Renee Yuan

Edward J. Steichen

Edward J. Steichen used a plate camera to take this image. He wrote that he focussed on the foreground, which he would have been able to view on the ground glass at the back of the camera. The woods in the background would have been too dark for him to see on the ground glassContinue reading “Edward J. Steichen”

Walker Evans

Walker Evans is one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. His elegant, crystal-clear photographs and articulate publications have inspired several generations of artists, from Helen Levitt and Robert Frank to Diane Arbus, Lee Friedlander, and Bernd and Hilla Becher. The progenitor of the documentary tradition in American photography, Evans had the extraordinary ability toContinue reading “Walker Evans”

Critical Annotation related “Me, and Your Shadows”

The thinking flow in critical framework always been a constant point which helps artists to make up their own artworks go through from there. To be more specific way that always going to help creator tracing back to the root of kindness from individual inner mentalities and sensibilities. When I started to browse and collectContinue reading “Critical Annotation related “Me, and Your Shadows””

Vincent Van Gogh

“I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say: he feels deeply, he fells tenderly.” Vincent Van Gogh Almond branches are a subject that Van Gogh visited a few times before. In earlier studies, he painted cut branches set in a vase – as a still life. In this picture, BlossomingContinue reading “Vincent Van Gogh”

The Funeral

Reflective Note The emotions are expressed by image has always been one of my research subjects. From this group of works, the visual sense not just go through by angle changes, it also uses the way people behave and live to imprint the atmosphere of spot on pictures. I found when I started to recordContinue reading “The Funeral”