Design Principle - Ilham Gallery

29/5/2019 (Week 9)

Vun Wan Min (034263)

Design Principle

Class Trip - Ilham Gallery

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Class Trip

Ilham Gallery

We are at the gallery to look at the exhibition of Chia Yu Chian: Private Lives and Rediscovering Forgotten Thai Masters of Photography. 

Chia Yu Chian is a Malaysian artist that was born in Penang and moved to Kuala Lumpur for a new adventure. The city and the people were his subjects. He captured all of the cities and peoples growth in his artworks.

The exhibition of Rediscovering Forgotten Thai Masters of Photography is about seven photographers that offers presumption on film photography and culture from the 1950s to 1970s.

Fig. 1: Ilham Gallery Building

The structure of Ilham Gallery is interesting and beautiful. It is tall and the window of the building make it seems to have lines, the interior of the building is also nice and have a majestic feeling.

Chia Yu Chian: Private Lives

Fig. 2.1: Village (Chia Yu Chian)

I like this painting because of the scenery of it. It is a country side village that is small and surrounded by greenery. The lines of the trees leaves followed the strokes he did and make it looks alive.

Fig. 2.2: The Reception, Genting Hotel (Chia Yu Chian)

The shirts of the painting has the design principle of pattern.
The guy in the middle to the left has a repetition of the word “福”, which means blessing on his shirt while the women in front of him have a floral pattern on their shirts and the guy at the left corner in the end has a square pattern shirt. Even the has a repetition of a square.
It also has colour contrast because of the blues and oranges from the shirts of the people and accessories. The texture and colour of the painting make it seems to have depths to it like a line of people queuing up.

Fig. 2.3: 1973 (Chia Yu Chian)

Fig. 2.4: Bridge Across the River (Chia Yu Chian)

These two paintings (Fig. 2.3 and Fig. 2.4) have the principle of perceptive, movement and scale. The people in front is bigger than the people from back while doing go it makes the paintings seem to have perceptive. The people walking in a line looks to have a hit of movement and direction of where they are going, while the second painting have hierarchy and movement because of buildings.

Fig. 3: Sketch (Chia Yu Chian)

On of his many sketches, I like this one because the lines and strokes he used. It's simple and his lines are following the movement of it.

Rediscovering Forgotten Thai Masters of Photography

Fig. 4.1: S.H. Lim

This photograph of the silhouettes of the two people showing a story of a photographer and his subjects. The structure building behind them have some nice lines and dots to it, it seems to be a temple because of the structure.

Fig. 4.2: Saengjun Limlohakul

This photo has perceptive and lines. The building seems to make a line because of perceptive. The building and road make a trail to have a movement. The colour of the buildings is lighter than the sky which makes it seems like he took it at dawn or in the evening.

Fig. 5: LRT Ride

After the visit to Ilham Gallery, I took the LRT back to Taylor's with Christine. On the way, I took a picture of the scenery in front of me. It had the design principle of hierarchy, perceptive, lines, dots and direction.
The center looked to be a one point perceptive and the direction of the train is flowing straight ahead. The building was arranged of different height and the window looked like it have dots and lines.
It was a good view of the city from the LRT, even though I didn't have a look at the name of the station.