The Surreal House Review

‘The Surreal House’ which is hold in Barbican Art Gallery. It is the first time to explore the relevances between surrealism and architecture. The exhibition describes the senses of surrealism by variety kinds of the imaginations. It revolves the surrealism to curation of the exhibition.

The Surreal House shows about 150 imaginations art works including the first generation Surrealists such as Dali, Duchamp and Giacometti. Not only are there the artistes with their architectures but also with more specifics of the houses.

The downstairs gallery is used to represent the inside of a house. The visitor could ‘see’ the house in the curation of the exhibition that is defined by sounds, lights and installations. They are all designed to affect the solipsistic sense. All of the art imagines the whole house. The architecture builds the house comes from Rebecca Horn’s Concert for Anarchy (1990). The sculptures describe the house by many works. The presented works is Metal Fucking Rats by Tim & Sue(2007). The main inspiration is ‘consistently inconsistent’ which is a representation of real life. The films perform the house, such as ‘Meshes of the afternoon’ by Maya Deren(April 29 1917). The narrative of the film repeats a number of psychological symbolic images. The film is the only work I spend a long time which is the most interesting artwork as I think in the exhibition. It is illusion of a woman’s dream. When the woman was walking back to her home she saw someone on the street. Then she went into the room and felt asleep. In her dream, she repeatedly tried to chase a mysterious hooded man but she can not catch him anyway. She also re-renters her room and saw many household objects such as keys, knives, flowers, a telephone and a phonograph. It’s a vested show and the overall impression is so organization and fresh. I would love to say I fancy the colour of the film and those rhythmic repeated scenes.

On the upstairs there are lots of wonderful works from different art styles. Such as Salvador Dali’s Sleep (1937) and Roberto Matta’s Cosmic Architecture.

To sum up, The Surreal House exhibition is quite interesting and the form of the exhibition is extraordinary, pioneering and experimental. I quite like the way of the exhibition and the most of art works in the show, even I just browse around. If I have any extra time in the future, I think I will go to the Surreal House again. And I would like to recommend it to my friends, it is the time to find out by yourself.


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GOOD DESIGN IN THE DIGITAL AGE

SUMMARIZE:

The definition and evaluation of 'Good Design'.Good design is good business. The good design is a phrase from the past .It's nit only focused on narrow selection of good designs. In the past the definition of good design was 'solidity ,commodity and delight.' In the past good design didn't consider context of use ,especially daily life.Today,greatest change in good design.The good design not just visual but also engage the user community by humanizing technology.The wrong idea is that many people thought design mean veneer.

Designers need to build consumer's trust. First ,the product must be usable.Second ,the designer must understand the human needs and the limitation of users in order to engage users. The first encounter with product is not only usability which alone is not enough to create trust but also need to create desirability.The method to achieve this is to learn the relationship with marketing experts and add cultural expressions.

The conclution of the good design is balance of usefulness,usability and desirability.

London Game

There are 2 respect I want to talk about.
First, London is a long history country.I like the old things come from London .Maybe sometimes I could heard of the old things are talking about their history.Also I think everything has the life ,and they just can't says like people.I like the old street ,old door，doorplate，especially the Manhole Cover.

The Manhole Cover could show the different district because the details are not the same.I want to make it like a monopoly.

Second,London is a big city for strangers,absolutely including me.So the city looks like a big maze for me.It's strage ,puzzle,and exciting for me.So I want to make the works look like a monopoly.

The Surreal House--1

"The Surreal House "which was holded in barbican artgallery is the first to explore the relevance of surrealism for architecture. The show described the sense of surrealism by all of the art imagines.This show revolved the surrealism to curation of the exhibition.

The Surreal House shows about 150 imaginations art works including the first generation Surrealists such as Dali,Duchamp and Giacometti.Not only the artistes with their architecture but also with more specifically the house.

The downstairs galleries will be used to represent the inside of a house.The visitor could 'see' the house in the curation of the exhibition which will be defined by sound, light and installations,all designed to affect the solipsistic sence.All of the art imagines the whole house.The architecture buils the house comes from Rebecca Horn's Concert for Anarchy (1990).The sculpture describe the house by many works.The presented works is Metal Fucking Rats by Tim & Sue(2007).The main inspiration is 'consistently inconsistent' which to representation of life with real.The film perform the house ,such as 'Meshes of the afternoon' by Maya Deren(April 29 1917).The film's narrtive is circular and repeats a number of psychologically smybolic images.It's a vasted show and the overall impression is so organization and fresh.

On the upstairs there are some wonderful works from different art style.But curators gambit peters out upstairs by the reasons of the surrealism-architecture link is revealed such as Salvador Dali's sleep(1937).

The Surreal House exhibition overall effect is interesting enough,and the exhibition form is a fresh game attempt. Myriad levels of ideas that are there for exploration and the quantity of material on display .