￢ﾀﾜPublic art is both overlap and contradict concepts, because it has to meet the creators of artistic expression, but also take care of the public will.￢ﾀﾝ Public art is not only a work of art placed in public places, through public participation and discussion, but also constitute a social evolution.￢ﾀﾝ (Ho Siu Kee: 2005) Hong Kong government and conglomerate￢ﾀﾙs art projects in recent years are way better then the plans in the past (before 2010). But the form of public art is still the same at decades, not much different. And the content of programs and artworks are all like a losing controversial public art, all of it have become widely appealing entertainment pastime. It avoided all sensitive subjects to the government and conglomerate. You can clearly feel the bureaucratic. But art is not about this, when there is no freedom to be the norm in the art is false. And that is the most thing should not have. The government and conglomerate in addition to being taught and to forced indoctrination, people should be teach for create their own ideas.
Recalling the history of Hong Kong￢ﾀﾙs public art. The first by a conscious display of artworks in public spaces in order to convey a message, is the monument (memorial nature) artworks appeared in the 1880s e.g. the statue of Queen Victoria in the Victoria Park and King George VI in Hong Kong Zoological and Botanical Gardens... "Hong Kong's early monumental "public art", which is a symbol of the British colonial government hegemony, to help create a specific set of values and language system, to naturally maintain between a ruler and the people Consensus." (Malcolm, 2000) In 1960s Hong Kong was purely to show some non- governing powers of murals and sculptures in Chater Garden. In 1...
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...ce and place it in a space forever of no relevant and use the gallery system to show the sculptures. Public art shout be any way, form or mode more then look like an art piece. If art is about how art inspire people, it can be like just happen for one minute instead of eternal. Public art is Hong Kong always pre-defined a group of viewers before they do the project. But most of the audience is not based on a group to produce, but because the common purpose. Also the public art is not about to show how rich and good taste of the city of buying expensive artwork for showing, if yes then it is as boring as the auction house (Capitalism). As art is much more just about decoration, making people experience is the most important thing. Art can let us to experience and imagine another way of life, to explore uncharted territory, temporarily living in a different world.
Ai Weiwei was born during the Cultural Revolution in China of 1950s, he inherited a lot of his political knowledge from his father who was a poet called Ai Quig. Ai Quig was then later exiled with his family to re-education camps on the out reaches of a desert in 1958 for questioning government authority. After the Cultural Revolution, Chinese citizens were allowed to travel outside their borders again in 1970s. As a young man, the place that Ai Weiwei dreamed about going to was New York. He went to New York and was exposed to its western influences, its liberty and freedom of expression (Springford, 2011).Using photography Weiwei recorded and documented everything that inspired him. Weiwei visited galleries and art museums that exposed him to the world of conceptual art, becoming influenced by Andy Warhol and Marcel Duchamp. Ai Weiwei admired the ways of artists who could simply proclaim what was art and what wasn’t art, how Duchamp questioned art and when something gets to be art (Springford, 2011).Ai Weiwei came back to China in 1993 to take care of his sick father, and found himself drawn to his responsibility as an artist, to take the task of re-awakening his country through his art and to expose his thoughts on the corrupt and controlling nature of China’s government (Philipson,2012). Ai Weiwei has always been an outspoken artist. In the course of his art making, Weiwei has used a form of activism in his art, with political ideologies that exist because of the Chinese government. He also uses a sense of memory and the countrys past and history. Most of his art involves the public and their outlook of the government. Weiwei requests engagement from the public as a show of protest in his artworks (Harris & Zucker, 2009). When...
“I don’t want to be part of this kind of denying reality. We live in this time. We have to speak out” (Klayman). Ai Weiwei is an internationally known Chinese artist as well as activist, and his motivation and determination can be summed up by this quote. In all of his pieces, Weiwei critically examines the social and administrative issues facing China today. Many of his works exhibit multiple themes that can be interpreted in various different ways. This lends itself to the universal appeal of his art and makes it a more effective medium of conveying his messages to viewers. Ai Weiwei’s activist artwork—and activist artwork in general—is important to society because it effectively forces the viewer to engage in a self-reflective process that makes the viewer critically examine his or her own beliefs and world. Nevertheless, censorship greatly hinders the dissemination of the critical and thought provoking messages of Ai Weiwei’s art and makes his artwork less effective. In order to gain a better understanding of the relationship of Ai Weiwei’s activist art and the Communist Party’s subsequent censorship, I will examine Ai Weiwei’s influential childhood, his specific brand of activist artwork, the censorship of the Chinese government and the effects of censorship on the effectiveness of Ai Weiwei’s art.
Fleming, Ronald Lee. Public art for the public.(Art in Public Places Program)(Art in Aechitecture Program). Public Interest, 2005. Print.
Monuments Men (both the movie and the actual historical event) is set during World War 2, when the Nazi’s are stealing countless peices of precious artwork and hiding them away in secret locations. For this reason, a group of 345 men and women from 13 nations who are all historians, architects, and experts on the topic of art, are gathered together to recover stolen artworks. Since Hitler ordered the artwork be destroyed, the men and women must work together as fast as possible in order to save as many pieces in the time allowed. When art is discussed, either in context to the Monuments Men group or not, it is referred to as the basis of the culture of our society. Art illuminates our inner lives and enriches our emotional world. The value
There are thousands of types of art work all over the world including mural art which is one of the oldest types of art, painted on walls and ceilings that are usually filled with many different colors. Murals show hope, values and memories of the community. Public art is outside of the gallery or museum, public art exist outdoors. It shapes are abstract, realistic, built, etc. Public art is can express community values, and enhance the environment. However, as our evolving culture of technology increase, more of those mural art, and public art are vanishing in the eyes of the people.
In this semester, we have visited three public art agencies of NYC, which are the Percent for Art Program, the MTA’s Arts for Transit program, and Creative Time. These public art organizations commission public art to the public. They integrate and apply arts to sites through process and research based on artists’ practices. Public art agencies have similar goal that is to put artworks in appropriate sites and to get response from audiences. In this paper, I will discuss the three agencies we visited vary in rules of agency and patronage practices.
The first art that interested me was the art of Indonesia which in this exhibit depicted the culture, history and art of Indonesian people. For instance, Bali a small island in the Indonesia valued most of its art based on the rich resources they occupied such as most art was composed of gold, diamond and sapphires which people of Bali believed that it will resemble their higher standards in the society. Art of Bali amazed me the most when it came to their “King’s crown” and “Queen’s crown” which was completely “fashioned in pure gold with diamonds, rubies, and sapphires” (Bali). The king’s crown was much simpler compare to queen’s crown which contained many varied of gold decorative that looked like gold flowers, and all of its designs such as rubies or sapphires were perfectly horizontally lined to each other that sort of depicted as a shiny necklace. The Bali’s art that I observed was very interesting know about the society they lived in those centuries with representation of their upscale society (Bali).
Hong Kong use to be a fishing village in the late 19th century it later evolved into a military port of strategic importance and eventually an international financial center, which is one of the most densely populated areas in the world after the engagement of Imperial China and the British Colony in the territory.
So important had painting become, that some literati chose to focus their entire lives on mastery of the art, rather than pursuing government careers, even though their rulers were no longer alien to China. In the increasingly urban and educated society
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.
What a monument is portraying is an important factor, the message that a monument displays is one of the reasons it may “stand” or get neglected and moved from one museum to another until it finds it’s way into a dumpster. Amongst the most important parts in the construction of monuments or
The Chinese art boom of the 2000s will be remembered as one of the most influential periods in modern art history. Chinese art dates back to the sixth century during the period of the Northern and Southern dynasties. During the Sui and Tang dynasties (500-1000 A.D), China was reunifying, creating a period of prosperity and a flourishing art and literature market. Art during this time reflected many different cultural backgrounds around China. These art pieces included paintings, calligraphies, Buddhist sculptures, metalwork and ceramics. After this period came the Song dynasty. The Song dynasty was an era that shaped Chinese culture. During this time, art was mainly focused on textiles that were produced for trade, and ceramics. The next major era included the Ming and Qing dynasties. Art was flourishing, and porcelains were being produced as exports to ship around the world. With the fall of the Qing dynasty, introduced the twentieth century and the Communist era. In the beginning of the century, artists were involved with reform movements to promote nationalism and modernism. Major artists went abroad for training, those who stayed created private art societies. Most of the art practiced included “fine art” paintings. However, previous art practices like calligraphy and ceramics were no longer taught in art schools. In the 1940s, the Communist party inflicted standards on art production, hindering artists’ ability to create what they wanted. Then finally in the 1980s, a new generation of artists emerged, embracing Western art. These artists tested boundaries, challenged the communist party, and painted about taboo subjects. This is time that the Chinese contemporary art market started to make a name for itself.
In summary, in the process of modernization of the countries that have emerged with its own characteristics related to social development with its own cultural connotation of "modern art" in the content reflects the social modernization in the art form reflects the modern spirit. The contemporary art was continuing to show its value and letting more people and society to recognized the importance of it exited.
The Louvre in Paris: Museums, especially art museums, don’t need to limit artworks in their exhibition space. Art museums, like other industries, can find creative ways to reach their audience. For example, the Louvre displays some of its arts at a subway station in order to attract visitors (Blattberg, 1991). This strategy also is a way to announce new and exciting exhibits at the Louvre.
Art has been around as long as humans have. It has been treasured by every race and respected for many generations. It is the universal language that has no barriers; people of all different ethnicities and languages can interpret the same piece of art. All art that is created shares two common parts; it has a purpose and it is an original piece. Original in this context means that the creator did something that no one has previously done. For example, Bansky, a famous international street artist, created stencil art on the walls and sidewalks of cities. In addition, the purpose of art is for the creator to express ideas, feelings or get the audience to react to a piece. This can be seen in Banskys street art since he expresses his political agenda through humorous works of art. Anyone can decide what art is as long as it communicates an idea and is an original piece.