Simmon Faithfull

Simmon Faithfull is an English artist based in Berlin and London. Simmon's drawings often involve elements of failure and anti-heroism.His works revolve around research and experiments, and during the course of the past few years he has become known for his Lecture Performances that will often accompany his exhibitions. He's well known as a palm pilot artist. His drawings look very unique because it doesn't look like real paintings, but digital drawings to me. It seems like using a palm pilot forces to have the same rigor when one's attempting to express a very subjective experience of a point in time. His drawings are quite simple enough to understand...nothing abstract...the lines of his drawings are not really straight or distinct. My favorite drawing of his is the second one with the black background and with white drawing lines.. it is amazing that I can really picture the place in my head by looking at his drawing.

Amy cutler

Amy Cutler is an american artist. She has created a fantasy that is childlike but often perplexing. Inspired by stories and images encountered in current events and history. When I looked at her paintings, I recall my childhood. I used to see similar pictures of hers in fairy tales and dream of the characters in the fairy tale. On the other hand, there is a dark quality to her painting and there is also mysterious painting of women in dream like activities. I think in her most of her drawings most of women seem to be appeared. People in her drawings are always holding something as well. I don't know what she wants to express and show through this drawing but her drawings made me figure out what the meanings of her works. I really thought her drawings were very creative!

Sam Durant

Sam Durant is a multimedia artist whose works engage a variety of social, political, and cultural issues. Often referencing American history, his work explores the varying relationships between culture and politics, engaging subjects as diverse as the civil rights movement, southern rock music, and modernism. His work has been widely exhibited internationally and in the United States. First two works of Sam Durant is an architecture of house or building, some kind of model. He uses simple materials to create this elaborate work. I am not sure what kind of messages of emotions he tries to express through this art work. When I was first looking at his work, I thought he would be an architect rather than an artist. The last work is "Indian female", which is made of some kind of simple material also. It looks like he duct-tapped the arms. For some reason, the indian female's one arm is amputated. His works are very different from the past three artists I explored. But, most of them used simple material to create an elaborate work. I thought every artist has a different ability to twist art into their own color by using simple art supply.

Yun-Fei JI

I picked a chinese artist Yun-Fei Ji for this week's journal. The reason why I picked an asian artist is I wanted to compare Ji's drawings to Western or European drawings. Ji's drawings have a feel that is defferent from both Western and European pieces of and is similar to many other Asian countries.Ji  uses rice paper with translucent ink or paint based on natural pigment. Most of his drawings are the expressions of the failure of the communist utopia in China. The first drawing fascinated me because I didn't know it was an animal looking human who is riding a horse when I first was looking at it. Exploring new types of art which I have ever experienced was awesome. I think his drawings are various, and, in most of his drawings, I can feel different kinds of emotional stages.