Went to the Melbourne Art festival yesterday. Saw some amazing paintings in oil + acrylic, and also interesting mixed media creations. Some interesting artwork were car paint on aluminium, traditional paintings on rice paper - the japanese style uses a lot of warm colours and golden colours. Other artforms like glass menagerie, which we liked a lot because the glass fish had coloured patterns inside it! There were several arty jewellery tents too - one had glass jewellery backed with silver which reflected light and made the jewellery real shiny. Another had jewellery made from small hand painted silk screens
One guy used things like strings, pulleys in a stacked art form. For instance, one that I liked a lot was a stack of 4 canvasses. The top canvas placed horizontally was the hands of an artist holding puppet strings. Just beneath that, on a vertical canvas was a smoky image of a human - as if it is a spirit, the adjoining vertical canvases had pieces of real string coming out from the top canvas placed artistically. The other one I liked was the Nokia-type image, the human hand touching divine hand image.. the divine hand was backlit through vibrant colours - and guess what! a piece of electric wires :)
But what inspired me the most was the photography section. I take a lot of photographs myself, and I could take it up. As my mom says: स्वान्त सुखाय ।
One guy used things like strings, pulleys in a stacked art form. For instance, one that I liked a lot was a stack of 4 canvasses. The top canvas placed horizontally was the hands of an artist holding puppet strings. Just beneath that, on a vertical canvas was a smoky image of a human - as if it is a spirit, the adjoining vertical canvases had pieces of real string coming out from the top canvas placed artistically. The other one I liked was the Nokia-type image, the human hand touching divine hand image.. the divine hand was backlit through vibrant colours - and guess what! a piece of electric wires :)
But what inspired me the most was the photography section. I take a lot of photographs myself, and I could take it up. As my mom says: स्वान्त सुखाय ।
