In this project “London A-Z” I chose the area below to research it is a very peace region located in Knightsbridge with 3 museums (Victoria & Albert Museum, Natural History Museum and Science Museum) and imperial college, which is one of the famous college in London.
While doing research in this area,I noticed a los of things that impress me deeply and then I recorded them in my sketchbook.I decided to go there by metro , when I arrived there I found there is a Poppy Appeal in the station. After asking for some information from the volunteers and knows it is situated for supporting the Armed Force community past and present. I decided to donated ten pounds and then I get an cute poppy brooch.
And then I went to the museums outside in exhibition road, first of all I went to the Natural History Museum. It impressed me with its skeleton of the whale in the hall, so I draw this sketch while visiting there. Science museum is also interesting I record how human developed from 8000BC To 2015 in my sketchbook.I loved the collection there very much!
At first I wanted to make a magazine about the museums or about the human being history because I visited the science museum.
Then I went to the V&A museums, i already visited there plenty of times. And this time I discovered a lot of exquisite snuffbox like this there
Then I found out these box forms are the group of snuffboxes associated with Frederick II, the Great of Prussia.
I always know that Frederick was a cultivated admirer of the arts and he had a passion for gold boxes, and showed a keen interest in their design. He carried a box at all times; one is even said to have saved his life by deflecting a bullet during the battle of Kunersdorf in 1759, because I read Friedrich und die große koalition (Frederick and the great Coalition)written by Thomas Mann but it is the first time for me to see these tiny box with lavish decoration, I almost want to cry the time I saw them. So I think it will be the theme of my magazine For the secondary research, I chose 4 artist who are famous for their paintings and installations, they are Antony Gormley, Yayoi Kusama, Murakami Takashi and Félix Valloton because I saw some exhibition about them this month. I went to UAL library to borrow some books about them, and in there I find a book named Hermann Hesse: His mind and art.
After reading this book I found that the fifth artist that I want to do research about is Hermann Hesse, this novelist, poet and painter. Because in my mind littérature is also a important art form, and I am a fan of German literature and Morden German philosophy .He is one of the artists who influenced me the most because they encourage me in my lowest moment and stop my conceit and arrogance which deluded me into believing I was important. I love his distribution about art, he said that art was a union of the father and mother world, of mind and blood in Narziss und goldmund (Narziss and goldmund).
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