Wu Weishan's sculpture at the exhibition

We went to Nanjing University to see an exhibition on Dec 4th. The artist Wu Weishan made a lot of artworks. There were a lot of artworks made by Wu Weishan. These artworks are both contemporary and traditional.

We saw some of the artworks at the entrance of the museum first. I like the artwork which is called SLEEPING BABY. This artwork was made in 1998. When Wu went to his friend home, he saw the sleeping baby. This artwork is small in size. This artwork was made by bronze, and it is brown. It is a shape of a baby’s head. The subject of this artwork is the baby who was sleeping. The baby was opening his mouth and rising his head.

I felt harmonious when I saw this artwork. The baby was sleeping. He may be having a beautiful dream. Beautiful dream is the spirit of this artwork. This artwork lets me related purity. When the baby is sleeping, he does not know anything. He has a sweet dream. He does not the darkness of the world. He just has peace in his world.

I like this artwork, because it is contemporary. I feel relaxed when I saw this artwork. It is very amazing, Mr. Wu use soil to make the artwork. Even though the child’s face looks a little bit rough, but the line of his face still very clearly. The child’s mouth has a little open. It may sleep deeply and sweet. I like this artwork, because I think in this child’s dream may have another nice world. I also want to have a sweet dream which baby have. He has no things he needs to worry about. When I stood in front of this artwork, I could not speak very loudly. I am really afraid of damaging this child’s nice dream. May be other people will not like this artwork. I asked some friends ,one of them told me ,he do not like this artwork. He said he felt the child just like a dead person. Also it is not very lovely. It is not active.
From the exhibition I learn how to critique an art work. It includes DESCRIBE, INTERPRET and JUDGE. We also need to know how the artist’s feeling and what the intention that artist thinking. We learn how to find the art in our life, the most beautiful art in our life should us to use heart to understand. This exhibition is meaningful. I love this exhibition. I am so admire Wu Weishan. He is a great person. He can find the spirit of the objects. Chinese traditional art is to show the spirit of the artwork. Wu Weishan uses his wisdom to show Chinese culture to the world. He uses his artwork to influence people. His artworks show the wish of people. Art is an great thing.

The dinner with Grade 12 Mentors

We had a dinner with Grade 12 students on December 23rd.We ate at the Mexico restaurant TACOS. We had wanted to go to another Mexico restaurant, but that restaurant had not opening. So we went to TACOS. TACOS is not very expensive for the students and near the NFLS We met at the TACOS maybe at 6:30 clock. Then we order food for dinner.
This restaurant is very beautiful. I thought everyone in it will have a good dinner for themselves because of atmosphere. The menu of food is very beautiful. I ordered a 9 inches pizza with Edward and Chris, a glass of juice and Sausage Rolls. However, the real food was not like on the menu. Maybe fewer than the menu. Also, the flavor of food was very salt, I didn’t like this feel. The waiter just had little work for us and very impolite, We waited for 30 minutes. It didn’t as well as Chinese food restaurant.
This restaurant is clean and quiet. It have lots of beautiful art piece. The toilet is very interesting. We felt not cold in it. I should say, the environment of restaurant was prefect. But i thought the polite of waiters should be improve. Food was delicious for us. We like this area!
I learnt how to use fork and knife and the different between the Chinese and Mexico. This is a value chance to help me to learnt more about western culture. Grade 12th students were polite for us and talked many funny things in GCA. I really like this dinner!!