Week 2 : Breaking The Rules!

In this post, I am going to write about 5 artists I consider breaking the rules.

1. Pablo Picasso

Going back many years ago, while classical subject-resembled painting was most popular, Picasso brought up a new style which known as cubism. He breaks the rule which said good painting had to appear with its object recognizable. He showed that it did not have to be like that. Many of his late works were presented by breaking down the subject into line and shape. His style (cubism) had made a huge impact to art world and the generation after until today.

Joie De Vivire 

Jacqueline with flowers 

Source : http://www.pablopicasso.org/

2. Stefaan De Croock

a Belgian artist Stefaan De Croock used old wooden door material to make a mural on the wall. He did not repaint it so each door would tell its own story. The ideas of old door used for me matched perfectly with the idea of breaking the rules bcause it is unusual material and he did not just put it out there for no reason, the message intended has been nicely presented through the materials and the wall behind which emphasizes it perfectly.

Source : http://museperk.com/

http://museperk.com/artist-turns-old-wooden-doors-into-giant-street-art-murals-2/?relatedposts_exclude=100999

3. Bruno Catalano

His sculpture works did make me wonder at first glance about how did it stand. After a moment, people will get the way it stands through the tip connection of two different objects which we did not put the focus on, for in reality, it is not connected objects (take example, bag and leg).There must be something behind mindblowing works, which created by breaking the usual. 

source : http://brunocatalano.com/

4. Brandon Stanton: Humans of New York

Brandon break the rules that says a great story has to come from great imagination of his own. No doubt about it, but with imagination hitting one more crucial spot, one can come up with more breaking-through idea. Instead of writing his own story, Brandon used people he found randomly at street to have conversation with. he dig it into perspective that many people can relate and reflect. then he posted it on instagram with a photograph of each person. He currently has 3 million followers on instagram and the feedback on comment section have a lot of great responding thoughts too. many accounts followed his idea afterward.

Source : http://instagram.com/humansofny

5. Tim Nobel and Sue Webster

They made a project together by collecting numbers of trash in London to turn its shadow into silhoutte photograph. Great artist always want to find another way to make the message appear more bold, or simply appear different. Turning stack of trash into aesthetical visual art must be a project of mind by switch off some old rules and switch on another.

Source : http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/12/non-trashy-recycled-and-trash-art/

Class Activity : Break The Rules!

Each person was asked to bring one raw egg, straws, thread, and tape. We were challenged to drop an egg without breaking it.

at first I misheard it, I thought we should put something on the floor to avoid the egg breaking instead of dropping it with the egg.

taken by me 

As I went on doing the work, soon I came up with tape and locked the egg with more straws to avoid it flying.

 

Reema was concentrated with her work. Picture was taken by me. 

The life inside is safe. taken by Reema 

Reflection

Often happens that what we have is so little yet our vision is so big. What we need to do about it is to think, and do, and re-think, and re-do, and on and on, so we make use of what we have and dig deep into it. This activity made me realize that when we challenge ourselves more, we exercise the mind to work on "HOW" and find more way to it, in form of thinking and doing. So we will do more than usual, we will use more our mind for good.

From my breaking the egg experience, I learned that sometimes we don't need all the perfect concept in the beginning in attempt to avoid failure. Failure was surely a thing to figure out but the perfect way to understand it better is by doing. Because when we think too much, we will do little, we will explore little, yet our mind is gold waiting to be drilled out by more exploration. how can we know if we don’t jump into the problem itself? I am a kind of person who have a lot of ideas but so little action. This activity class left something in my mind.