On 26th February 2013, Tuesday, we had a different experience for Introduction to Design class. We went to National Visual Art Gallery which is located along Jalan Tun Razak. This is my first time visiting National Visual Art Gallery of Malaysia. I was really looking forward to visiting it.
At around 12p.m, four of my classmates and I went together by my car. It wasn't that far from HELP to the gallery. When we finally reached there, I was quite excited. After being given a brief introduction of National Visual Art Gallery by lecturer, we started our ''tour of Arts''. There are a lot of unique works of Arts like paintings, photographs, sculptures and handicrafts. Many of those art works are really fascinating and they have power of piercing consciousness and emotions.
There are few art works which have struck a chord in my mind. One of them which I like the most is the masterpiece of Asmadi Masri (Adeputra) named "Tak Pernah Kenyang". This is an art work with mixed media on board，born in 2004. This picture is about nine men wearing like gentlemen, having lavish feast, full of food and drinks on the table, and they are enjoying the meal. There are plenty of food scraps and used plate beside the table but these men are still happily having their food and drinks like they "never feel full". This picture gives me a strong consciousness of showing sarcasm against Politics. In my point of view, this picture is showing that officials never get enough in corruption. Furthermore, there is a man feeding durian to another man also shows a sense of bribing. The interesting part I found in this picture is the food. There are durians, satey, ketupat those are recognized as Malaysia's famous local food, and the drinks is "Tongkat Ali". This shows that the artist of this picture is trying to tell the audiences that what message he is trying to convey is about Malaysia.
I enjoyed this trip to National Visual Art Gallery of Malaysia. After taking this tour of arts, I strongly agree that arts should be exposed to Malaysians especially teenagers. Since arts is considered a medium of communication, it is important that whether all people are aware of this medium. In addition, Arts can also be a therapy in medication. Nowadays there are many psychologists using arts as treatment on patients.
I would like to recommend a few ways for exposing arts to Malaysians. First, we can have more campaigns with theme of arts. Arts competition in school is encouraged because it can directly expose arts to teenagers. Having arts exhibition in shopping malls is also a good idea since we may get more people to notice it. Other than that, since mass media and social network is getting more advanced and popular, we may take this situation as odds to highly promote arts using these media.
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