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Chinese culture during the 19th century
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Chinese culture during the 19th century
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While in 19th century, when the western artists were actively engaged in art works of their own heritages, there had been very few Asian artists stand out to present Asian arts. However, at the time that we started to see masses of Chinese painting showing in museums, people began to be aware of the name ‘Hung Liu’ because her art work was unique and impressive due to her Chinese culture background. Hung Liu’s art works mostly aim at Chinese woman and prostitutes. She is fond of painting Chinese women’s body because she considers the women’s body as a powerful symbol and she tries to give people an image of what Chinese women look like and how strong and beautiful they are through her painting. Thus, Hung Liu’s art works become famous for the body images of Chinese women, and are widely known by people from all over the world.
Like the Mexican artist using blood quite a lot as a powerful symbol in her art works, Hung Liu think that the body image of Chinese woman stand for the strong power. Hung Liu is a Chinese American artist who was born in China in 1948. She attended Beijing Teachers College in 1975 and studied mural paintings at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. However, she ended up transferring to Sichuan Art University and graduated in 1982 with Painting major. In 1984, she immigrated to the U.S with her family. Later on, she got into UC, San Diego University and again majored Art. At that point of time, she was already good at historical photograph and oil painting. Her oil painting can be seen as critiques of Chinese socialist realistic style because of her using of strong Chinese traditional images. Today, her art works are massively shown in many exhibitions and museums worldwide. The most recent exhibitio...
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...passes over in the girl’s life. The fish was colored by light green, like a little shinning spot in the blue sea. The girl’s massy hair shows her upset and frustrate. On the contrary, her face
(Figure 2, “The Lost Fish” 76×68 in)
shows peace and quiet as if nothing happens. Hung Liu creates a visional world in this painting. The whole painting points out that the girl is confident, clean, healthy and powerful though she has some concerns in her mind. “The Lost Fish” depicts the prejudice towards women, and describes the beauty of women. Moreover, it reveals a truth that women can prove that they are real powerful and meaningful to the world. They have inner wealth, talent and are capable to do anything that men do. It is the reason of why Hung Liu is so popular and well-known by women all around the world as she sways people’s misconception towards women.
The male artists portrayed women as a projection of their ideal woman. The artist’s often overlooked the women’s identity’s and personalities in favour of creating aesthetically pleasing art for themselves and other superior males to view and enjoy. This was especially harmful because the more popular the art grew to be, the more often women were categorised as objects rather than people. The art contributed to gender construction by creating these gender roles and reinforcing that in all situations, men were superior to
Yung, Judy. 1986. Chinese Women of America: A Pictorial History. Seattle. WA: University of Washington Press.
Over the years many artist have viewed sensitive subjects within their work. Sex is one of the sensitive subjects that has been viewed in a positive and negative way. Before and during the 19th century, most paintings, sculptures, and art pieces focused on the features of a human's body. During this time, most artist believed that showing these features of a human could show the role a woman and man had in life. Sculptures in early times focused on the body of a man and showed distinctive features from head to toe. Most sculptures were representations of Greek Gods, which showed their strength and power throughout their body. Showing the sexual side of men in art, lead to showing the sexual features of a woman. The sexual features of a woman was shown throughout paintings and sculptures that mostly represented fertility. suppose to symbolize the sexual union between him and the woman. The idea of showing sex in art has been shaped and formed into various perspectives.
Hung Liu is successful in creating a juxtaposing image that tells a story about the many aspects of her Chinese origins. According to the painting, not all life in China is surrounded by beauty and elegance, like many believe it to be based on the traditional historical customs. Liu makes her point using a brilliant yet subtle progression, moving from the ideal to reality. Making use of the various principles and elements of art in her work creates a careful visual composition that benefit and support the painting’s achievements as a whole. This oil painting, being approximately 13 years old now, will hold a special place in Chinese history for the rest of its existence. The ideas Hung Liu portrays in Interregnum may help reform a social movement in the country by making her viewers socially aware of the cruel conditions the Chinese are facing under Communist rule, and this is all made possible through the assimilation of the principles and
Power and Money do not Substitute Love and as it denotes, it is a deep feeling expressed by Feng Menglong who was in love with a public figure prostitute at his tender ages. Sadly, Feng Menglong was incapable to bear the expense of repossessing his lover. Eventually, a great merchant repossessed his lover, and that marked the end of their relationship. Feng Menglong was extremely affected through distress and desperation because of the separation and he ultimately, decided to express his desolation through poems. This incidence changed his perception and the way he represents women roles in his stories. In deed, Feng Menglong, is among a small number of writers who portrayed female as being strong and intelligent. We see a different picture build around women by many authors who profoundly tried to ignore the important role played by them in the society. Feng Menglong regards woman as being bright and brave and their value should never be weighed against
painting of a woman be so famous?” Well, probably one of the reasons this painting is
Slatkin, Wendy. "Contemporary Art: 1970-Present." Slatkin, Wendy. Women Artists in History: From Antiquity to the Present. Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall, 2001. 266-267.
"Whilst some feminists have argued to be included in 'male stream' ideologies, many have also long argued that women are in important respects both different from and superior to men, and that the problem they face is not discrimination or capitalism but male power." (Bryson, 2003, p. 3). The feminist art movement is unclear in its description because some describe this movement as art that was simply created by women and others describe it as art with anti-male statements in mind. For the focal point of this paper, the goal will be to analyze several female artists and their works of art who influenced, and who are said to have made powerful influence both in the feminist art movement from a political and societal perspective, then and today. With that being said, we will start with the female artist Judy Chicago and a quote from her that calcifies her position as an artist. "I believe in art that is connected to real human feeling that extends itself beyond the limits of the art world to embrace all people who are striving for alternatives in an increasingly dehumanized
The last poem “The Fish” illustrates the sorrow of life itself. The skin, the blood, the entrails, everything of the fish depicts vividly and dramatically. The poet seems to share the same pain with the fish observing the scene and enjoys the detail just like enjoying an artwork. The poet lets the fish go because she is totally touched by the process between life and death; she loves life but meanwhile, is deeply hurt by the life. In the poem, the fish has no fear towards her; the desire to life is in the moving and tragic details when faces the
again of a yearning desire to return home “Now, lost and abandoned, I think of my old home”. These quotes depict how Lady Wen-chi longed for her home, and how she felt broken by the ordeal. Eventually Lady Wen-chi settled into her forced situation and falling in love with her abductor. Her lengthy stint with the nomads came to an end when she was finally ransomed back to China. Lady Wen-chiwas then faced with the harrowing decision; to stay with the husband and kids she loved, and stay in the land and terrain she isn’t entirely accustomed to, or to return home to all of the amenities and prosperity of her native land. The paintings and poems are from a handscroll, obtained in 1973 by The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Lady Wen-chi was an innovator
Chinese art went through many different stages starting from the year 1842. But the massacre of Tiananmen Square in the year 1989 was a turning point in the political life of China and in the country's art. Until the year 1992 art in China was underground, but it kept expanding. As a result of that, some Chinese artists started to do art works that rebel against their government and express their feelings towards China. One of these artists is the famous Chinese artist Ai Weiwei who expressed in each piece of art he did, his feelings that China should let its people break away from the rotten traditional, in order to express their thoughts freely.
The opening paragraph of the story emphasizes the limitations of the individual’s vision of nature. From the beginning, the four characters in the dingy do not know “the colors of the sky,” but all of them know “the colors of the sea.” This opening strongly suggests the symbolic situations in which average peo...
These works may be labeled objectifying also because a male painter painted them. Today, these works could be seen as empowering to women. The first painting gives off an emotional ride of one duplicated woman or two women. The second painting shows an emotional journey of prayer and relaxation of a woman sitting in the lotus position. The third painting could represent a strong and empowered women respecting herself and her body. Times have changed and so have views of women in society which have influenced a change in how people view nude women in
to historyofcosmetics, the first appearance of body painting in the west was in 1933 by a
Feminism has been an extremely controversial and significant subject over the centuries. The issue of equality between men and women have been questioned and exceedingly debated upon, why men were treated and considered the ‘superior’ gender. During the 1960’s, civil rights, protests against war and gay and lesbian movements were at its peak. It was the period of time, which the Feminist art movement had emerged, also known as the “second-wave” of feminism, shifting away from modernism. Women wanted to gain equal rights as men within the art world. Feminist artists such as Cindy Sherman, Carolee Schneemann and Hannah Wilke pursued to change the world and perspectives on women through their artworks, specifically in body art. Their goal was to “influence cultural attitudes and transform stereotypes.” (DiTolla. T, 2013)