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    Eye Art International Youth Art Exhibition

    “Eye Art International Youth Exhibition” is supported by UN-HABITAT (United Nations Human Settlements Programme) Youth Empowerment and Urban Ecological Safety Committee, forming a liaison organization of young people around the world and providing a platform of exhibition, originality, communication and cooperation for young creators. Young people are characterized as brightness and hopeful. With “art” and “exhibition”, as well as public artistic activities, "Eye Art International Youth Exhibition" promotes expression, dialogue and comprehension of world culture and conveys good aspiration of co-constructing prosperous culture in the future.

    "Eye Art International Youth Exhibition" spreads around Asia, Europe and America, as well as Africa, etc. Nowadays, it has launched collection of artworks and cooperated with artistic organizations, such as China, America, Israel and Singapore, etc. "Eye Art International Youth Exhibition” has a total of three units: “Eye Art general Exhibition”, “Eye Art Invitation Exhibition” and “Eye Art Public Benefit Exhibition”. Exhibition artworks will be selected by the Eye Art organizing Committee, endowed with certificate of honor and bonus to encourage more extensive creative enthusiasm.

    “Eye Art International Youth Exhibition” consists of three units

    Unit I: “Eye Art general Exhibition”
    “Eye Art International Youth Exhibition” raises works from artistic creators below 35 years old with infinite forms of works and themes to provide an international exchange exhibition opportunity for young creators, appreciate the world through art.

    Unit II: “Eye Art Invitation Exhibition”
    Eye Art organizing Committee will invite artists.

    Unit III: “Eye Art Public Benefit Exhibition”
    "Eye Art International Youth Exhibition” is supported and endorsed by many countries and international organizations. In order to promote cross-regional and cross-cultural communication and comprehension,Eye Art Public Benefit Exhibition startes with serveal public benefit lectures.

    “Eye Art International Youth Exhibition” flow
    “Online artwork collection → Committee selection → Worldwide tour exhibition → Final comprehensive exhibition award ceremony

    Composition of the Organizing Committee:
    Executive committee;
    Curatorial committee;
    International advisory panel.



  • Selection of EyeArt · 2017


    Selection of exhibition works:

    Artists who apply for and participate in “Eye Art International Youth Exhibition” general exhibition will be qualified to elect after the selection of the committee:

    1) “Eye Art Award” winner 1: the one with kind heart is beautiful and has eyes to find out sense of beauty;
    2) “Eye Art Cultural characteristics Award” winner 3:to reflect cultural traits and cast artistic spirit;
    3) “Eye Art Best Creative Award” winner 3:to look for new star of contemporary artistic practice, concentrate on innovation and explore differences;
    4) “Best Popularity Award”winner 3: top 3 artists will be selected by the public through the website.

    “Eye Art International Youth Exhibition” works requirements and selection criteria:

    Requirements of works: original works, infinite forms and infinite themes. Notes: the committee will audit works with sensitive topics carefully and it has the right to reject.
    Number of works: Everyone should apply for 1-3 works. Information of works refers to the application form.
    Dscription of categories:
    Painting class: oil paintings, traditional Chinese paintings, calligraphies, illustrations, printmaking, lacquer paintings, sketch and paintings of plane design materials, etc. Integrated class includes sculptures, devices and photography, etc.
    Size description:
    Size of graphic works shouldn’t be more than 200 x 200cm;
    Description of uploading: Resolution 300DPI for JPEG format; document size is about 5MB.
    “Eye Art International Youth Exhibition” application methods:

    ▽ Option 1: Log onto our website: www.eyeartinternational.org. You will find guidance to submit your art works.
    ▽ Option 2: Concern official subscription “Eye Art International Youth Exhibition”, enter the page “I want to apply”, click the left bottom “read the full article”, fill in resume and upload pictures of exhibition works to finish application. 。
    ▽ Option 3: You can download the application form in the attachment, fill out the application and email the application and your art works to info@eyeartinternational.org.We will confirm your application within three days after your artworks are received.

    “Eye Art International Youth Exhibition” Supporting organizations:

    UN-HABITAT (United Nations Human Settlements Programme) Youth Empowerment and Urban Ecological Safety Committee: It is commonly launched by United Nations Human Settlements Programme and International Ecological Collaborative Organization in the 24th Habitat Council Meeting in Nairobi, with the purpose of encouraging young people to grow up, supporting for youth venture and making young people become the new generation with great ambition and wide vision.

    Global Youth Leadership Lab:Perfect world Inc. is an international cultural entertainment empire which include games,movies,education and animation fields. 2015,perfect world Inc. officially launched the project”Global Youth Leadership Lab”with China Foreign Ministry and China Education Ministry,becoming the important partner with UNESCO.

    The Hermitage Museum Foundation Israel:The Hermitage Museum is one of the world's four major museums, as famous as the Louvre in Paris, the British Museum of London, the Metropolitan Museum of New York. The Foundation is committed to the development of Israeli culture,art and the relationship between collectors, actively expand the field of youth art.

    Alfred Cooperative Institute for Art & Culture:The first professional organization in Tel Aviv, Israel, aims at the development of young art creators and the establishment of a number of art residency programs to provide creative space for more young artists.

    Penn Wharton China Center: It was commonly founded by University of Pennsylvania and Wharton School, aiming to reinforce the close relation between University of Pennsylvania and China. It is the important extension and expansion of cooperative relationship between University of Pennsylvania and China.

    Israel Chamber of Commerce: founded in 2008, it was launched by the president of Israel Monseigneur Perez in person. It is the first contact point for Israeli companies and entrepreneurs to start up business in China.

    Lavido Center: Lavido is the national make-up brand in Israel and is praised as safe and comfortable natural cosmetics by ELLE magazine. It is welcomed by European and American stars. Lavido Center is located in a sea of flowers and is the first site of various activities.

    Lufthansa AG: Lufthansa AG, referred to as Lufthansa or Texaco, is the German national airline. Lufthansa has been consistently contribute to support global art creation projects over the years and has been great helpful for this exhibition!





  • The Brochure of EyeArt





    The Brochure of EyeArt 2017 - Beijing Exhibition(Download
    The Brochure of EyeArt 2017 - UN Exhibition(Download





  • Eye Art Research - An Overview of Contemporary Youth Art

    —— Zhu Qing

    Contemporary art is changing the lives of more people. Differences arouse from the region, status, social division of labor are gradually eliminated through the exchange of contemporary art. Since the 1970s, the important significance of contemporary art in China has been shaping the art market. By the end of 2016, we saw its advanced significance in getting involved in the transformation of the socialist city. This kind of significance is mainly expressed in the following points: the active expression out of political purpose, the collective introduction of a large number of social capital, focusing of a number of industries at the same period. We believe that, along with the widespread distribution of the art groups in terms of time and space, the contradict between "universally understood" contemporary art and its avant-garde becomes the major contradiction at the present. Contemporary art is a high degree of extraction and expression of the present spirit and essence, with its theory, language, philosophy, experimentation discussed and understood in finite group. 85 New Wave is the most influential contemporary art movement in Chinese mainland. Even if the important figure in the movement, Sen Dada considers that contemporary art is under the spiritual direction of universal value, his works are not created for "universal" purpose. Today, the Death of the Sun (a massive car briquettes ash)" created by Sen Dada in 1983 and The History of Chinese Painting and the History of Modern Western Art Washed in the Washing Machine for Two Minutes created by Huang Yongping in 1987 are still difficult for many people to understand.

    Primary: see and be seen

    The arts in a broad sense include all the works and creative activities related to the aesthetic and spiritual experiences of today. A beautiful picture means that it is meaningful to the vision. Only the visual aesthetics is a kind of disinterested and purposeless aesthetics. A great artist doesn't necessarily have superb expression skills, but he must have eyes with rich aesthetic experience. So, what is beauty? The theory holds that the form of beauty is the unity of the subjective and the objective in the consciousness of the aesthetic subject. Generally speaking,it refers to the unification of the viewer and works. One aspect of beauty is the work itself, and the other aspect is the status of the viewer. Let's take the creation and appreciation of the sculpture for example. The sculptor makes the marble alive by carving, such as The Thinker created by Auguste Rodin (1840-1917). The sculpture itself is just a form, a kind of material, which is lifeless, however, it is not a simple impression from an aesthetic view, but a vivid image in our perception. In general, the way people watch things is influenced by individual knowledge, experience, beliefs and the surrounding environment. Schiller, Ferdinand Canning Scoot (1864-1937), who is the British philosopher, and a representative of pragmatism, summarized two kinds of viewing aesthetics. One is confluent beauty, which restores harmony in nervous people; the other is exciting beauty, which restores ability in relaxed people, so as to make people better. Therefore, we believe that when the works are of enough varieties, the aesthetic emotion people get when seeing the works will be more richer and real. In order to achieve this diversity, we hope that the creation subjects are of different regions, ages and identities, so we can obtain samples of diversified educational background, local culture, spiritual beliefs and so on; in addition, we should possess diversified contents, forms, media materials and technical styles of the work. Therefore, an exhibition will have more significance of scene and era.

    The function of current uncertainties.

    Generally, arts responds to the society from the humanism position. There are two tasks: one is the positive task, which is to describe a kind of universally ideal life; the other is to criticize from the side. Arts have classical expression and minimalist expression in order to achieve such tasks; some people use painting to express, some people use photography. Languages are different - the reason why artists occupy a pivotal position is that the sense of mission is so deeply-rooted.

    Many theorists have realized that it is no way that Chinese contemporary arts become contemporary arts of the West; it makes many artists and practitioners feel at sea to be forced to use Western experience directly. It makes some people unable to move forward by breaking away from the correct theory. The fundamental purpose of the college is still to inspire human nature and promote group progress. But the college language and social comprehension are disconnected. What is modernity, what is art, what is today and yesterday, what is the market, what is the taste, what is building a city with culture ... These questions should be probed into in a philosophical mode. Without them, survival would become routine, such as getting up early, dining, social interaction, investment, drinking tea, painting, etc.

    Johan Joachin Winckelmann (1717 - 1768), German art historian and archaeologist introduced ancient Greece like this: ancient Greek people are complete and harmonious. They are rich in form and content,able to be engaged in philosophical thinking and can art creation, gentle and full of power. We see perfect human nature with the combination of imaginary youth and rational adulthood in them. At that time, sensibility and reason were not clarified into two fields. And the individual himself can represent the entire mankind, and the individual Greek can express his era. But we are unable to realize that today. Since The Arts & Crafts Movement at the end of the 19th century, the social division of labor broke the individual integrity of artists, which made the designers and the architects detached from the artist group. As the technology, the Internet and intelligent technology became the driving force of the political economy - people seem to be not in urgent need of the ideological thinking of arts, setting higher standard of art than thought. On the other hand, the artist's individual thought is also torn to pieces, and art practitioners can not find their exact roles. For the artists, the disconnection between subject thought and action during the practice of contemporary art leads to the disconnection between the individual and the society, between the creation and the true expression, between the contribution and the demand; in turn the disconnection between the devotion and pay-off affects the correctness and philosophy of the subject thought.

    However, we still holds that the status of artists is crucial, while expecting that young people will change or improve the current status to a certain extent. Nowadays, young art groups generally have college background or research experience, mature mind and explore individual styles early. The above mentioned "imaginary youth" said by Winckelmann is actually youth worship, believing that young people have romantic passion, elegance and talent, which is consistent with Greek art which is full of warm praise. From 1891 to 1905, the "young art style" became popular, when the Jugendstil controlled the creation directions.In order to express its breaking with the old school, it was renamed secession, which was called Art Nouveau in France, Modern style in the UK, and Stilo Liberty in Italy. It even affected the Japanese design and architecture.

    We know that youth, not only youth, human’s nature of harmonious competition is only a concept. In every period has a huge contradiction and pain. "A young hero to declare war to the society” – Engels remarks Schiller's script "Robbers" - they put forward: I am attached to reality, or attached to the ideal? Do I attach the reality as a dissatisfying object or attach to idea. Generally speaking, if the artist chooses the first choice, then the work is ironic; choose the second case, the work is pessimistic. If the artist depicts the life or subject with flaws, or express idea out of reach, then this work will be pessimistic. If the artist depicts the natural and ideal that are positive and real, then this work is like pastoral life. But the two options should avoid to be absurd and fantastic.





  • Eye Art Research - Sample Classification of Art Youth

    —— Zhu Qing

    Youth sample discussion

    As mentioned above, there is a third case between reality and ideals? We sort out and study nearly 1,000 samples.

    The first classification:
    On the reality of "I": true, vivid, from life. Wood block Memory depicts the scene in author’s memory: grandfather for the first take me to hang out in street. The picture sense is blurred but beautiful. Paintings "Scattered", “Say things after eating”, “Secret no.53”, “the Hidden’s Sight”, "I like a bunch of fish", "Hidden Environment", "Dialogue", "Father", "Sofa", "Canvas Shoes", "So the World", “Shattered Garden Series”, “Chan” “Harvest of Fantasy”, “Dreamcatcher”, “Sleeping Animal” and ect, in which secret personal feelings in family, school, childhood are described with a technique of close shot.

    The second category:
    On the narrating and thinking grand theme related to reality : such as painting works "Social Relations", "Order and Law", drama works "Escape the Shadow", sculpture "to Be a Good Man to Look Like a Good Man". They are the thinking on the social state and personality, as well as the self-examine. Painting works "Enlightenment of Landscape”, "Tree House-x" and other works suggests commercial economy and social landscape created by modern production. Sculpture “Mountain and Stone Series”, national paintings “not Mountain, not Water”, "the Bogus Moutains", "Cloud and Water around the Taoyuan", oil paintings "wild fire and grass", "Pitti Palace’s Thinker", “Jingjing Youwei” and other works depict the mutual care between human and nature. Photography works "Chinese Feiyipeople", painting works "Heart Sutra-Font Design", sculpture "Shan Hai Jing Series", they well reflect Chinese civilization wisdom and heritage responsibility. graphic design works "empty", painting "power", “One Rice”, “Plant World”, “Jingjing Youwei”, “Fragile Scenery”, they respond to international environmental protection theme. Photographic works" Waiting", “Zhang Hong Series”, painting works" Floating Root Series "," Sharpening Workers ", “Instance Series”, watercolor works "Colorful Street", they record the lost beauty in modernization of China's urban process. The integrated materials works "Mountain is non-mountain, water is non-water", painting works "old world", "Tool Man", they are the criticisms to the mechanization development in modern civilization. The sculpture works "Dduckweed", the painting works "Life Follow”, "Aegean thinking" and other works show the value of “Life with Quietness and Attachment” in modern life.

    The third category:
    For the use and reflection of daily media: the composite material works "a Pie and a Na Have Marks" show the whole process of painting bamboo in the form of all sculptures. In painting works "Octopus", we associate the cross-driven gear from octopus tentacles, which refers to the small social individual. Painting work "Old Things" compares with valuable old clothes and old jewelry. There is no lack of ideas expressed for the concept of medium and the form: integrated material work “Traped”, is like a desire shell ting modern people. The integrated material work "Silence", chooses raw silk, plant seeds, water ink as main materials, and combines the traditional hand-assembled collage, quilted embroidery and other skills. "Lan" is the hand-stitch work of cloth sewing art. Product design work "Mutual Training" combines woolen yarn and fur. The integrated material work "Vitamin 5" uses extreme patience, boring way to form a life experience of people and thing melting. The oil painting "Mi" tries to show the construction of the sense with meaning, Giving shape with meaning, producing color with meaning in the picture. The sculpture works "Ancient Style-Tour", abstracts the ancient characters. In general, they are involved in the Chinese painting’s modern expression, the observing way of national thoughts and modern culture, the heritage and innovation of traditional art and other important themes in time. The extension of article language continues traditional concepts, ideas and forms into new experimental subjects.

    What’s more, in order to provide the best observation reference for viewers, we invite youthful artists and their works with sample meaning to attend exhibition. This kind of artist and work have finished an extreme steep process: from pure subjective experience without reliance or foundation to achieved consciousness awakening to endowed individual and external identification. ——“Decameron” is an impressive work, 30 desks storing 30 cruel, sorrow, florid exterior little worlds. Li Linlin’s installation arts, “Decameron” and “The Garden of Eden”, have a manner of her own, all kinds of illusions; most of animal bones in “Mushroom Store” are cat and dog’s bodies from pet hospital. She clearly knows her demand, responsibility and expression, “I pay a lot of attention to visual factor, and I believe whether audience will accept work’s view or not mainly depends on the visual effect of work. I don’t like the concept of cavity, and many works’ complex concepts are just for hiding the work’s simplicity, rough production. A good work must use the most shocked visual effect to convince audience, and audience can understand the work by feeling without words.”
    Cui Youwen appraised this youthful female artist that, “the most unique part of artistic production is her thinking map, while her thinking tentacles are just like endoscope migrating among interior world of life.”

    Scenes and objects of “Gene Candy”, the image work, are from internet pictures, while its producer, Lu Shanshan shattered these photos, and then regrouped, tiled them together to form animation, replicating and relating the copy, using photos to create a simulacrum world. She believed that, “now that many people are indulging in the internet formed with images nowadays, then I will let characters in the film live in graphic country made up by internet pictures straightforward. From my view, current cultural method is an existing, reunited, sampled, related.” It’s true that we can’t know our own secret now matter how developed the technology is. The meaning of art for us is that it is closer to that world evolved.

    How to use the simple language to explain the theoretical structure of world? “The Wriggling of Chord”, Zhou Song’s work, has let unordered “chord” lines move in a well- organized way in a fictitious three- dimensional space to extend a symphony of rational universe. He is the represent of super realism poets in Chinese young generation, by painting body/small animal/fruit to mould spirit/material/energy relation. “The Wriggling of Chord” is the newest work, and we can observe another part of his talent, that is the freely ability to rule grand narrative and structure.

    For impressionism, painting itself is for striving to catch that fleeting color presented naturally within special time. Sally is from Panama and has a gift in intuitional expression of color, while picture images, structure and so on are giving way to color filled with emotions. She studied in China and Latin America and learned to draw from a small age, and “Exotic Charm” shows all enjoyment of its master, strong Latin American tradition and birds and blooms world, handtailor embroidery by Indian women integrating with the painting. We no longer pay attention to emotional color and characteristic of literature but indulge in the beauty of painting and the yearning to sunshine sonata awakened.

    Xu Fan has exquisite and superb sketch techniques, with broad individual research area, and finds unification logic between art and science. His works are like contemporary allegory, painted sculpture, “Shaun The Sheep- Lady Sheep” dressed by Beijing opera costume (it was selected as Chinese- English cultural communication when as the gift to Prince William in 2015) which is cute and has hided solemn ponder. “Mr. Nurse imitating a crow drinking water” is the oil painting work attending this exhibition, wonderful image expressing ridiculous social spiritual scheme.

    More sample studies are also based on the existing viewing standards, namely beauty, truth, genius, civilization, form and taste. There are numerous works with rich meanings and diverse backgrounds. But they test the basic ecology of young art groups today, in response to the problem of the third possibility at the beginning of this chapter – should we lean for the reality, or for our ideal? Should we rely on the reality as an object of dissatisfaction or should we rely on the ideal as a longing object? - In fact, our study found that the current youth groups generally express their ideal in an artistic way or turn the reality to their ideal.





  • Why Eye Art - In name of Eye

    —— Zhu Qing

    This exhibition is named after "eyes", because the visual art is the world's common language. Painting, sculpture, drama, folk art, architectural design, film and television, music and other art forms are all first seen by our "eyes", resulting in positive and active appreciation, consumption and criticism activities. German rationalist philosopher Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten (1714 - 1762, "the father of aesthetics") for the first time gives an official category to the concept of aesthetics. He believes that aesthetics is the subject of feelings and emotional law. With the art as the object of study, it is extremely important to have the eyes of aesthetic experience. Therefore the Soviet revolutionary film director Dziga Vertov wrote in 1923: "I am free from the constraints of time and space. I coordinate all the points in the whole universe and I am the ruler. So I have created a new idea of ​​knowing the world, and I will explain the world that you cannot understand in a brand-new way."

    Objectively speaking, visual aesthetics does not involve communicative obstacles caused by gender, age, language, educational background, social role, religious beliefs and other differences. Aesthetic view of postures, facial expressions, and customs, taking portraits as an example, is portrayed by the artist's skill, presenting a psychological or social relationship. Of course, we never just look at one thing. Our eyes are always moving, and our thinking is always busy, always putting things around the chain of things around it and reviewing the relationship between things and ourselves. At the same time, others are watching us, and the sight of others is combined with us so that we are convinced that we are in this objective world.

    In the world we need to find a common language, and through the exhibition we have to conduct an interactive relationship’s attempt, from which we can find a common discourse. The exhibition is divided into regular exhibition, invitation exhibition and public welfare exhibition. The first unit of regular exhibition is designed to provide a cohesive approach for viewers who intend to appreciate contemporary art without systematic knowledge and experience; the second unit of invitation exhibition serves as a reference for the standard sample - like the remark made by great French novelist Balzac when he saw the painting of Francis Hals – “it enriched our understanding of the contemporary and raised our fear of the ever-increasing momentum that was enough to make us see more clearly the vitality of life.”

    The third unit of the public welfare exhibition focus on diversity, including those global common topics of art and the city, art and ecology, art and heritage as well as art and the next generation. We expect this world-wide exhibition can make sense for mission and responsibility, continually raise and focus on new voices and find new art texts, paradigms and grammars, in order to complement and enrich the content of the contemporary art history we are practicing.

    Conclusion:
    There are a variety of styles, skills, selections, themes, forms, purposes. Combing through thousands of works, we found the common and different features showing in the development of contemporary art in the young people. It can combine the current historical environment with the social stage to implement a new stage of development and exploration. At present, many exhibitions take place over the same period, and we hope that the exhibition will be used to retrieve the real meaning of the exhibition to the artist, the art research, the public aesthetics, and the cultural ecology. The theoretical approach we have taken is to return the confusion and the question to the most basic nature, and then we can conduct further studies. Our ideal is the combination of reality and ideal and the integration of ancient culture and modern culture, which requires a great effort.

    Finally, I wish this exhibition a complete success in Beijing / Israel / New York United Nations. We hope to see that the people who love life use painting to express themselves from now on, and that outstanding artists find their way to the world from here.





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