Ai Weiwei: Chinese Artist

As in many preset-day governments, and the governments depicted in the books, China considerably restricts its citizen’s rights to speech and the press. In Legend, the people must be careful of what they say, as it could bring them serious consequences. For example, after Day is executed according the government, talk of him living spreads extremely quickly but only in the shadows, as it was dangerous if the government overheard; the person could be locked up or even worse. Earlier, when June spread news about the Arcadia bank, she sent out scouts, one per sector, to talk about giving Day plague medicine if he comes to the ten-second place. The spreading of this news shows how easy it is for the government to purposefully spread news, not simply restricting speech but surreptitiously and indirectly forcing it taking advantage of the people 's interest

Ai Weiwei’s activism started in China in the late 2000’s after living in the United States for several years. In addition to social media, his art is also a large part of his activism. His art demonstrates that he does not like the ideals of both the westernization and the communist regime. Weiwei used a Chinese social media website, called Sina Weibo, in order to share his art that was gaining popularity. His art often criticized the immediate acceptance of western ideas. One of his most prominent works uses a traditional Chinese vase that he defaces with a Coca-Cola logo painted over it. His goal was to show that western ideology ruined the

Ai Weiwei is a famous international artist and a most outspoken regional critic in China. Ai express his opinions though social media, visual arts and performing arts. In order to stop Ai’s criticism，Chinese authorities have shut down Ai’s blog, beat him, and take him to secret detention centers.

The film Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (2012) is a documentary directed by Alison Klayman. It follows contemporary Chinese artist and activist, Ai Weiwei, documenting how he stood up against the Chinese government and revealed the horrific actions the government commits. Ai Weiwei differs from other critics of the Chinese government because he uses aggressive words, while his fellow critics do not insult the government or the Communist Party. He uses several mediums to show how the government has acted including his blog and documentaries, showing what Chinese citizens go through on a daily basis.. Weiwei is incredibly brave for putting his life on the line to fight for a better country and a better world.

In the book “Forbidden city” Alex has been going around china a lot to learn about some history, he had also been writing in his journal on what he did each day. Alex has been going around china with Lao Xu to, since was able to teach him a lot about the history. However soon realizes that Loa Xu works for the government and reports on everything Alex and his father have done, because in the book it said if Loa Xu was a spy who reported on all three of us to the party (page 57). My reactions on the book was in the part where Eddie tells Alex Loa Xu works for the government and he is reporting them, to me this came as a shock because all this time I thought Loa Xu was just a guide helping their news report.

Through out all of history we have seen so many heroes and villains all over the world. But one place in particular was in China, with a leader who goes by the name of Mao Zedong. Mao Zedong was a well-known communist leader in china who actually lead the Chinese Communist Party. He is one of the most important people/historical figures in history. At first he was helping China at the beginning of his ruling, nut then his actions had cause China to completely fall and breakout into violence and complete chaos!! Changing the views of his people because whatever good he had done did not matter anymore from his great down fall. During his ruling though some believed that Mao

Mel Chin is a local Contemporary artist from Houston, Texas. He was born in 1951 and was the of his family to be born in the U.S. Mel Chin studied at Peabody College in Nashville, TN, graduating in 1975. Even at a young age Mel Chin had an interest in art. His parents owned a grocery store where Chin would make portraits out of ground meat. Even his high school English teacher Shirley Wiley could see the artistic potential within Chin. “Supplied with a special electricity from the Primal Source, M.Chin hums quietly along without the usual electrical short-circuit, for he is calm, pleasant, gentle, and exploited by us all, including me”, said Chin’s English teacher Shirley Wiley. He drew cartoons for the school paper and put a touch of his artistic skill on school projects. Chin has been active the contemporary art world from the late 1970’s to the present. Mel Chin has received numerous awards and grants for his works since early in this career. One of his earlier achievements was the Visual Arts Commission for the Houston Festival in 1982. Chin works with various mediums ranging from earthworks to sculptors and more. The ideas for Chin’s work usually come from social, political, and environmental issues. Mel Chin can be described as an artist that is difficult to categorize.

In the fall of 2006, a lonely girl by the name of Jessica Jiang sits in the corner of a noisy classroom in Shanghai, China with a unique journey that dates all the way back in a hospital at Edmonton, Canada in the blizzard winter storm of 1999. The faces of the childhood friends flows through my mind, as well as the curiosity of the new things coming into my life. This all started from when I came to China from the United States at a age of 7 years old.

Shan Hai Jing is considered by historians, geographers and academics alike, to be one of the oldest records of ancient Chinese geography, and the most extensive literature on ancient China. The literature has 32 volumes, of which only 18 volumes have survived. Of these 18 volumes, five volumes are relating to the Shan Jing (Classic of Mountains), the next 8 volumes to the Hai Jing (Classic of Seas), another 4 volumes relate to the Da Huang Jing (Classic of Big Land) and the remaining one volume relates to the Hainei Jing (Classic of Mainland). The book, vast as it is, contains long and detailed descriptions of the great mountains and famous rivers of China. Each volume of the book has its own specific system, and therefore, was completed in different periods of time (Owen, 1986). It is important to realize that Shan Hai Jing contains many zhiguai stories and it is the type of Chinese literature which contains a huge number of stories through thousands of years. This book is a very important depiction of the ancient Chinese history and in many cases the actual history is blended with the created stories. Among these stories, the Yellow Emperor is one of the most important characters in ancient Chinese history. Thus, this essay mainly focuses on introducing The Yellow Emperor, his battle with Chi You, his personality and his contribution to

He is viewed as a threat to "harmonious society." The West did not invent revolutionaries. China has an illustrious history of dissidents, anti-authoritarian originals and eccentrics, from the drunken monks of pre-history to counter-culture artists living in today's Beijing. Ai himself is from this long line of free-thinkers and writers, marginalized both by the right and left.

Everyone in China was indoctrinated to look up to the P.L.A. from when they were very. The P.L.A. were seen as heroes and when they came to visit Xin-hua's school the children called them Shu-Shu, which meant Uncle. On the night of June 4th everyone's life was traumatized, but she still had enough strength to keep going in spite of the feeling of devastation. The government had used the people's army against the people; this did not weaken her resolve. In a male dominated society it could be deemed strangle for a woman to be involved in political disobedience. Xin-hua's plan to see Alex and the tapes safely to Canada would require a lot of physical effort. Her physical ability was put to the test when pedaling the che away from a P.L.A. checkpoint. She was so close to accomplishing their goal when she was brutally killed. She died believing that if her country was governed properly the lives of her people could be improved. She had seen many of her friends, classmates and teachers slain by the P.L.A., but had been immensely determined to stand up for what the students believed in, even though she knew it could cost her life. It was her heroic determination to proliferate change within the government that caused her to go on, to help Alex and to give her life. Alex was affected badly by her death because they had become close and he respected her because of her beliefs. He respected the love and determination she had

Art censorship is encroaching on artists’ creating rights and the essential human rights. It shouldn’t be persisted in China. This system from an autocratic government, it eliminates the art works which they don’t like, some masterpieces are destroyed by this system, this system exists for control artists’ voice, they choose the art works which extol the government, and ban those that criticize the government. It totally infringes artists’ rights. WeiWei Ai is a famous artist who fights for human rights in China. According to an interview from Angie Baecker with Ai, in China, people were not allowed to talk about humanity and social situation. Lots of movies and TV shows didn’t pass the art censorship, and the scripts had to examine by the

Hung Liu is a Chinese-American contemporary artist. In the Scales of History exhibition, her artworks mostly illuminates Chinese history. However, Dirty Pink expresses an American issue. From my perspective, this is the most striking artwork that she had created. It is an oil on canvas media. The painting was created in 2015. Although this painting does not eminently reflect Chinese history, it provides a sense of history throughout Liu’s lifetime. Taking this to account, she incorporates American history in Dirty Pink. Through shading, Liu creates volume to show a forlorn emotion. The line quality also expresses apathy. Besides, she uses the subtractive color system to control light with the mixed pigments. In this oil painting, the mixed

In the world live in we have groups that decide to cause violence to push their points across, but as an activist Ai-Wei Wei decided to push his point across through something else, his artwork. Ai-Wei Wei, born May 18, 1957 in Beijing, China, a Chinese artist and activist who produced controversial assortments of creative work, including sculptures, architectural projects, photographs, and videos. While Ai was extolled worldwide, the regularly exasperating and disruptive aspect of his work, also his constitutional outspokenness, triggered diverse forms of suppression from Chinese authorities.

Similarly another artist from the same period yet different culture than Holzer was Ai WeiWei. Ai WeiWei is an architect, activist, filmmaker, curator, and China’s most famous artist. WeiWei is unapologetic in his criticism of the Chinese government, which led to him being famously detained for months in 2011, then released to house arrest. Most of WeiWei’s best known works are installations, often leaning towards the conceptual and creating dialogue between the contemporary world and traditional Chinese modes of thought and production. One of WeiWei’s most famous works is his instillation Sunflower Seeds (2010). The piece is made up of millions of small identical works. Each seed has been individually made and painted by experts working in