Hou Jingqi
Yayoi Kusama
Yayoi Kusama who born in Japan in 1929 is one of the greatest artists in the world today. Her work is grouped by critics into quite a bit categories. Including Feminism,Surrealism and so on. There are two important periods in the art career of Yayoi Kusama: After the 60s of last century in New York, she became an avant-garde artist who shocked the world. After 1980s in Tokyo, she became a representative of Asian visual arts with dots.
Yayoi always draws a lot of repeated dots and some abstract images because she was heavily influenced by her hallucination. She could see that every corner of her home was covered with dots when she was ten years old. After a long time, she began to look for dots from herself and the cosmos, and explore the true meaning of life.
I think everyone is an independent individual in society. However, when it comes together, it becomes a whole. As Yayoi’s painting, every dot is different, but it is inseparable from each other. So her painting is whole society, is whole world even a whole cosmos.
I remember Yayoi said:Art makes me understand life, death and all living things. So she express love and peace and some beautiful things through art. We should respect each other, everyone in the world are friend because we are together. The work of art should be advanced in the times and should be endowed with the meaning of existence. She touched me in my favorite way.
Grayson Perry
Grayson Perry likes religious art, and his works often show some traditional artistic forms in Western paintings and the elements of mysterious Eastern religious. Not only perfectly combines high art and popular culture, the Eastern tradition and the Western civilization, but also made the audience feel the intensely personal style and the message of the times conveyed in his art works.
The traditional factors in his works have influenced me and have greatly helped me explore the role and influence of traditional factors in contemporary art.
Qiu Zhijie
Qiu Zhijie’s work ‘ World Map Project ’ is more self-explanatory than the work exhibited by Venice Biennale. The ancient Chinese traditional style map constructed with landscapes and inks weaves concepts, individuals, things and events together. In this case it seems that traditional art forms actually reflect the contemporary side. Qiu Zhijie has been exploring the direction of future art development. He has used images and installations to create various forms of maps in the series of maps in the past decade, even with the Institute of Artificial Intelligence, the interactive software installation art ‘ Jingdong AI Generation Map ’ was co-operated. The traditional factors in his work and the exploration of the future direction have influenced me.
Andy Warhol
His works are full of symbols and re-use and are is closely related to the consumption era. His classic works "Marilyn Monroe" and “Campbell’s Soup Cans “ made a lasting impact and were popular among the public in the 1960’s. It can be said that Andy's work has no originality, but Warhol understands the commercial goods, and the essence of the goods is repetition. Warhol used the "favorable conditions" of screen printing to recreate, making countless repetitive images with different sets of colors, so that each item is the same but different, capitalizing on the production process. This turned into a feature for which Andy Warhol is renowned. Re-creating with the available resources immediately forms his own style, is this opportunistic or an artistic talent? In expressing his philosophy of the era of consumption, print was made for him. In a sense, Andy Warhol made a new interpretation in the traditional art form of screen printing.
David Hockney
Artist David Hockney once questioned the Focus perspective presented in the works of some famous Artists, such as: Angel, Caravaggio and Van Dyck. His photographic collage uses a camera to take pictures of object or a different part of a person, which he then combines into a whole picture, a work with countless focus. When the viewer looks at any part, the picture is established. This way softens the different times and spaces together creating visual offsets, overlapping, and creating a layered collage. This has a great impact on my exploration of collage and space.
Alighiero Boetti
the Arte Povera Artist Alighiero Boetti hired Afghan women workers to make handmade letter woven blankets designed by the Artist himself, allowing the female workers the freedom to create colors according to their ideas. “Afghan women workers create graphic poems through their identification and arrangement of symbols. From the original behavior, the accented syllable was born, and the rhythm of poetry was born, thus the art was born. ” His work influenced me in the use and randomness of materials.