#4 | 'Pursuit of Happiness' & 'Creativity and Innovation'.

No pictures available because we forgot to take photos. My group started out pretty good for the pursuit of happiness but we end up with only 3 points which is very very little. And soon, we found the problem. We were thinking of what the general audience would feel happy with and not how we felt. So that's when we started giving more ideas of what happiness means to each of us. Simple things like going to the theme park for a day with your love ones is happiness. As for creativity and innovation, we had problems because due to busy schedules and language barrier. I did not know how to explain to my group mate what the topic means in Mandarin. And after everything was made clear, we did half of it together and I went home to complete it myself because we were too busy with our own stuffs so we could not meet up to do. As there are only 3 of us in a group, it wasn't easy to complete 2 mind maps due to lesser ideas. I felt that this exercise allowed our creativity to run wild and relatively easy, the only thing difficult for me was the contribution part from every member because of different schedules.

#3 | Three Artist That Broke The Rules.

In my opinion, every artist have their own unique way of expressing themselves through art. But all of them share something in common, which is their passion for art. I don't know of much artists so I did quite a bit of research, so here are my "3 Artist That Broke The Rules".

#1. Vincent Van Gogh

Van Gogh was a self taught artist. He is known for his bold and dramatic brush strokes which he used to express himself. His bold palette is definitely the reason why even up till now, he is consider as one of the best artist. One of my favourite work of his is definitely "Starry Night". I even tried to do it when I was in Primary School. The technique that actually attracted me the most was the brush strokes because he did not do blending. 
Fun fact: My O' Level course work's artist reference was him because I was very attracted to his "Starry Night" ever since I knew about it and so I used the swirls for my background.






#2. Boerhanoedin Affandi Koesoema

Affandi was also a self taught artist just like Van Gogh. He was regarded as the Indonesian Van Gogh due to his similar techniques used, like his layering of paint, bold colours and brush strokes. He was always known for squeezing paint directly out of the tube and using his hands instead of paint brushes because he felt more freedom to express his feelings this way. I also did tried to do one of his works as my assignment and even when to his museum at Yogyakarta last year. I was very inspired by him because of how different his works are from other artists as it is more abstract. Below are a few of my favourite works by him.






#3. Pierre Bonnard

Like I said, I do not know much artists so I got to know about Pierre Bonard when I was researching for my IVA homework. He is recognised for his unique use of colour and his complex imagery. Unlike other artist, Bonnard did not paint from life. He drew his subject, sometimes photographing it and take notes on the colours. He then goes home, go through his notes and start to reflect and imagine. Like what Jed Perl said, his works are a combination of visual taste, psychological insight and poetic feeling which is why I'm in love with his paintings.

#2 | 100 Ways.

This week's homework is to think of 100 ways to do different things. I felt that this task was pretty good as it allows us to really think and get creative. Everyone in the group would come up with different ways and from there, it made me understand that everyone's has their own way of thinking. I can think of a way that completely did not cross their mind and vice versa. I also think that having group projects are great as we get to interact more with our classmates since we're still not very close with each other. I hope we get to do more of group projects with different classmates so we can get to understand and learn more from different classmates coming from different family background, having different interest etc.