Outcome
This is "Oxidation Painting 1978" by Andy Warhol. When I was in the Andy Warhol Museum, as soon as I entered that hall, this painting was there with a totally different style. In my mind, the painting was more like a Chinese style water-ink painting instead of an abstract work. Because the strong resonance between the painting and my culture background, I chose to closely experience this work.
There are two phase of experience and response.
Starting with the first phase: The whole canvas was in the color of bronze and dark gold. There are bright and dark part on the canvas, and this light-dark intercrossing areas create the flowing effects like a long sheet of silk is dancing with the wind and the painting is floating on the silk. The five patterns on the silk evoked two kinds of different memory in me. The second from the right looks very much like typical abstract mountains in Chinese water-ink painting and thus brought my back in the memory of the magnificent views from those famous mountains back in my country. The middle one reminds me of the symbol on the sword of War, the hero of video game Darksider, and the story sat in a chaos world.
The second phase is when I knew that this painting was "painted" by several people, including Andy Warhol himself, peeing on the canvas covered in metallic painting. Af first, this was a huge shock, for the difference of Chinese water-ink painting and pee painting was too huge to measure. But after the shock, I was amused because, no matter how it was produced, the painting gave the sense of art without context and this is something I never saw before. Then another sense came up: I was admiring Warhol's painting and Warhol himself because he was totally breaking the rule by painting a someway serious painting in a very unserious way.
I made a video remix to recreate my experience with the painting. I began with a video of an old Chinese anime which was using water-ink style to recreate mountains and villages. Then I use several sound effects and video cuts to make a huge turn and recreate the shock I went through. Just after the shock, I use sooth music to represent the time when I calmed down and start changing from shocking to admiring.
Just after I calmed down from the shock of pee-painting, I realized I was inspired by Andy Warhol. I always break rules and seek for brand new perspective, but Warhol's "Oxidation Painting 1978" somehow push me to think about what is rule-breaking. We may consider abstraction was breaking the rule at its time, but what Andy did wasn't just break the rule of styling but also the way of painting it- after all, who else dare to pee on a "serious" work of art? What I finally got was that at the time I break a rule and create something new, is it the case that I just breach out of the membrane of the egg and hit the shell without realizing it and still feeling complacent?
So far, I don't think I would do something different to express my experience with the painting because this is not only the first idea popped into my head when I saw the painting and its story, but also the best idea I had in mind.
And yes, I think I captured my experience very accurately, for all the different sounds and their effects in the video are just what I made when I was at the museum and they perfectly reflect my mood and thoughts back then.
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