Xiong Wenyun

In taking this course, I have learned about the site We-make-money-not-art, which has become one of my favorite websites. On their homepage the image on the left immediately struck me. Taken by artist Xiong Wenyun in China, this photograph illuminates the aesthetic value of an otherwise normal cabin for the viewer. The bold red door adds a hint of color to a monotonous color scheme on the route from Beijing to Tibet.




This next picture I chose to display is from the same collection, titled "Moving Rainbow." The title originated from the collection's use of color, as well as, the Tibetan culture which views "rainbows as God's ladders that bridge the Earthly sphere with the celestial." The reason I chose to include it on the blog is because, although it wasn't as initially visually stimulating to me as the first picture, I enjoyed reading about the artist's message. Like Xiong, I too value the relationship between people and the Earth.

While exploring we-make-money-not-art, I decided to check out Art in Seoul, seeing as I have no idea where Seoul is. I found a rather witty project created by Damian Ontiveros Ramirez, titled Adam Smith: a million of good reasons to become a millionaire. The reason I believe that this piece interests me so much is because I love when I hear about things I have learned in school that I never thought I would hear about again, such as Adam Smith, a man I studied in Economics two years ago. Ramirez requested the help of some college students in recreating economist Adam Smith and plans to draw 1,000,000 portrayals of the famous economist making money by performing different actions i.e. hula hooping, as seen below. I really appreciate the humor in the piece, which is another reason why I wrote about it. It is humorous to me that the author would depict a cartoon version of an 18th century philospher/economist doing all different outlandish activities in order to make money, especially the hula hoop!