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Art Critic Review 18

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Artist:
周莹 Zhou Ying
Gender: Female

Artwork: 在天堂跳舞- 夏天No. 1布面油画Zai Tiantang Tiaowu – Xiatian No. 1 Bumian Youhua (At paradise dance – Summer No. 1 Oil painting on canvas)

1st Impression:
This looks like an underwater slumber party for girls who have no minds. The girls are crazed or have become zombies for the advertisement market and desperately want the cosmetics. Nothing will stop these girls getting these products even the cost of their lives by going under the water to get them. Nail polish spills out into the water and mixes with it so that it pollutes their minds and brainwashes them into want more products and they go into a killing frenzy to get these products.

Good Points:
The cosmetics even though they are the focal point of this piece they are not as well developed as the water or the girls in this piece. They have good shading and form but lack the substance the girls and cosmetics have. The highlights and shadows on the cosmetics have been done really well but not to the level of being a strong point yet.

Bad Points:
The water and background for this piece has been copied off internet website image because one of my friends who is an artist has the same exact image but they had fruit or other objects being dropped underwater. The reason this is a bad point is that the water and background is not an original idea even though the artist is trying to pass it off as an original idea.

Strong Points:
The water that has been sloshed around is probably the best part about this painting since the highlights, shadows, and details have been meticulously done unlike a lot of artist I have seen in the past who have tried to do water. The girls in this piece have a realistic look to them but yet it is cartoonish and nightmarish feel to it since the eyes of the girls have no pupils or anything the eyes so when you look into their eyes you see nothing there. A little bit creepy for some people to handle this kind of thing.

Weak Points:
The hair on the girls has no real definition to them. Yes, they have some highlights and a few shadows but it seems that the hair is the one piece that was not paid attention to or avoided by the artist. Probably the reason it has less detail is that hair is the hardest thing for most people to paint or draw.

How to do this painting better:
I would change the weak points into good points and the good points I would then turn into strong points. Even though the water is copied from something else and it looks really good the artist should come up with their own original concept for using water.

Final Impression:
A lot of artist and people would argue with me about the water in the background being the artist original idea and maybe the artist herself would argue that point. I would have to say that she had to have something for reference to paint from to get these kind of details and I don’t think she took the photo herself. I like the piece actually because I find it interesting and a really good idea but the artist needs to work more with it. The artist has good technique, style, presentation but the ideas need a little more work.


Final Suggestions:
If the artist could come up with original ideas for the water and continue using these ideas creating new art then I could see the artist possibly making it to the international artist community but for now I only seeing her being in the Chinese artistic community. It is a good piece for the southwest of China and maybe for Shanghai exhibitions but she will need to work on her style to bring it up to a higher level.
Image size
1304x1676px 169.21 KB
Make
EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY
Model
KODAK Z7590 ZOOM DIGITAL CAMERA
Shutter Speed
1/239 second
Aperture
F/3.2
Focal Length
18 mm
ISO Speed
80
Date Taken
Feb 3, 2005, 3:41:18 PM
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