tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5426184750097014262024-03-12T18:43:51.868-07:00Contemporary Art 2011Contemporary Art 2011http://www.blogger.com/profile/07433335171656703350noreply@blogger.comBlogger47125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-542618475009701426.post-50305173742197107832011-05-10T01:22:00.000-07:002011-05-10T01:22:03.356-07:00CHAN Wai Ming Chriz, “Still from Dialogue with Myself (Encounter)” by Yasumasa Morimura<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqwkIgYOLGhz_8MQS7Xn_1A1dPglD4dzJvZ_pUNLMnClzpGiS0f_h3MOsgxJ-yaduXiZlfa8cdF9kHLe3ILS_tEl2CA9BUMwV5TsJliZXQewwO2nNIBldbrVbpjDalnuLA4s-7jbNBu08/s1600/Dialogue+with+Myself1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqwkIgYOLGhz_8MQS7Xn_1A1dPglD4dzJvZ_pUNLMnClzpGiS0f_h3MOsgxJ-yaduXiZlfa8cdF9kHLe3ILS_tEl2CA9BUMwV5TsJliZXQewwO2nNIBldbrVbpjDalnuLA4s-7jbNBu08/s1600/Dialogue+with+Myself1.jpg" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ9LPAPGtvpwfo8J8kboQqzZPQoZDlcxhIOalKREtn8r-Xtr_SEpOIVsIE25gpNfALGo59XSBU7UNX2imE1YvuCQOF5Mnm8YLVGL_T2KfBSx_-eMRVJzh8Z9CU2TV-Y6qLCDOd_63SJxo/s1600/Dialogue+with+Myself2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ9LPAPGtvpwfo8J8kboQqzZPQoZDlcxhIOalKREtn8r-Xtr_SEpOIVsIE25gpNfALGo59XSBU7UNX2imE1YvuCQOF5Mnm8YLVGL_T2KfBSx_-eMRVJzh8Z9CU2TV-Y6qLCDOd_63SJxo/s200/Dialogue+with+Myself2.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">"Still from Dialogue with Myself (Encounter)” by Yasumasa Morimura (<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px;">1995, DVD projection)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">Morimura </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">act as the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo and also the </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px;">accompanist. "They" </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px;">appears, then disappears, then appears, over and over.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"> Yasumasa <span class="apple-style-span">Morimura is a Japanese and he performs “cross-racial, cross-cultural, and cross historical identifications” in some of his art work. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"> In the past, artists emphasized on the significant of self that act independently. For them, identity means individual identity. They thought that the true self was a free individual. </span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"> But in recent artists’ view, identity is always in flux, artificially constructed and it is transformable in different situation and groups. Identity refers to social and cultural identity. We perform differently in classroom, at home, with family or with boss. Morimura is one of them. </span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"> Morimura use his images which he photograph himself to disconcert viewers. He tries to make the viewers feel uncertain whether they are looking at a male or female.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"> In the projection, we can see that Morimura act as female and also male at the same time. This blurs the boundary of gender. He tried to show us that identity is not fixed. It can be constructed and transformable. </span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">We can distinguish a person is male or female visually by clues such as hairstyle, pose and gesture. So Morimura uses these factors, with the help of makeup and costume to blur the gender boundary. He challenges the notion of gender. He draws attention to gender that it is only a role we play in the society. He shows us that identity is relational and in flux. We construct and perform artificial identity. </span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"> In my opinion, identity is really shaped by the social and culture influence. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"> If I was born in the past Chinese Dynasty, it was common to have a queue hair. But it is strange to have a queue hair nowadays as the culture is different from the past. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"> If I stay in a society, my happy face is marked as basic identity. If I meet new people in new place, I can have a sad face and become another identity. Or if I never meet any people, my face is useless for my identity. This is similar to our identity on the Internet. We can have different identities on different websites. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"> As a member of the group named “boy”, I know that it is commonly regarded as a strange if I wear skirt on the street. I should wear what most people think is suitable. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"> Morimura </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">interests me because he is an Asian man who pretends to be a female in his artworks which he photographs by himself, especially those famous people. He bring the people in the past and identify with them no matter he or she is. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px;">This practice is known as “temporal drag” by Elizabeth Freeman. It means </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px;">Morimura</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px;"> "pulls the figures in the past to now" to show what he want to.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px;"><br />
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<u>Write a detailed description of Mao Zedong No. 1 by Wang Guangyi<br />
with a particular focus on what the work expresses about the theme of history.</u><br />
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1.Introduction<br />
a.Wang Guangyi’s manifesto <br />
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2.History of the use of Mao's protrait(Personality Cult)<br />
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3.Formal analysis<br />
a.composition<br />
b.colour<br />
c.content<br />
d.subject matter<br />
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4.Changes of the use of Mao's protrait in contemporary art<br />
a.citicizing Chinese History(Cultural Revolution)<br />
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5.Conclusion<br />
a.The use of icon<br />
b.changes in meaningContemporary Art 2011http://www.blogger.com/profile/07433335171656703350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-542618475009701426.post-78729608110815660572011-01-31T21:41:00.000-08:002011-01-31T21:46:52.279-08:00Tracy,Chui Sze Wa talks on Carrie Mae Weems, Untitled from Kitchen table series, 1990 ( 29th March)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1UDVPdahIDbhd5DFwD58WgiFZVBJnzVnOD7G_BTklZ0CD0kcBNJUmweFM7o3jjuEL7QrpdWqT5I9ifdchSdOBo0KYWu45GQ-pBTn4Bjjeoxpn8EWesX281gdpopCDgO9ZcmRTfIo_iTM/s1600/Carrie%252520Mae%252520Weems%252520Untitled%252520from%252520Kitchen%252520table%252520series%2525201990.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" s5="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1UDVPdahIDbhd5DFwD58WgiFZVBJnzVnOD7G_BTklZ0CD0kcBNJUmweFM7o3jjuEL7QrpdWqT5I9ifdchSdOBo0KYWu45GQ-pBTn4Bjjeoxpn8EWesX281gdpopCDgO9ZcmRTfIo_iTM/s400/Carrie%252520Mae%252520Weems%252520Untitled%252520from%252520Kitchen%252520table%252520series%2525201990.jpg" width="396" /></a></div>Contemporary Art 2011http://www.blogger.com/profile/07433335171656703350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-542618475009701426.post-42958481778986219022011-01-25T08:57:00.000-08:002011-01-25T08:57:20.617-08:00Cat,Wong Man Ting talks on Hung Liu Judgement of Paris 1992<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; 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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Artist: Kiki Smith</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Work: Tale (1992)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong>What is it?</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;">This work is t<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-HK; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;">he most controversial work from Smith</span>In the work, a</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-HK; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;">female sculpture</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-HK; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;"> which is in a prostrate gesture is shown. It is naked and is c</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;">rouching</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-HK; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;">on all fours while defecating a long, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;">snakelike turd onto the floor. Moreover, There is </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-HK; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;">full of dirt on</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;"> her body, especially on </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;">her </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-HK; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;">bottom</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;">. And What makes the work u</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;">nusual</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-HK; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;">is </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-HK; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;">the </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;">excrement; this excrement was </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;">excreted from the back of the body and is trailing behind her. On the whole, the work p</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;">resent</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-HK; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;">s </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;">a dirty woman</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-HK; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;"> which </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;">disgust </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-HK; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;">audiences.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"><strong>What are the messages?</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>* Things that human cannot hide from themselves</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">The work actually shows our embarrassment on something, for example, the process of excrement. The feces represents some sort of internal personal garbage that you are dragging all the time. And it also states the shame and humiliation of not being able to hide things that are so apparent in one's own being.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>* Shame on hiding what we actually are</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Our first impression towards this work may be negative. We may feel disgusting, ashamed and want to skip it. However, when we think in depth, we should feel grief since we tried to hide things that are normal (Physical, bodily processes). And I think that is the real shame when we tried to omit what oneself truly is and to omit one's true existence.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>* Potential questioning the concept of "tradition"</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">When we look at this work, we may think about the "tradition" matter. What is the tradition way to show human body? ( especially woman body). Are they always perfect? graceful? Clean? Tidy? Smooth? Actually Smith's work are always regarded as something "different from tradition". In my opinion, Smith's work exactly point out the true side of "tradition". The work shows the imperfect side of human and that is the realistic part about all human since none of us is perfect.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>* Make people rethink, evoke self-examination on physical body</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Is one's body a burden of ones? It carries meaning or trap one's spirit? Smith's work reminds the audience that our body contains mortality. Everyone of us have to face birth, aging, illness and death; these are things that none of us can hide from.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"><strong>My association towards the work</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">When I look at the work, I think of two extreme things, the elderly who suffer from incontinence and baby who always need their parents to bath them. It shows that human is sometimes unavoidably weak and all of us should embrace that in our lives.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"><strong>Question</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Do you think that the messages the art work presents will still be the same if the figure is changed from a woman to a man? Why or Why not?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I think the general meaning would be the same, for example, things that we cannot hide and the shame that we tried to avoid it in our lives. However, I think the female figure actually enrich the work since it emphasizes the contrast between the tradition woman body and the realistic woman body. I reckon that the artist tries to remind the audience of human weakness. And sometimes we have to face our true selves instead of hiding it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"><strong>Reference</strong></span><br />
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text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.operagallery.com/artistes/wang/2009WGGY002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="342" s5="true" src="http://www.operagallery.com/artistes/wang/2009WGGY002.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Contemporary Art 2011http://www.blogger.com/profile/07433335171656703350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-542618475009701426.post-17796230812946941072011-01-24T20:24:00.001-08:002011-05-05T21:17:38.922-07:00Maggie's Blog- Louise Bourgeois: Passage Dangereux<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.kunstraum-innsbruck.at/foto/Exh09/pic09a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="307px" s5="true" src="http://www.kunstraum-innsbruck.at/foto/Exh09/pic09a.jpg" width="400px" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
<span style="color: #f3f3f3;"></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Artist: Louise Bourgeois</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Work: Passage Dangereux</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_F4zY8djlHDTp_1MosZMtEkjmVTz_8g_yT-lkwbysxQ1tS-Vup9qs9jW5lFJRiWdM3iyUDUwswPmMI5_e3lwtnUk8XV445OZ5heD1vBwss_ZZsCJsd98WQ9W-l7DkOYF56hosJsNNUaI/s1600/%25E6%259C%25AA%25E5%2591%25BD%25E5%2590%258D3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="250px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_F4zY8djlHDTp_1MosZMtEkjmVTz_8g_yT-lkwbysxQ1tS-Vup9qs9jW5lFJRiWdM3iyUDUwswPmMI5_e3lwtnUk8XV445OZ5heD1vBwss_ZZsCJsd98WQ9W-l7DkOYF56hosJsNNUaI/s320/%25E6%259C%25AA%25E5%2591%25BD%25E5%2590%258D3.jpg" style="filter: alpha(opacity=30); left: 456px; mozopacity: 0.3; opacity: 0.3; position: absolute; top: 2343px; visibility: hidden;" width="320px" /></a></div><div class="" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Year: 1997</span></div><div class="" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Material: Mixed Media</span></div><div class="" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Size: 264X356X876 cm</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
<span style="color: #f3f3f3;"></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong><u>Background of the Artist</u></strong></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></div><div style="direction: ltr; language: zh-TW; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.38in; margin-top: 7.2pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.38in; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="mso-special-format: bullet;">•</span><span style="language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Began her career in sculpture as she was “not satisfied with its(painting) level of reality”</span></span></span></div><div style="direction: ltr; language: zh-TW; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.38in; margin-top: 7.2pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.38in; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="mso-special-format: bullet;">•</span><span style="language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Her work has a degree of feminism</span></span></span></div><div style="direction: ltr; language: zh-TW; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.38in; margin-top: 7.2pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.38in; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="mso-special-format: bullet;">•</span><span style="language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Common features of work: around her lifelong experience, especially idea of “home”</span></span></span></div><div style="direction: ltr; language: zh-TW; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.38in; margin-top: 7.2pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.38in; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="mso-special-format: bullet;">•</span><span style="language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Later work: derived from childhood experience of her father hysterically</span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong><u>About The Work </u></strong></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
<span style="color: #f3f3f3;"></span></span></div><div style="direction: ltr; language: zh-TW; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.38in; margin-top: 7.2pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.38in; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="mso-special-format: bullet;">•</span><span style="language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Long corridor with chain- link fencing</span></span></span></div><div style="direction: ltr; language: zh-TW; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.38in; margin-top: 7.2pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.38in; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;"><span style="language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="mso-special-format: bullet;">•</span><span style="language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Cage- like house:fear and loss of freedom</span></span></span></div><div style="direction: ltr; language: zh-TW; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.38in; margin-top: 7.2pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.38in; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="mso-special-format: bullet;">•</span><span style="language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">With arched doors at the end of a central passage: : seems like the structure of a catherdral</span></span></span></div><div style="direction: ltr; language: zh-TW; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.38in; margin-top: 7.2pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.38in; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; mso-special-format: bullet;">•</span><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Inside place some domestic furniture and bric-a-brac, but in a strange way<br />
For example: a glass bowl contains bones, rabbit ears- like marbles place aside of white cuffs</span></div><div style="direction: ltr; language: zh-TW; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.38in; margin-top: 7.2pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.38in; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="mso-special-format: bullet;">•</span><span style="language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Many textures and surfaces were used, like wood, metal, glass, leather, etc: different impression of home and feeling</span></span></span><br />
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</div><div style="direction: ltr; language: zh-TW; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.38in; margin-top: 7.2pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.38in; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBzleZWtz6hFFDKUWiEmVtbAVTAJsLndlY9LFM5HbpMW-kBwpXAAAgH5kcqD6OuA68sflnVEHK0GjKE5U-efS1R0KW-tgy9HO9tgfKoVOmbOQrvfz9mBTUaYJfnxS3OQ7mbyPM1UbD3NA/s1600/%25E6%259C%25AA%25E5%2591%25BD%25E5%2590%258D2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="320px" j8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBzleZWtz6hFFDKUWiEmVtbAVTAJsLndlY9LFM5HbpMW-kBwpXAAAgH5kcqD6OuA68sflnVEHK0GjKE5U-efS1R0KW-tgy9HO9tgfKoVOmbOQrvfz9mBTUaYJfnxS3OQ7mbyPM1UbD3NA/s320/%25E6%259C%25AA%25E5%2591%25BD%25E5%2590%258D2.jpg" width="251px" /></span></a></div></div><div style="direction: ltr; language: zh-TW; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.38in; margin-top: 7.2pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.38in; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;"><span style="language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"> <span style="mso-special-format: bullet;">•</span><span style="language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Uncanny with designed in a strange way</span></span></span></span></div><div style="direction: ltr; language: zh-TW; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.38in; margin-top: 7.2pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.38in; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;"><span style="language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"><span style="language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="mso-special-format: bullet;">•</span><span style="language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">View different position and angles have different experiences within the architectural structure and its objects</span></span></span></span></div><div style="direction: ltr; language: zh-TW; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.38in; margin-top: 7.2pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.38in; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;"><span style="language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"><span style="language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="mso-special-format: bullet;">•</span><span style="language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Strange contrasts of lines and volume within a wire mesh “skin”</span></span></span></span></div><div style="direction: ltr; language: zh-TW; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.38in; margin-top: 7.2pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.38in; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;"><span style="language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"><span style="language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"> <span style="mso-special-format: bullet;">•</span></span></span><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">White cuffs with the word “Bourgeois”<br />
-represent her memory of father dressed in starched, laundered shirts</span></span></span></div><div style="direction: ltr; language: zh-TW; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.38in; margin-top: 7.2pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.38in; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;"><span style="language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"><span style="language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"><span style="language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="mso-special-format: bullet;">•</span><span style="language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Empty bottle with bracelets</span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="direction: ltr; language: zh-TW; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.38in; margin-top: 7.2pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.38in; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;"><span style="language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"><span style="language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"><span style="language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"></span></span></span><span style="language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"><span style="language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; mso-special-format: bullet;">•</span><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Child- size ch and secret compartments<br />
memory of her childhood</span></span></span></div><div style="direction: ltr; language: zh-TW; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.38in; margin-top: 7.2pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.38in; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.kunstraum-innsbruck.at/foto/Exh09/pic09b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="320px" j8="true" src="http://www.kunstraum-innsbruck.at/foto/Exh09/pic09b.jpg" width="253px" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><span style="language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"><span style="language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">While House give people a sense of "comfortable, secure place" to live in, Bourgois present in a cage- like place, look like a prison or animal cage</span></span></span></div><div style="direction: ltr; language: zh-TW; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.38in; margin-top: 7.2pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.38in; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;"><span style="language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"><span style="language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"><span style="language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"> <span style="mso-special-format: bullet;">•</span></span></span><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Bodily amputation throughout Bourgeois' s work<br />
- amputated feet merged with metal rods<br />
- -> evoke multi meanings and symbolic associations</span></span></span></span></div><div style="direction: ltr; language: zh-TW; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.38in; margin-top: 7.2pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.38in; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;"><br />
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language: zh-TW; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.38in; margin-top: 7.2pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.38in; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;"><span style="language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"><span style="language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"><span style="language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"><strong><u>Work about Gender</u></strong></span></span></span></span></div><div style="direction: ltr; language: zh-TW; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.38in; margin-top: 7.2pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.38in; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;"><span style="language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"><span style="language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"><span style="language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"><span style="language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="mso-special-format: bullet;">•</span><span style="language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Bourgeois followed the female movement that used wastes, pollution in representing “horror” which suggested by Julia </span><span style="language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Kristeva</span><span style="language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"> in 1982</span><span style="language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="direction: ltr; language: zh-TW; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.38in; margin-top: 7.2pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.38in; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;"><span style="language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"><span style="language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"><span style="language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"><span style="language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"><span style="language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="mso-special-format: bullet;">•</span><span style="language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Contrast between male minimalist </span><span style="language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">artists</span><span style="language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">: </span><span style="language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Messy </span><span style="language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">disordered and full of rubbish VS clean lines and geometric forms</span><span style="language: zh-TW; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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</div></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; direction: ltr; language: zh-TW; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.38in; margin-top: 7.2pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.38in; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"><span style="language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"><span style="language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"><span style="language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; language: zh-TW; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"><strong><u>Overall of the work</u></strong></span></span></span></span></span></div></div><div style="direction: ltr; language: zh-TW; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.38in; margin-top: 7.2pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.38in; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;"><span style="language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"><span style="language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"><span style="language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"><span style="language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"><span style="language: zh-TW; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"> <span style="mso-special-format: bullet;">•</span><span style="language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Psychological disturbance and alienation</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="direction: ltr; language: zh-TW; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.38in; margin-top: 7.2pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.38in; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"><span style="language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"><span style="language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"><span style="language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"><span style="language: zh-TW; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"><span style="language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="mso-special-format: bullet;">•</span><span style="language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Uncanny</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div></div><div style="direction: ltr; language: zh-TW; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.38in; margin-top: 6.48pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.38in; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="mso-special-format: bullet;">•</span><span style="language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Feminism</span></span></span></div><div style="direction: ltr; language: zh-TW; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.38in; margin-top: 6.48pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.38in; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="mso-special-format: bullet;">•</span><span style="language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Reflection of personal life</span></span></span><br />
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</div><div style="direction: ltr; language: zh-TW; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.38in; margin-top: 6.48pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.38in; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"><strong><u>My opinions on the work:</u></strong></span></div><div style="direction: ltr; language: zh-TW; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.38in; margin-top: 6.48pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.38in; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="mso-special-format: bullet;">•</span><span style="language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Cage-like home: visible uncomfortable, and invisible painful (shadow) that memories can never be forgotten</span></span></span></div><div style="direction: ltr; language: zh-TW; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.38in; margin-top: 6.48pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.38in; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="mso-special-format: bullet;">•</span><span style="language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Playful with light treatment, create </span><span style="language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">confusion </span><span style="language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">of both the physical and the optical boundaries of the work, encourage to respond </span><span style="language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">kinaestheically</span><span style="language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"> </span></span></span></div><div style="direction: ltr; language: zh-TW; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.38in; margin-top: 6.48pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.38in; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="mso-special-format: bullet;">•</span><span style="language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">No escape for Bourgeois in her early life</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;"></span></span></div><div style="direction: ltr; language: zh-TW; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.38in; margin-top: 7.68pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.38in; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;"><span style="language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"> <span style="mso-special-format: bullet;">•</span><span style="language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Both Homebound (Mona </span><span style="language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Hatoum</span><span style="language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">) and Passage </span><span style="language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Dangereux</span><span style="language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"> (Louise Bourgeois) present the theme of Home, which piece do you think is more uncanny?</span></span></span></span></div><div style="direction: ltr; language: zh-TW; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.38in; margin-top: 7.68pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.38in; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;"><span style="language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"><span style="language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="mso-special-format: bullet;">•</span><span style="language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Is personal experience is an important element for the theme of Home?</span><span style="language: zh-TW; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"> </span></span></span></span></div>Contemporary Art 2011http://www.blogger.com/profile/07433335171656703350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-542618475009701426.post-12580368298844583172011-01-24T20:24:00.000-08:002011-01-24T20:24:00.586-08:00Chan Pik Leong, talks on Alfred Jaar geography=war 1990<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMtMXyytufMPOaHudK8Gvk3OMy9nfVdsTytCkkGxfLQd3K1dwjnSHPflFIJ-H4M8Rkl60VIHZJMYgyDqHch-Iwpo5ajxk26GfgLYH0NYcoMlk9iRQXqfwN5Zc44OkfUUZsTUOYARDAxlE/s1600/Alfred%252520Jaar%252520geography-war%2525201990.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" s5="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMtMXyytufMPOaHudK8Gvk3OMy9nfVdsTytCkkGxfLQd3K1dwjnSHPflFIJ-H4M8Rkl60VIHZJMYgyDqHch-Iwpo5ajxk26GfgLYH0NYcoMlk9iRQXqfwN5Zc44OkfUUZsTUOYARDAxlE/s320/Alfred%252520Jaar%252520geography-war%2525201990.jpg" width="249" /></a></div>Contemporary Art 2011http://www.blogger.com/profile/07433335171656703350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-542618475009701426.post-1205774237425316672011-01-24T20:17:00.003-08:002011-01-24T20:25:46.269-08:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div>Contemporary Art 2011http://www.blogger.com/profile/07433335171656703350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-542618475009701426.post-65728986891864921512011-01-24T20:17:00.001-08:002011-04-22T01:59:34.543-07:00Tammy talks on Wang Guanyi,Mao Zedong no 1 1988(19 April)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQVefvForGBdLDrvpBFVT_0Nlj7naZmQ_FWxv0JG3tER7mP7CUo2Jul2NOHsCjSMta8juOZTMZH_GfcvqhhR-ObL3m6AeWpwyBDgkKCETclh-rz7ZuTfQ69fFrjwd2twnfDWhPVSHs_3pd/s400/Wang%2520Guanyi%252C%2520mao%2520Zedong%2520no%25201%25201988%252C%2520oil%2520on%2520canvas.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #ffe599;"><img border="0" height="320px" s5="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQVefvForGBdLDrvpBFVT_0Nlj7naZmQ_FWxv0JG3tER7mP7CUo2Jul2NOHsCjSMta8juOZTMZH_GfcvqhhR-ObL3m6AeWpwyBDgkKCETclh-rz7ZuTfQ69fFrjwd2twnfDWhPVSHs_3pd/s320/Wang%2520Guanyi%252C%2520mao%2520Zedong%2520no%25201%25201988%252C%2520oil%2520on%2520canvas.jpg" width="258px" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffe599;"></span></div><div class="O" v:shape="_x0000_s2050"><div style="mso-char-wrap: 1; mso-kinsoku-overflow: 1; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Artist: </strong></span><span style="color: #ffe599;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Wang Guangyi<br />
Work: </strong></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Mao Zedong No. 1, 1988</strong></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #ffe599;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: ' Arial'; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Medium:Oil on canvas </strong></span></span></span></div><div style="mso-char-wrap: 1; mso-kinsoku-overflow: 1; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: ' Arial'; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Size: 59 x 141 in. (150 x 358.1 cm). </strong></span></span></div><div style="mso-char-wrap: 1; mso-kinsoku-overflow: 1; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>private collection </strong></span></span></div><div style="mso-line-spacing: '100 50 0';"><span style="color: #ffe599; display: none; mso-special-format: lastCR;"></span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffe599;"></span></div><div class="O" v:shape="_x0000_s2050"><div style="mso-char-wrap: 1; mso-kinsoku-overflow: 1; mso-margin-left-alt: 528; text-align: center;"><br />
<span style="color: #ffe599;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><i><u>About Wang and the work</u></i></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-color-index: 3; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="display: none; font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-color-index: 3; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></span></div><div style="mso-line-spacing: '100 50 0'; mso-margin-left-alt: 528;"><span style="color: #ffe599; display: none; mso-special-format: lastCR;"> </span><br />
<div class="O" v:shape="_x0000_s2050"><div style="mso-char-wrap: 1; mso-kinsoku-overflow: 1; mso-line-spacing: '100 20 0';"><span style="color: #ffe599; left: -1.16%; mso-special-format: bullet; position: absolute;">•</span><span style="color: #ffe599;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Wang Guangyi (1957 Heilongjiang) </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #ffe599;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">one of the pioneers </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">of Chinese contemporary art movement and the leader of the </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">“Political Pop” movement. </span></span></div><div style="mso-char-wrap: 1; mso-kinsoku-overflow: 1; mso-line-spacing: '100 20 0';"><span style="visibility: hidden;"><span style="color: #ffe599; left: -1.34%; mso-special-format: bullet; position: absolute;">•</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #ffe599; display: none; font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></div><div style="mso-char-wrap: 1; mso-kinsoku-overflow: 1; mso-line-spacing: '100 20 0';"><span style="color: #ffe599; left: -1.12%; mso-special-format: bullet; position: absolute;">•</span><span style="color: #ffe599;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Wang has created his own brand of paintings and sculptures </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">based on heroic images borrowed from the Cultural </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Revolution. </span></span></div><div style="mso-char-wrap: 1; mso-kinsoku-overflow: 1; mso-line-spacing: '100 20 0';"><span style="visibility: hidden;"><span style="color: #ffe599; left: -1.34%; mso-special-format: bullet; position: absolute;">•</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #ffe599; display: none; font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></div><div style="mso-char-wrap: 1; mso-kinsoku-overflow: 1; mso-line-spacing: '100 20 0';"><span style="color: #ffe599; left: -1.34%; mso-special-format: bullet; position: absolute;">•</span><span style="color: #ffe599;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #ffe599;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">In the 1980s, he created a sensation in Beijing by </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">challenging standard portraits of Mao. He painted the </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Chairman behind a set of grids or boxed lines, hinting at a </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">needed re-examination of the Chinese leader. </span></span></div><div style="mso-line-spacing: '100 50 0';"><span style="color: #ffe599; display: none; mso-special-format: lastCR;"> </span><br />
<div class="O" style="mso-margin-left-alt: 528;" v:shape="_x0000_s2050"><span style="color: #ffe599;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><i><u>PERSONALITY CULT</u></i></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-color-index: 3; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><span style="display: none; mso-special-format: lastCR;"> </span></span><br />
<div class="O" v:shape="_x0000_s2050"><div style="mso-char-wrap: 1; mso-kinsoku-overflow: 1; mso-line-spacing: '90 20 0'; mso-margin-left-alt: 216;"><span style="color: #ffe599; left: -3.83%; mso-special-format: bullet; position: absolute;">•</span><span style="color: #ffe599;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><b></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #ffe599;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><b>For more than two decades Mao Zedong’s portrait was </b></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><b>ubiquitous throughout China. The official emblem of the Great </b></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><b>Leader’s cult of personality, Mao’s image presided over schools, </b></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><b>factories, committee halls, and, of course, Tiananmen Square. </b></span></span></div><div style="mso-char-wrap: 1; mso-kinsoku-overflow: 1; mso-line-spacing: '90 20 0'; mso-margin-left-alt: 216;"><span style="visibility: hidden;"><span style="color: #ffe599; left: -3.89%; mso-special-format: bullet; position: absolute;">•</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #ffe599; display: none; font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><b> </b></span></div><div style="mso-char-wrap: 1; mso-kinsoku-overflow: 1; mso-line-spacing: '90 20 0'; mso-margin-left-alt: 216;"><span style="color: #ffe599; left: -3.35%; mso-special-format: bullet; position: absolute;">•</span><span style="color: #ffe599;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><b>The first Mao portrait appeared in Tiananmen Square in 1949, </b></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><b>replacing Chiang Kai-shek’s after the Communists seized power </b></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><b>and founded the People’s Republic of China. In the intervening </b></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><b>years, several versions of Mao’s visage presided over Tiananmen, </b></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><b>each executed by the then-reigning official portrait maker with </b></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><b>the help of anonymous artists. Even today, Mao’s portrait </b></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><b>remains above Tiananmen as the figurehead that unites the </b></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><b>Communist Party and the People’s Republic of China. Despite </b></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><b>his mixed legacy, his image serves as a powerful touchstone for </b></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><b>millions of Chinese citizens.</b></span><span style="display: none; mso-special-format: lastCR;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #ffe599;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">In a 1999 </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><i>Art Journal</i></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> article, Francesca Dal Lago cited </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">political pop artist Wang Guangyi's 1988 </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><i>Mao Zedong — </i></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><i>Red Grid No. 1</i></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> as one of the first examples of the "Mao-</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">related phenomenon in painting." </span></span></div><div style="mso-char-wrap: 1; mso-kinsoku-overflow: 1; mso-line-spacing: '90 20 0'; mso-margin-left-alt: 216;"><span style="visibility: hidden;"><span style="color: #ffe599; left: -4.15%; mso-special-format: bullet; position: absolute;">•</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #ffe599; display: none; font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></div><div style="mso-char-wrap: 1; mso-kinsoku-overflow: 1; mso-line-spacing: '90 20 0'; mso-margin-left-alt: 216;"><span style="color: #ffe599; left: -3.8%; mso-special-format: bullet; position: absolute;">•</span><span style="color: #ffe599;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">This painting mocks the ubiquitous portrait of </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Chairman Mao, </span></span></div><div style="mso-char-wrap: 1; mso-kinsoku-overflow: 1; mso-line-spacing: '90 20 0'; mso-margin-left-alt: 216;"><span style="visibility: hidden;"><span style="color: #ffe599; left: -4.15%; mso-special-format: bullet; position: absolute;">•</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #ffe599; display: none; font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></div><div style="mso-char-wrap: 1; mso-kinsoku-overflow: 1; mso-line-spacing: '90 20 0'; mso-margin-left-alt: 216;"><span style="color: #ffe599; left: -3.67%; mso-special-format: bullet; position: absolute;">•</span><span style="color: #ffe599;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #ffe599;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">caused a sensation at Beijing's first exhibition of avant-</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">garde art in 1989. </span></span></div><div style="mso-char-wrap: 1; mso-kinsoku-overflow: 1; mso-line-spacing: '90 20 0'; mso-margin-left-alt: 216;"><span style="visibility: hidden;"><span style="color: #ffe599; left: -4.15%; mso-special-format: bullet; position: absolute;">•</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #ffe599; display: none; font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></div><div style="mso-char-wrap: 1; mso-kinsoku-overflow: 1; mso-line-spacing: '90 20 0'; mso-margin-left-alt: 216;"><span style="color: #ffe599; left: -3.51%; mso-special-format: bullet; position: absolute;">•</span><span style="color: #ffe599;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #ffe599;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Political pop artists such as Wang are ambivalent towards </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">what has become the foremost icon of an entire Chinese </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">generation. </span></span></div><div style="mso-line-spacing: '100 50 0'; mso-margin-left-alt: 216;"><span style="color: #ffe599;"></span></div><div style="mso-line-spacing: '100 50 0'; mso-margin-left-alt: 216;"><br />
<span style="color: #ffe599; display: none; mso-special-format: lastCR;">Formal Analysis </span></div><div class="O" style="mso-line-spacing: '100 50 0'; mso-margin-left-alt: 216;" v:shape="_x0000_s2050"><span style="color: #ffe599;"></span><br />
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<span style="color: #ffe599;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">the grid:,imposes a precise, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">mathematical structure on the image, stands for rationalism. </span></span></div><div style="mso-char-wrap: 1; mso-kinsoku-overflow: 1; mso-line-spacing: '90 20 0'; mso-margin-left-alt: 216;"><span style="visibility: hidden;"><span style="color: #ffe599; left: -4.1%; mso-special-format: bullet; position: absolute;">•</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #ffe599; display: none; font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></div><div style="mso-char-wrap: 1; mso-kinsoku-overflow: 1; mso-line-spacing: '90 20 0'; mso-margin-left-alt: 216;"><span style="color: #ffe599; left: -3.71%; mso-special-format: bullet; position: absolute;">•</span><span style="color: #ffe599;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">formed the literal framework for a rational </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">analysis of the picture plane; </span></span></div><div style="mso-char-wrap: 1; mso-kinsoku-overflow: 1; mso-line-spacing: '90 20 0'; mso-margin-left-alt: 216;"><span style="color: #ffe599; left: -3.43%; mso-special-format: bullet; position: absolute;">•</span></div><div style="mso-char-wrap: 1; mso-kinsoku-overflow: 1; mso-line-spacing: '90 20 0'; mso-margin-left-alt: 216;"><span style="color: #ffe599;"></span></div><div style="mso-char-wrap: 1; mso-kinsoku-overflow: 1; mso-line-spacing: '90 20 0'; mso-margin-left-alt: 216;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #ffe599; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><br />
<div class="O" v:shape="_x0000_s2050"><div style="mso-char-wrap: 1; mso-kinsoku-overflow: 1; mso-line-spacing: '90 20 0'; mso-margin-left-alt: 216;"><span style="color: #ffe599; left: -3.6%; mso-special-format: bullet; position: absolute;">•</span><span style="color: #ffe599;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">a gray version of a famous image of Mao, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">which the artist set within a grid of imprisoning lines. </span></span></div><div style="mso-char-wrap: 1; mso-kinsoku-overflow: 1; mso-line-spacing: '90 20 0'; mso-margin-left-alt: 216;"><span style="color: #ffe599; left: -3.69%; mso-special-format: bullet; position: absolute;">•</span><span style="color: #ffe599;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The color not only shocked eyes accustomed to years of reddish </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">hosannas to the father of the revolution -- that gray can shock at all </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">is wittily revealing -- but seemed to bleed the meaning from the </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">ideology itself. </span></span></div><div style="mso-line-spacing: '100 50 0'; mso-margin-left-alt: 216;"><span style="color: #ffe599;"></span></div><div style="mso-line-spacing: '100 50 0'; mso-margin-left-alt: 216;"><span style="color: #ffe599; display: none; mso-special-format: lastCR;"> </span><br />
<div class="O" style="mso-margin-left-alt: 216;" v:shape="_x0000_s2050"><span style="color: #ffe599;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The letters A and O, represent nothing more than coordinates in a random system, much like the ticker-tape flurry of numbers stamped across his </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Great Criticism paintings.</span><span style="display: none; mso-special-format: lastCR;"></span></span></div></div><div style="mso-line-spacing: '100 50 0'; mso-margin-left-alt: 216;"><span style="display: none; mso-special-format: lastCR;"><span style="color: #ffe599; display: none; mso-special-format: lastCR;"> </span></span><br />
<div class="O" v:shape="_x0000_s2050"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #ffe599;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 183%; mso-color-index: 3; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Question:</span><span style="display: none; mso-special-format: lastCR;"> </span></span></span></div><div class="O" v:shape="_x0000_s2050"><span style="color: #ffe599; display: none; mso-special-format: lastCR;"> </span><br />
<div class="O" v:shape="_x0000_s2050"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #ffe599;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 133%; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Wang</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 133%; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">’</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 133%; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">s manifesto was qingli renwen reqing</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 133%; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">—“</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 133%; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">rationality in art was supreme, emotion to be expunged.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 133%; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">”</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 新細明體; font-size: 133%; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><br />
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<div class="O" v:shape="_x0000_s2050"><div style="mso-char-wrap: 1; mso-kinsoku-overflow: 1; mso-line-spacing: '100 20 0';"><span style="font-size: 133%; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #ffe599;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> </span></span></span></div><div style="mso-char-wrap: 1; mso-kinsoku-overflow: 1; mso-line-spacing: '100 20 0';"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 133%; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="color: #ffe599; font-size: small;">Which one is better in fulfilling the purpose?Why? </span></span></div><div style="mso-char-wrap: 1; mso-kinsoku-overflow: 1; mso-line-spacing: '100 20 0';"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 133%; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="color: #ffe599; font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"></span><br />
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mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">from<http://nymag.com/nymag/critics/art/3165/></span><span lang="EN-US" style="display: none; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span></div><div style="mso-line-spacing: '100 50 0';"><span style="display: none; mso-special-format: lastCR;"><span style="color: #ffe599; font-size: small;"></span></span></div></div></div></div><div class="O" v:shape="_x0000_s2050"><span style="color: #ffe599;"></span></div></div></div></div><div style="mso-line-spacing: '100 50 0'; mso-margin-left-alt: 216;"><span style="color: #ffe599; display: none; mso-special-format: lastCR;"></span></div><span style="color: #ffe599;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">It also unthinkably implied Mao’s imprisonment or, at the very least, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">an insurmountable barrier between his revered image and the gaze of </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">the worshipful masses. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Contemporary Art 2011http://www.blogger.com/profile/07433335171656703350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-542618475009701426.post-50382210097185051232011-01-19T23:33:00.003-08:002011-01-19T23:33:21.983-08:00... talks on Gu Wenda United Nations seriesContemporary Art 2011http://www.blogger.com/profile/07433335171656703350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-542618475009701426.post-4323014389437294142011-01-19T23:33:00.001-08:002011-01-19T23:33:07.287-08:00... talks on Xu Bing A Book from the SkyContemporary Art 2011http://www.blogger.com/profile/07433335171656703350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-542618475009701426.post-91105937975537851102011-01-19T23:32:00.003-08:002011-01-19T23:32:37.761-08:00... talks on David Wojnarowicz Untitled (One day this kid…), 1990-91Contemporary Art 2011http://www.blogger.com/profile/07433335171656703350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-542618475009701426.post-48633279486261974512011-01-19T23:32:00.001-08:002011-04-11T05:41:23.021-07:00Music talks on "Gillian Wearing signs that say what you want them to say" (19 Apr.)<img src="https://elearning.ln.edu.hk/webct/urw/lc661683343001.tp661683888001//RelativeResourceManager?contentID=661684448001" />Contemporary Art 2011http://www.blogger.com/profile/07433335171656703350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-542618475009701426.post-77081908906779303832011-01-19T23:31:00.007-08:002011-02-20T18:53:22.409-08:00Penny,Wong Ka Wai talks on Shirin Neshat, Rebellious Silence, 1994<div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;">•Artist: Maureen Connor<br />
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•Title : Thinner than you<br />
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•Year : 1990<br />
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•Medium : Steel<br />
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•Dimension: 152.4 x 40.6 x 20.3 cm</span><br />
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</span><strong><span style="color: #d9d2e9;">Content:<br />
</span></strong><span style="color: #d9d2e9;"><u>1.Criticizing the narrow standards of beauty and sexual attractiveness</u></span><br />
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•Stereotype: thinness = a symbol of success (e.g. in relationship)<br />
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•Tightly stretched dress: Show the pressure that women faced<br />
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•Extreme thinness: raised the extreme consequences: anorexia and bulimia </span><span style="color: #d9d2e9;"><u></u></span><br />
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2. The status of female in society<br />
</u></span><span style="color: #d9d2e9;">•Empty dress: the concept of “empty vessel”(body drained of the illusion of soul)<br />
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•Women body symbolize a kind of sexual object<br />
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•‘Gaze’ is included in the artwork <br />
</span><span style="color: #d9d2e9;"><strong>Question:</strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: #d9d2e9;"><u>Do you think an actual woman body (with legs and arms.etc) and face should replace on the artwork?<br />
And why?</u></span><br />
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I would not replace an actual face or body. I would remain the original. <br />
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I think the negative spaces in sculptures resemble empty stage of human, like waiting for soul presence.<br />
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Which match with what Maureen wants to express, the missing soul of women.<br />
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Also, it could provide more space for spectators to think and put themselves in the situation more easily<br />
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without actual face.</span></div>Contemporary Art 2011http://www.blogger.com/profile/07433335171656703350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-542618475009701426.post-45276207142111987422011-01-19T23:30:00.005-08:002011-01-19T23:30:44.841-08:00... talks on Catherine Opie, Bo, from the series Being and Having, 1991Contemporary Art 2011http://www.blogger.com/profile/07433335171656703350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-542618475009701426.post-42187104219474243642011-01-19T23:30:00.003-08:002011-01-19T23:30:29.462-08:00... talks on Yasumasa Morimura, Still from Dialogue with Myself, 1995Contemporary Art 2011http://www.blogger.com/profile/07433335171656703350noreply@blogger.com0