Art Review: Fountain In The Year Of 1917

I remembered that in my secondary school, I had one art class every week. During the class, I watched the operas like Cats and Phantom of the Opera, photography and printing etc. At that time, I learnt a lot like the history of the art and how art inspires our vision to appreciate aesthetics. The art course not only brings such knowledge to us, but also makes us feel relaxed. Though art, I reveal myself as an aesthetics seeker, loving to be involved in different artwork and having my own sense of art appreciation.

Some conceive art course as boring and time-wasting, but I think it is an indispensable regulator of our life. What it inspires me the most is the art history, it tells me that how art discovering the reality of that era. Art affects

Art affects me in terms of historical and contemporary contextualization. Every art school has its own history and the history can let us understand more about the past. Impressionism is one of the styles telling the reality. Claude Monet, Édouard Manet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir are the representatives of the impressionism. Paintings like light color usages change the artwork expression. They chose the realistic path of Gustave Courbet, portraying the natural scenery and real life. Like the artist Edouard Manet, he had an art called Olympia is to excuse for the prostitution in the big cities.

Also, art brings us to be a critical thinker in which the artists will express some messages through their art pieces. Whether upholding the messages they convey requires our critical thinking. Example includes Pop Art from the background of ideology and social development, pop art in the 1960s to resist the authoritative culture and the art on the shelf, not only resisting against the traditional academic school, but also the negative elements of modern art, nihilism Anarchism. This is the spiritual core what mainly the Pop Art wants to express. Yayoi Kusama

In the trip, we could see diverse types of art and know the development of Hong Kong art gallery. Also, we met an enthusiastic staff in one of the galleries. He told us very detailed about those art displaying in the galleries and what the artist wanted to express through the art. In the time, we were lucky that we grasp difference types of galleries showing the abstract expressionism and post- impressionism. The trip was an opportunity for us to develop our ideas. Hong Kong is one of the busy countries in the world even students have a lot of stress in facing their academics and interpersonal relationships. Through art, we can express our feelings through art? Not only the negative feeling, but also the positive sides of our unforgettable