Jianuo Li

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RRJ#3

September 22, 2009

Reference: Carol, V. (2009, September 21). Art among friends is up for sale

Retrieved September 22, 2009 from

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/22/arts/design/22merce.html?em

Summary:

In Carol’s article, the painting” Dancer on a Plane” ,which drew the dancer named Merce Cunningham was becoming famous. This painting was drawing in 1981 by Jasper Johns. Because of Cunningham’s beautiful position, the artiest like to draw him. The other famous painting is an abstract black-and-white ink drawing from 1953, the name of the artiest is Philip Guston. The composer John Cage had another famous painting that painted by Robert Rauschenberg. All of these three artiest were work in Cunningham’s company as advisers. These three paintings have high price.

Reaction:

In this article, the writer is talk about the painting and through his description that show people the artistic of the paintings. Art, no matter the painting or dance, they are all similar. The real art can let people feel comfortable and how beautiful the life is. Now, people have better life, and they think about the worthy of the painting. But art is the thing that can console people on their mind. The worthy of the paintings are invaluable. As same as dancing, it always improve your appreciative level to understand more artistic things and this ability is useful in many ways. The wonderful painting should be keeping in a right way, but as time gone, people also can draw better painting. For the career of art, the past is classical, the future is creativity.