Jackson Pollock, Number 1, 1950

Jackson Pollock, Number 1, 1950

Jackson Pollock, Number 1, 1950

The art work from Jackson Pollock using alkyd enamels (a synthetic type of paint) as the medium was a kind of action painting. After World War II and the invention of photograph, a realistic picture became unnecessary. Jackson Pollock believed that the action painting through alkyd enamels could reflect the emotion and expression of feelings of him at that moment of time. 

Cai Guo Qiang, Childhood Spaceship

Cai Guo Qiang, Childhood Spaceship

Cai Guo Qiang, Childhood Spaceship, 2012

The installation art work uses gunpower as a medium to create the pieces. While gunpower always uses for explosion, the artist, Cai Quo Qing, uses gunpower to reach or connect the universe and ancestor in the instantaneous time during explosion. The installaion be as a performance during explosion and became a visible art work while making of the installation. 

Aaron Koblin, “Bicycle Built for 2000” 2009

Aaron Koblin, “Bicycle Built for 2000” 2009

Aaron Koblin and and Daniel Massey, Bicycle Built for 2000, 2009

Bicycle Built For 2,000, the computer art work, use over 2000 human voices over the world and the voice generated from computer which was the first musical speech synthesis as a medium. By mixing the voice from generated from computer and the voice from human beings, the artist wanted to express the contradiction of the relationship between media and human. 

Yayoi Kusama’s ‘The obliteration room'

Yayoi Kusama’s ‘The obliteration room'

Yayoi Kusama, The obliteration room, 2011

The art work from KuYayoi sama was a piece of applicatiion art work. The artist used a plain room as a special medium prompted the audience to obliterate the room by  brightly coloured stickers in the shape of dots.

While most of the environment we usually connect in daily were already immersed by colors and shapes, the artist believed this would limit the development of human beings to identify themselves which influenced form the concept of situationism. The plain room create a space and situation for audience to exert the imagination. 
Moreover, rather than creating an art work for people to observe the angle from the artist, it  allows audience to participle in the art work.