Qiqi He, Ziyi
Wang, Ali Algefary, Faris Alabdulqader
Speaking/Listening 222-2
Ms. Levine
2nd Speaking Circle Meeting Report
February 22, 2015
On Friday, February 20, we met together at the Eli and
Edythe Broad Art Museum as our second speaking circle meeting. This museum is the only modern building
among the antique buildings which can be easily found next to the Grand River
Street. There are three floors totally, most of the exhibitions that is
opened for this period are about Asian art from China and Lao, and
the expectation of East Lansing.
I think one of the most interesting exhibition area was
"Future Return: Complementary Art from China". Since
most of the exhibitions were from China, it was little bit difficult for Ali
and Faris to understand the meaning. Therefore, me and Ziyi acted like one day
tour guides to explain the exhibits and introduce our culture to them. We
talked about how the difference between ancient and modern time of the
lifestyle in China, and explained the meaning of the pictures which were showed
in Chinese words. For example, the pictures show below which is from a set of
painting called "Notes from Reading". In order to deconstruct
the violent nature of the blade and the illusory nature of the words,
the creator Zhou Qinshan uses antonyms
in Chinese which were "real" and"imagined" to compare
with the process of sharping a knife which the blade gradually disappears.
In my opinions, this means people should be retain some spaces on doing
everything. Do not push yourself too hard which will be lead to a bad result.
Finally, it took us about an hour to see all the exhibitions and
we all thought the museum should post more different kinds of art. Even though our major are not about
art, we were all enjoy watching this time. Also it was a good time for us to
introduce our own culture. Sometime, we may not understand with each other
very well, but we tried to use the body language to explain more clearly. I am
looking forward to our next meeting!
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