Friday, November 4, 2011

The Bed






Visited to Vienna art and design, wonderful and creative art and design by masters such as Gustav Klimt, Josef Hoffman, Otto Wagner and Adolf loss.


I have never seen product or furniture designs as breath taking as Josef Hoffman's designs. 
Simple yet creative, aren't that what we as product design students should apply in our designs?


Everyone loves Gustav Klimt and so do I.  
Spent 3 hours in the exhibition hall carefully studying at each Vienna art work, my waist and legs started to feel sore, I have to admit that my body is not as good as it was...
I sat on the couch and stared at Gustav Klimt's painted plaster "Beethoven Frieze" for 10 minutes. 
Marvelous! How on earth can an artist be so creative? But why not? The sky is the limit!
What I love about klimt  is the feminine elements in his art. 
I love to draw female character since I was five. 
And yes I admit that I love to observe female on the street, women are just so interesting.


I decided to paint for my boyfriend during our one year anniversary and  take Klimt's "The Kiss" as my inspiration.
The Bed is a painting of me curdled in my boyfriend's arm every night on bed.
His arm is the most comfortable place on earth. 
I can feel love I can feel secure I can feel happiness I can feel his shower of endless love.
He would kiss my forehead gently and tells me he loves my curly baby hair.
Our dog headie always sleeps on our quilt near my feet weighing all of our quilt and causes us not to have any. We often have to lift him up and pull the quilt, doing these two actions at the same time.


From Vienna to Paris - we watched the movie "Midnight in Paris" on a Friday night. Another awesome movie.


What's your golden? A strong theme throughout the movie.
Well my golden age would be 1950s.  I am a vintage fan. 
I love vintage clothes and accessories I love old songs I love old movies I love old folks! 
One thing we learnt from "Midnight in Paris" is that no matter what era we are living in, we must create what's beautiful that belongs to the era we are living in! Not trying hard to copy ancient masters' masterpieces! 
I can tell from first hand experience how difficult it is when I was trying to paint like Klimt's "The Kiss". 
That is not me, that is Klimt's style. 
So what is my style? What is my inspiration? What do I like?  I must find my own style in my own era!


The next day on Saturday afternoon, we watched "Made in Paris" (1966) from tv (I really enjoy watching old films), and watched "Backstage" (2005) at night. 
On Sunday afternoon we watched a black and white Parisian movie again from tv! 4 Parisan movies in 3 days?! These movies were filmed in different eras but there is one common thing about Parisan movies- 
Pont Neuf ( the arch bridge in Paris). 
It's so funny to watch the directors from different eras shooting the films under the same Pont Neuf !


"Give me a break!" my boyfriend said. 
Too much of Paris in 3 days, or maybe it's a sign? A sign for us to visit to Paris?

2 comments:

  1. BFF~ This is such a beautiful painting. I can't stop starring at the painting. So, you gonna hang this painting on the room's wall or living hall?

    I am glad to hear that you're living well and great with kw. Stay sweet :) You always have my best wishes xoxo.

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  2. BFF! You are always fast and supportive! That's why I love you!

    Haha there is no space to hang this painting, so it is temporary placed on the dining table :P

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