Press Release
Bronze A' Design Award in Fine Arts and Art Installation Design Goes to Interpreting Discomfort Oil Paint by YunFen Wang
The international grand jury of the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes YunFen Wang for fine arts and art installation design
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COMO, Italy, April 22, 2022 /DesignNewswire/ Interpreting Discomfort Oil Paint by YunFen Wang has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Fine Arts and Art Installation Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The award was conferred within the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition and was reached through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who scored anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
About the Bronze A' Design Award
The Bronze A' Design Award is given to outstanding designs that showcase a high degree of creativity and practicality. It recognizes the dedication and skill of designers who produce work that stands out for its thoughtful development and innovative use of materials and technology. These designs are acknowledged for their professional execution and potential to influence industry standards positively. Winning this award highlights the designer's ability to blend form and function effectively, offering solutions that enhance people's lives and wellbeing.
About Interpreting Discomfort Oil Paint
Interpreting Discomfort is a series of oil paintings about personal space and social pressure. The works show hands and eyes in staged scenes that recreate everyday moments of unease. Caring actions can bring people closer, yet too much attention can also cause discomfort. The paintings combine two techniques. Indirect painting builds a black and white base that is then glazed with color. Direct painting applies mixed color straight onto the surface. The series is made with oil paint on canvas and wood panel, and it is shown in galleries as a starting point for conversation.
About YunFen Wang
YunFen Wang was born and raised in Taiwan. She received her MFA from the Academy of Art University, San Francisco with an emphasis in painting and drawing in 2021. Prior to this, her BFA was obtained in Taiwan, Chinese Culture University. While living in San Francisco, she participated in multiple exhibition in the USA and Italy. Her installation art Memory on The Cloud was collected by National Kaohsiung University.
Award Record
This recognition makes YunFen Wang a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Fine Arts and Art Installation Design Award
The A' Fine-Art Design Award is an international fine-art design competition recognizing best fine-art works by leading fine-art artists and creators worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to artists, painters, sculptors and ceramicists from all countries. Typical entries include sculptures, paintings, installations, photographs, drawings and mixed media works. The awarded art designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/fine-art
About A' Design Award & Competition
Organized annually since 2008, A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The philanthropic mission of the A' Design Award is to advance society through good design, by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Nominations are peer reviewed and evaluated anonymously by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. Eligible laureates receive the A' Design Prize, which includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, uploading a work and receiving a preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. More information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://dezigners.org/136563
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/136563
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!136563
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/327867
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Interpreting Discomfort Oil Paint
- Function
- Oil Paint
- Category
- Fine Arts and Art Installation Design
- Discipline
- Communication Design
- Industry
- Arts
- Colors
- Black, Dark Slate Gray, Dark Olive Green and Dim Gray
- Images
- 5
The Recognition
- Laureate
- YunFen Wang
- Country
- United States of America
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2021 - 2022
- Design ID
- #136563
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Many times “caring” actions will bring people closer together, but it can also make people uncomfortable with too much attention. In this series of works, she discuss how much attention is too much? How is this feeling of discomfort formed? For the attention given by others, we all want to classify it as concern, but too much attention may become a kind of pressure. She use this series of works to discuss with the viewer the comfortable distance of interaction between people.
- Inspiration
- The images she make for this project are staged recreations of her own experience, and she believe that it is also the experience of many other people. This series deals with issues of discomfort and stress in everyday life. We all care about how others view us, this has become the same as our invisible living standards.
- Research
- The first thing is to study how to create an uncomfortable atmosphere. Eyes and hands are good parts for expressing emotions. The unnatural feeling of combining these two makes the picture more attractive and intriguing.
- Challenge
- Ideation and the atmosphere is the hardest part of this project. In the presentation of the picture, the shape of the hands must be placed harmoniously in the picture without losing the beauty.
- Realization and Technology
- She examined the difference between indirect painting and direct painting, and used both of them in the picture. The indirect painting methods belongs to the technique of classic realistic oil painting, which is completed in black and white and then glaze color on top. Direct painting is the method of contemporary painting, which directly superimposes the adjusted color on the canvas. Materials used: Oil paint, Wood Panel, Canvas
- Operation and Interaction
- It will be displayed in a gallery, and these paintings can be a tool for conversation.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project began in San Francisco in 2020. Participated in Contemporary Venice 2021, Italy and Small Works 2021, New York.
- Specifications
- 24 x 48 inch / 24 x 30 inch / 20 x20 inch / 12 x 12 inch
- Keywords
- hands, eyes, oil painting, art, surrealism
