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This trimester, I made a weird creature. It's a creature that I created. It looks like a fish and a duck. I used foil paper, newspaper, and paper towel to shape the creature. I will continue adding the paper towel and paint it eventually. It had a standing problem at first. I didn't know how to make it stand, but I overcome this problem. It is not standing perfectly, but it can stand.

Olafur Eliasson

Olafur Eliasson is a Danish-Icelandic artist. He is famous for sculptures and large-scale installation. He uses materials like light, water, and air temperature to enhance the audience's experience.





He is probably my favorite blog artist so far. I really like how he use the material to shorten the distance between him and the audience. The audience can feel that they are in the art. This is what I want in an art museum.



I feel like his work has a really strong visual impact to the audience. It's also very modern in some ways because it's very colorful.

Jasper Johns

Jasper Johns is an American painter, sculptor and printmaker.

He does a lot of painting, sculpture, prints, collaborations, and commissions. His paintings are really colorful and abstract.







Johns makes his sculptures in wax first, then he would work on the details. He would finish up the piece with patina. 
He usually does some normal things in daily life, like his friend's foot. 

Alberto Giacometti

Alberto Giacometti was a Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman and printmaker. He mostly lived in Pairs since 1922. Paris was a really artistic city. Giacometti was one of the most important sculptors of the 20th century.

His work was influenced by artistic styles such as Cubism and Surrealism.

This was a really famous sculpture that he did. It showed the image of women at that time period. 

Claes Oldenburg

Claes Oldenburg is an American sculptor. He did some pop art and modern art. 

He usually enlarge some normal things and turn it into a super cool sculpture. Like cherry, match, ice cream, and apple. He would put them into natural life, which is combining the sculpture really well.

Nick Cave

Nick Cave was born in Fulton, Missouri in 1959. He created "Soundsuits." It fully conceal the body. It's like the second skin for alien that cover skin, race, and class. People can see it without any bias. 





Cave usually dance in front of people to inspire them.





I really like how the person stand and the outfit. The material and the big head is really intriguing.

Puppet Making

Making a puppet is really complex. There are many steps.

There are initial planing, carving the foam base, covering the foam with fleece, and the final assembly.





The stitches are also very important. There are the whipstitch, 

the locking whipstitch, 

the baseball stitch, 

and the ladder stitch. 


Then people can start to create a character to make!

Haseltine Pozzi

Haseltine Pozzi is an artist who like to collect bottles garbage then to make art. She is very talented and do colorful sculptures.




She uses the bottles that she collected and turn them into beautiful art work. Different animals.





Think of some kind of animal and color the bottles and the plastics, then add it on to the shape.
I really like the idea, very creative and it can also save the environment.

3D printing

The 3D printing is a printing machine that print three-dimensional. The term "3D printing" originally referred to a process that deposits a binder material onto a powder bed with inkjet-printer heads layer by layer. In recent years, it started to have additive-manufacturing techniques such as Electron beam melting and Selective laser melting.

A three-dimensional printer

A 3D selfie in 1:20 scale printed using gypsum-based printing

In the current situation, 3D printing or Additive Manufacturing has been used in manufacturing, medical, industry and sociocultural sectors, which 3D printing or Additive Manufacturing become a successful commercial technology.

Some simulation diagrams

Nam June Paik

Nam June Paik was a Korean American artist. He worked with a variety of media and is considered to be the founder of video art. He studied music history with composer Thrasybulos Georgiades at Munich University. He was known for video art, performance, illustration art.

He use everyday sounds and noises in his music. He experiment video art. He was trained as a classic pianist earlier. His passion for combining audio, visual, and electronic elements was formed in Fluxus movement. Humanize technology was very important in his art work.

He was the father of video art.