Recent Project-Architec

I am doing a project of Architecture for this assignment.

Architecture is something really draw my interest in and also what I may study in college. In the past winter break, I visited a great architect design company. I was shocked when I saw those great design of buildings, some of them were built already and others haven't been started. Though a big amount of those designs would not be built, they were still very impressive.

The architecture design is separated into many systems. For example the Asian design and European designs are very different in many ways. As a Asian, I learned a lot about Chinese architectures when I grow up and now I do want to learn something about Western architectures.

My project is three paintings of Lillard dorm.

One is a out side view of the house, ad the second one is the living room and the third one would be a detail of the house.
I watched many old drawings of Lillard and they really inspired me.

I have been working o the first on for two days and it is hard because this is my first time using the watercolor to paint.

Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? by Linda Nochlin

"Why have there been no great women artist?" Linda Nochlin asks this question in the book. This is not only a question for the readers, but also a topic for herself to discover.

In this writing, Linda provides many views of why there is no great women artist, it seems like she is a "anti-feminine", but in my opinion she is not. 

"With the naive idea that art is the direct, personal expression of individual emotional experience, a translation of personal life into visual terms. Art is almost never that, great art never is. "

However, women may do not show their art in a common way, like drawings or paintings, they do always show great art in other area. For example in kitchens. Women do express their feeling or idea without deeply think through, but I believe this is a way of showing the ORIGINAL.

"Thus the question of women's equality--in art as in any other realm--devolves not upon the relative benevolence or ill-will of individual men, nor the self-confidence or abjectness of individual women, but rather on the very nature of our institutional structures themselves and the view of reality which they impose on the human beings who are part of them."

In my opinion, the "equality" of women is defined by men's thinking. Though this may be true sometimes, most of time this is just forcing women to do the same thing as men do.

Great article to read.