Go to an exhibition with my friends

On March 7th 2009, I went to the Nanjing Museum with my friends Nelly, Doria and Kathleen. We arrived there at about 9:30a.m. The Nanjing Museum is big and beautiful. It is at No.321 Zhongshan East Road, Nanjing. The name of the exhibition was Chinese Cultural Relics Exhibition.

We went to one of the exhibition halls. There were many kinds of things in it, like some silk, jades, ceramics and so on in Ming and Qing Dynasties. We chose this museum not only because our friends introduced us to go there, but also because this museum has a lot of exhibits and a long history. This museum is one of the earliest museums created by China. It is a large comprehensive provincial-level historical and art museum. This museum's exhibition was free; the ticket of the exhibition was recycling. This was the practice of environment protection.

I like a lot of exhibits in this museum; I thought there were all beautiful and exquisite. I took many pictures with them. I supposed my favorite exhibit was "Screen with Flower and Bird Design Inlaid with Precious Stones". This Chinese Cultural Relics was made in Qing Dynasties A.D. 1644-1911. This exhibit had very delicate patterns. The birds on it like the real ones. They all had different actions and appearances. One of them was looking at the branches, one of them was lowering its head, one of them was combing its hair and another was flying to the sky. I thought this exhibit was really vivid and interesting.

I like this exhibition very much; I thought it was interesting, meaningful and useful. Through this exhibition I knew many things that I did not know before. Our Chinese Cultural was extensive and profound. It has a long history. These exhibits contain a lot of artistic value and historical value. Although the world is developing and changing everyday, these exhibits were still important and valuable. We should go to more exhibitions like this, and learn more Chinese traditional culture. It is useful forever.

Go to an Exbihition with Ms. hadley's class

We went to an exhibition with Ms. Hadley's class on November 4. The title of the exhibition is Wu Weishan Cultural Figures Sculpture Show. The artwork was made by an artist called Wu Weishan. It is both traditional and contemporary.


I think the most interesting artwork was "Play Jokes on you". It was made in 2006. The artist has used rectangle and many other sharp shapes. The lines are hard and strong. It can show that the Ma Sanli is thin and tall. He is a famous comedian. He has strong will and he is staunch. The color of it is brown. It was made of mud. The subject of "Play Jokes on You" is Ma Sanli. You can see the comedian Ma Shali is holding up the finger and playing jokes on you. It looks like a real man is standing in front of me.


I like the artwork. It makes me feel funny and interested because of the person's funny face and action. This made me think about a performance of a comedian Ma Shali was telling jokes on the stage. The audience was all laughing happily and had a good time. The artwork relates to comedies in the world. The artwork shows a comic dialogue. The comic dialogues and comedies are all funny performances. They all make people laugh.


This artwork can show us Ma Shali's strong and the spirit of never give up because the lines of it are very strong and hard. I learnt a lot from it. I know a successful people should have these qualities and I should work hard to be a nice person like Ma Shali. Although Ma Shali is a successful and interesting comedian, he has many moving stories. Through the artwork I can know the difficulties of him and learn good spirit from him. I think other people might appreciate the artwork because person Ma Shali is famous and almost every Chinese knows him, so it is easy for every Chinese to appreciate the artwork about him. The spirit and the fun in everyone are all the same, even in the people who from other countries, I think. They are all shown by the artwork completely. I think other people all can appreciate the good things of the artwork.


The exhibition was about sculpture art. I like this exhibition, because I think it was close to the true life. Although they were all about the famous people, they can remind me of many things in my life. For example,” Play Jokes on you" made me think of my experience in the New Year. I watched comedy that performed by Ma Shali with my parents, we laughed loudly because of the jokes that he played. I think the artist's intention is to remind people of these cultural figures and their personalities. It can make people to learn their spirits and characters from them. I thought it was interesting, because the artwork showed different people's different faces. They maybe smile, poker face, angry, quiet or laugh. They were like real people. I was very interested in 3D artwork, so I like the exhibition very much.


I felt happy that day, I took many photos and we also met Wu Weishan there. I felt excited because of this. I think this excursion is meaningful and useful; I am looking forward to going to an exhibition again.

GUEST ARTIST

INTRODUCTION

All the grade 10 students went to the big meeting room to listen to Mr. Zhao’s talk on December 2, 2008 at 4:15.He is a famous garden designer. He traveled to many different countries and saw a lot of gardens from different places.


SUMMARY

First, Mr. Zhao talked us the history of the gardens. Second, he talked us something about how to design gardens. He said that different places have different garden designing. The most famous gardens are in Su Zhou. Every year many tourists go to Su Zhou gardens because it is known not only in China but also in the world.


The most famous gardens in Su Zhou are Zhao Yuan, Yi Yuan, Wang Shi Yuan, Ou Yuan and Zhou Zheng Yuan. In most of them use water, hills and plants wisely to make the gardens more beautiful. If you go to the Su Zhou gardens, you can enjoy the beauty of the nature. You will be attacked by many flowers and trees, they all in a good organization. In different seasons you can see different view. People always walked around the gardens. They can enjoy the fresh air, the sunshine, strange stones and lovely goldfish. You also can see many rockworks in the gardens. They are very interesting. They have different shapes and sizes. Some look like a monkey, some look like an old man, the others look like a small hill. Although they are rockworks, they all look like the true rocks. The rule of how to design rockworks is the higher rockworks are bigger and the lower rockworks are smaller. Many people think that the most important part in Su Zhou gardens is lakes. The water in the lakes is green and clean. You can see the bottom of the lakes and the goldfish swim in the lakes. They can connect one part to the others and make them look like a whole. The covered corridors also can work the same.


RESPONSE

I think each garden is a mirror of a culture and history. My favorite part of the talk is enjoying the photos of different gardens. I can see different view in different seasons in the gardens. Each of them all has their special parts. I learnt a lot of things from the talk. I think it is interesting and useful experience.