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We visited an exhibition at NAFA sometime in August last year.
It was a display of various works by AEP students, and here are some photos of it, as well as comments on some works i liked.

I liked this piece of work alot. The painting was mounted on the ceiling of the small display area, because the painting was of people flying in the sky! The perspective captured by the artist was very interesting and different. The painting was very realistic, and made us viewers feel like there were people dropping on us!
There was also a very interesting variation of people, in gender, age and occupation. The expressions were also real and variated. The composition was good and every person in the painting was interesting to look at. Great work.

I like this work alot too
The above two pieces of painting were done by an ex-boy of SJI. The two paintings were inspired by his memories of his time in SJI and the images table and chair recall times he had with his friends and classmates who have added colour into his life.
These two paintings give a feel of eerie silence and melancholy. The artist portrayed very well his feelings of nostalgia towards his school. I think the colours (cold colours dark brown and blue) were very aptly used and added a quality of grandeur to the architecture, as well as a feeling of coldness. The shadings and lighting create the feeling of long space and distance, further portraying the feeling of emptiness. The lack of life in both paintings also added to the melancholy, the feeling of missing his school.
I am also rather amazed at the clean lines and precise construction of the architecture, which made it look very realistic.

This was another of the works i liked alot.
The idea behind this painting was gifts of love, how giving can bring alot of joy to others. Hence the artist painted various different gifts she received. I like this work because it is very personal to the artist and means something to her. Viewers can see her personality through this work. Another reason is also because of the realistic paintings, especially the painting of the poloroid, and the transparency of the class were done very well. The colours used are also very cohesive and projects a warm feeling of love, which is exactly the theme of the painting.

However, i feel that she could still have made something a focus of the work because i don’t know where to look when i see the painting. Maybe there could have been a central object, something which really means alot to her, to capture the attention of the viewer, then we see the rest of the objects.
There were many other great works in the exhibition, and it was good to see what other local students were doing There were some interesting stuff like self-made comical videos

(Btw, very sorry for the bad photography! photos taken by my pathetic handphone.)