three -Researching palces that people would like to visit

Week Four -Finding information about the weather

Week Five -Looking for information which make my hometown similar to Seattle

Week Six - Week eight -Put things together

Reflective Assessment
This is my first quater in AIS and I think I did a pretty nice job in this class. I'd like to say that I like this class, but at the beginning of this quater, I didn't pay enough attention in the class, because I thought I already know the things we talked about in the class. After a few classes, I realized that I was wrong, this class seems like easy, but actually the teacher taught me a lot of things that I may not learn in school. I believe I learned a lot and finish my goal at the end of this quater. I like the way Steve handle his class, and I like this Wiki page,, I may continue use this and I hope I'll do well in other classes. Not a so bad first quater, and a group of nice classmates :) Thanks all of you guys.