tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27589424695410565692024-03-05T20:22:37.346-08:00the art of now: teaching chinese artResources and Case Studies for teachers and students learning about contemporary art in China: interviews with artists, questions and readings. An Art Teacher in Chinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14500023876159590633noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2758942469541056569.post-83302827648273405992020-07-08T05:13:00.002-07:002023-01-28T17:02:53.014-08:00Dong Yuan: Everything Under Heaven<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
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</span><span lang="" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 28px;">Dong Yuan in her Beijing studio, 2019. Photograph Luise Guest</span><br />
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<b><span lang="" style="color: #767171; font-family: calibri, sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 128;">For PRELIMINARY, HSC </span></b><b><span lang="" style="color: red; font-family: calibri, sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">and </span></b><b><span lang="" style="color: #767171; font-family: calibri, sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 128;">IB students, this Case Study is focused on:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang=""><font face="inherit" size="3">This Case Study focuses on the practices of the artist and the critic. In the first instance, students encounter the artworks themselves, in the gallery and/or in reproduction and/or online. A sequence of learning activities begins with a discussion of selected works, followed by reading the examples of art writing provided (models of critical practice), and responding to focus questions. Whole class and small group tasks are suggested, with links to other artists, and to other useful resources. An extended response question, with marking guidelines, requires students to develop an argument that demonstrates their understanding of the artist’s practice in his social and historical context.<o:p></o:p></font></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; font-weight: 400; margin: 0cm 28.8pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang=""><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiS262ODJeF0CPk9u39gDTfOWCq7i_SxsWHhPYmRLiy8xf-khj1tYVctvvxz7_u7wNehUfs7wP_-OR0517p3Kssr4Y8ygCgimx4b124KNPfdI1QqQBMjjEyLDsLEujmyHJTgltuaToIuA/s5224/Grandmother%2527s+House+and+Bosch%2527s+Garden+Installation+View+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3374" data-original-width="5224" height="259" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiS262ODJeF0CPk9u39gDTfOWCq7i_SxsWHhPYmRLiy8xf-khj1tYVctvvxz7_u7wNehUfs7wP_-OR0517p3Kssr4Y8ygCgimx4b124KNPfdI1QqQBMjjEyLDsLEujmyHJTgltuaToIuA/w400-h259/Grandmother%2527s+House+and+Bosch%2527s+Garden+Installation+View+1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><font face="inherit" size="2"><i>Dong Yuan, Grandmother's House and Bosch's Garden, Installation view, 2013, Image courtesy the artist.</i></font></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><font face="inherit"><font size="2"><i>Dong Yuan, Grandma's House (detail) 2013, acrylic and oil on separate canvases, image courtesy the artist<br /></i></font><br /></font><div style="text-align: left;">
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<span style="color: black;"><span><font face="inherit">Dong
Yuan (b.1984) graduated from the Experimental Arts Department of Beijing’s
Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2008. Her MFA work focused on discovering new
ways to work with paint and canvas – creating large-scale 3D installations that
simulate places invested with personal and cultural memory.</font></span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15pt; margin: 0cm 11.35pt 7.5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px;">
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<span style="color: black;"><span><font face="inherit">She applies a meticulous illusionist
technique to paintings on separate small canvases that are placed together to
make up ambitious installations, recording aspects of memory and a changing
world. </font></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span><font face="inherit">Dong Yuan lives and works in Beijing.</font></span></span></div><div style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span><font face="inherit"><br /></font></span></span></div><div style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span><span style="color: #555555;"><font face="inherit">To the young artist Dong Yuan, the world within her grandmother’s house was the context of her life’s initial visual memory as well as the earliest source of her world-view. These represent the most unadorned and down-to-earth way of living and experiencing. Dong Yuan reassembles her visual memory of grandmother’s house through one after another large or small picture. Each object in grandmother’s house, although mundane and plain, contain a soulful, ritual essence. (Busan Biennale, 2014 </font></span></span></span><a href="http://www.busanbiennale.org/eng/index.php?pCode=MN2000155&pg=2&mode=view&idx=2005" style="text-align: justify;">http://www.busanbiennale.org/eng/index.php?pCode=MN2000155&pg=2&mode=view&idx=2005</a>)</div><div style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZyFB8D1uKHXbKA67Cip5Dxvzkua-if0y4gJhCrGLYkUdbG6OcWNmbynjJw0RTkOuWU6elzPEsB-2QshbQC-BzPpJz246BOrDJaPuepPTas_hs5r0eFLEYsJeUUzA2t_5OIJFHaxarsGs/s600/9c4aiSdPn.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZyFB8D1uKHXbKA67Cip5Dxvzkua-if0y4gJhCrGLYkUdbG6OcWNmbynjJw0RTkOuWU6elzPEsB-2QshbQC-BzPpJz246BOrDJaPuepPTas_hs5r0eFLEYsJeUUzA2t_5OIJFHaxarsGs/s320/9c4aiSdPn.jpg" /></a></div><div style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;"><br /></div>
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<span><font face="inherit"><span style="color: #b71e42;">•</span><span>A
Short History of Everything: the painted world of Dong Yuan: </span><a href="http://theartlife.com.au/2017/a-short-history-of-everything-the-painted-world-of-dong-yuan/">http://theartlife.com.au/2017/a-short-history-of-everything-the-painted-world-of-dong-yuan/</a></font></span></div>
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<span><font face="inherit"><span style="color: #b71e42;">•</span><span>In
Grandmother’s House: Gao Rong and Dong Yuan </span><a href="http://www.randian-online.com/np_feature/in-grandmothers-house/">http://www.randian-online.com/np_feature/in-grandmothers-house/</a></font></span></div>
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<span><font face="inherit"><span style="color: #b71e42;">•</span><span>Secret Language of Women:
‘Subterranean Feminism’ in the Work of Three Chinese Artists </span><a href="https://www.wagic.org/blank-2/2017/12/11/Secret-Language-of-Women-%E2%80%98Subterranean-Feminism%E2%80%99-in-the-Work-of-Three-Chinese-Artists">https://www.wagic.org/blank-2/2017/12/11/Secret-Language-of-Women-%E2%80%98Subterranean-Feminism%E2%80%99-in-the-Work-of-Three-Chinese-Artists</a></font></span></div>
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<span><font face="inherit"><span style="color: #b71e42;">•</span><span>Luise Guest, ‘Half the Sky:
Conversations with Women Artists in China’. Piper Press, 2016</span></font></span></div>
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<font face="inherit"><!--[if ppt]--><span><span>•White Rabbit Collection:</span></span></font></div><div style="direction: ltr; language: en-GB; line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.25in; margin-top: 10pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;"><font face="inherit"><span style="color: #b71e42;"><span> </span></span><a href="https://explore.dangrove.org/objects?query=Dong+Yuan&limit=40" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px;">https://explore.dangrove.org/objects?query=Dong+Yuan&limit=40</a><span style="color: #b71e42; text-indent: -0.25in;"> </span></font></div>
<h3 style="direction: ltr; line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.25in; margin-top: 10pt; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;"><b style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px;"><span lang=""><font color="#9e9e9e" face="inherit">Readings and Questions</font></span></b></h3><div><b style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px;"><span lang=""><font color="#9e9e9e" face="inherit"><br /></font></span></b></div><div><font face="inherit">Answer the questions after Readings 1 and 2, and complete Activity 3 before attempting the Extended Response question.</font></div></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></h2><p style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;">Reading 1: <span style="font-weight: normal;"><font face="inherit" size="2">Excerpted from 'A Short History of Everything: the painted world of Dong Yuan', <a href="http://theartlife.com.au/category/art-life/" rel="category tag" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; letter-spacing: 2px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px !important; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration-line: none; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline;">ART LIFE</a><span style="background-color: #f2f2f2; text-align: left;">, </span><span class="date s-11" style="background-color: #f2f2f2; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(136, 136, 136); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: -1px 0px 0px 2px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 7px; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle;">Jul 03, 2017</span><span style="background-color: #f2f2f2; text-align: left;"> </span><a href="http://theartlife.com.au/2017/a-short-history-of-everything-the-painted-world-of-dong-yuan/" style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;">http://theartlife.com.au/2017/a-short-history-of-everything-the-painted-world-of-dong-yuan/</a></font></span></p><h2 align="center" style="text-align: center;"><div style="background: white; margin: 0cm 28.8pt; text-align: start; text-indent: -18pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 28.8pt;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15pt; margin: 0cm 11.35pt 7.5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px;"><font face="inherit"><span style="background-color: #f2f2f2; color: #424242; text-align: start;">When Dong Yuan learned that the place of her happiest childhood memories –– her grandmother’s house in the countryside near Dalian –– was about to be demolished, she decided to re-create it in paint, one room at a time, in a two-year-long project that she described as ‘fixing it in memory’. Exhibited in 2013 as ‘A Short History of Everything: Grandma’s House and Bosch’s Garden’, this installation of more than 800 separate paintings marries the fantastical universe imagined by Hieronymus Bosch in ‘Garden of Earthly Delights’ with a rural Chinese family home, replete with heavy furniture and cabinets filled with teacups, rice bowls, folded flowered quilts and New Year pictures. </span><em style="background-color: #f2f2f2; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #424242; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;">Bosch’s Paradise</em><span style="background-color: #f2f2f2; color: #424242; text-align: start;"> (2013), is a part of this larger work, an installation of more than 300 paintings and objects. Hanging on the walls and filling the drawers and shelves of ornate wooden cabinets, they depict elements taken from Bosch’s fevered imaginings, including tiny naked figures, monsters, animals and insects, plants and flowers, and landscapes that recall the rural beauty of the countryside around Dalian, long ago. Exhibited in Beijing alongside the painted contents of her grandmother’s house, these juxtapositions of Spring Festival folk art, porcelain figures of household gods in their shrines, mass-produced calendars, pictures of Mao, and all the patterned quotidian objects that once filled a humble rural home sit comfortably alongside a visual catalogue of Bosch’s imagery: removed from their original contexts they suggest that reality and imagination are two sides of the same coin. An astonishing feat of trompe l’oeil, it’s a reflection on Dong Yuan’s personal journey from rural Liaoning Province to the global megacity of Beijing, connecting her dreams and memories of a fast-vanishing world with the purely physical elements of everyday life.</span></font></div><p style="line-height: 15pt; margin: 0cm 11.35pt 7.5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #f2f2f2; text-align: start;"><font face="inherit">Questions</font></span></p><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15pt; margin: 0cm 11.35pt 7.5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #f2f2f2; text-align: start;"><font face="inherit">1. Why did Dong Yuan decide to make the 'Grandmother's House' installation?</font></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15pt; margin: 0cm 11.35pt 7.5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #f2f2f2; text-align: start;"><font face="inherit">2. How does the work create a record of Dong Yuan's own life journey?</font></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15pt; margin: 0cm 11.35pt 7.5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #f2f2f2; text-align: start;"><font face="inherit">3. Can you speculate as to the connections she makes between her grandma's house and the fantastical world imagined by Hieronymus Bosch?</font></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15pt; margin: 0cm 11.35pt 7.5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #f2f2f2; text-align: start;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGMdwDnkRQ5n1jszJ6FYscAytzKZCFQf8yT3dUmW63S6eBgMwXfhXbe6VP0DFPcP6ow9nGN74Jj-3YLpkEcIILTINbbMb3PBl0xOFQmHETax8StXG3-zR6MQVCNdY79KfPFU1yMZFqbGw/s1177/20191022_091729.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="883" data-original-width="1177" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGMdwDnkRQ5n1jszJ6FYscAytzKZCFQf8yT3dUmW63S6eBgMwXfhXbe6VP0DFPcP6ow9nGN74Jj-3YLpkEcIILTINbbMb3PBl0xOFQmHETax8StXG3-zR6MQVCNdY79KfPFU1yMZFqbGw/w400-h300/20191022_091729.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><font face="inherit" size="2"><i>Dong Yuan, 'Grandmother's House' (details of works in progress in the artist's studio), 2019. Photograph Luise Guest</i></font></span></div><p style="line-height: 15pt; margin: 0cm 11.35pt 7.5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #f2f2f2; text-align: start;"><font face="inherit"><b>Reading 2</b>: </font></span><span style="background-color: #f2f2f2; font-family: inherit; text-align: start;">Excerpted and adapted from 'In Grandmother's House', </span><i style="background-color: #f2f2f2; font-family: inherit; text-align: start;">Ran Dian</i><span style="background-color: #f2f2f2; font-family: inherit; text-align: start;">, 2012 </span><a href="http://www.randian-online.com/np_feature/in-grandmothers-house/" style="text-align: left; text-indent: -18pt;">http://www.randian-online.com/np_feature/in-grandmothers-house/</a></p><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15pt; margin: 0cm 11.35pt 7.5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px;"><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="content" style="line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 5px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><font face="inherit">Dong Yuan reflects on the significance of the quotidian; recreating in paint, object by object, the interior of the house near Dalian where she spent much of her childhood. Paintings of plants on the kitchen window ledge, an umbrella leaning in a corner (and even the individual raindrops it sheds on the floor), her uncle’s pants hanging from a hook on the wall, a portrait of Mao, are stacked against her studio walls. It is a process of “fixing it in memory” she says. Working from her own memories, conversations with relatives, sketches, photographs and diagrams, she has already completed more than 400 paintings. Previously she has painted the view from every stairwell window of her apartment block, and the entire contents of the tiny apartments in which she lived as a student [ ... ] her reflection on her own personal journey has taken her back to reflect on her family.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><font face="inherit">Dong Yuan’s works are a meditation on the beauty of the everyday and the familiar, providing a connection to the unsung domestic labor of women. They also memorialize childhood for her generation of artists, in the way that Cultural Revolution 'scar art' imagery functioned for the previous generation. In a similar way, albeit more nuanced and without the bitterness, her work can be seen as a response to the dramatic pace of change in China. </font><span style="font-family: inherit;">At once personal and universal, she records a way of life which has ultimately turned out to be fragile and ephemeral. They are artifacts of memory.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Questions</b></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">1. How might it be possible to classify Dong Yuan's 'Grandmother's House' installation as a feminist work?</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">2. In what way does this work represent social change in China?</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">3. Why do you think the writer describes Dong Yuan's works as 'artifacts of memory'</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><b>3. Comparing Dong Yuan with Song Dong</b></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">Read this passage about Song Dong's 'Waste Not', an installation of 10,000 objects taken from his mother's house: <a href="https://www.art-almanac.com.au/song-dong-waste-not/">https://www.art-almanac.com.au/song-dong-waste-not/</a>. </p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">Write a paragraph describing Song Dong's installation 'Waste Not'.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">Write a paragraph describing Dong Yuan's installation 'Grandmother's House'.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">Write a paragraph comparing the two works in terms of both material and conceptual practice.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_xs5lqfZ3i3ponb0mbpRPNHr83CYliHsIHBGbcVQSPIcY6Oi_ZXy1fE6tM51WiNRUNmmcT-PPupfm2tjZ1Who50jfgla3DPBY4k5WtD2F1q2Nfaf0mQXJOh1UqGYteowIGMU5FnD2xog/s3369/Dong+Yuan%252C+Grandmother%25E2%2580%2599s+House+Cabinet+No.+5+detail+Painting+Installation+2014+100+x+156cm+image+courtesy+the+artist.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3151" data-original-width="3369" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_xs5lqfZ3i3ponb0mbpRPNHr83CYliHsIHBGbcVQSPIcY6Oi_ZXy1fE6tM51WiNRUNmmcT-PPupfm2tjZ1Who50jfgla3DPBY4k5WtD2F1q2Nfaf0mQXJOh1UqGYteowIGMU5FnD2xog/s320/Dong+Yuan%252C+Grandmother%25E2%2580%2599s+House+Cabinet+No.+5+detail+Painting+Installation+2014+100+x+156cm+image+courtesy+the+artist.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><font size="2"><i>Dong Yuan, Grandmother's Cabinet No. 5, acrylic on multiple canvases. image courtesy the artist.</i></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">To conclude this Case Study, select THREE works by Dong Yuan and write a detailed description and analysis of each work, using the Structural Frame. </p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">Finally, attempt this Extended Response question. 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It's been such a pleasure working with wonderful teachers and senior art students from six different Sydney schools over the last few weeks, introducing them to aspects of contemporary art from China. Given the pandemic and current restrictions we've been using Zoom. Nothing can replace being physically present and engaging in dialogue and discussion, of course, but it's been a great experience for me to be 'zoomed' into many different classrooms - and I hope for the students too!<br />
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Recent talks for senior secondary students have included:<br />
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<li>'From Mao to Now: Introducing Chinese Contemporary Art' - a historical survey</li>
<li>'Rethinking Ink in Contemporary Chinese Art' - a focus on the work of Xu Bing, Gu Wenda and Yang Yongliang</li>
<li>'Holding Up Half the Sky: Women Artists in China'</li>
<li>'A Woman's Work is Never Done: the everyday and the domestic in the work of Gao Rong, Dong Yuan and Tao Aimin' - a case study of three female contemporary artists</li>
<li>'The Art of Spectacle' - Xu Zhen and MadeIn Company</li>
<li>'Lost in Translation: unreadable calligraphy and the power of language in the work of Xu Bing, Gu Wenda and Tao Aimin</li>
<li>'Folk Art to High Art?' - the work of Gao Rong, Wang Lei and Li Hongbo</li>
<li>'The Poetics of Porcelain: Clay and the Contemporary' - the work of Geng Xue and Liu Jianhua</li>
<li>'Urbanism and Contemporary Chinese Photography'</li>
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However, I will tailor a talk to the needs and interests of your particular group, focusing on the artists you want to include in your case studies, including sample short answer and extended response questions.</div>
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For more information about availability and pricing, or to book a talk for your students or a workshop or professional learning session for teachers, use this link on my 'Teaching Chinese Art' website: <a href="https://www.teachingchineseart.com/contact.html" target="_blank">https://www.teachingchineseart.com/contact.html</a></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: inherit;"><b>To teachers:</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: inherit;">In this Year of the Rat 2020, despite all our anxieties ranging from viral plagues to politicians, from bush fires to climatic catastrophe, art still matters. And the art produced by contemporary artists in China grapples with all the most significant issues of the day. I hope you will find inspiration here in these case studies and suggested learning activities, in artist interviews and extracts of art writing so that you can introduce your students to the extraordinary art emerging from mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong.<span style="background-color: white;"> The Year of the Rat has certainly not been an auspicious one thus far, there is no denying, but I hope you will find materials here to assist you in learning about some interesting artists, whether you are learning/teaching from home in isolation or at school.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: inherit;">In the case studies and other resources here you'll find a wealth of interesting artists and artworks. I hope you enjoy the discovery!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Who should use this site?</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Anybody with an interest in cutting-edge Chinese contemporary art! But most especially art students from Years 10 - 12 and their teachers.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><span style="color: #674ea7; font-size: medium;"><b>Who/what will you find here?</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">A range of interesting, very diverse, contemporary Chinese artists - from painters to photographers, installation and conceptual artists to sculptors and video artists. The author of the site, Sydney-based art educator, researcher and writer, Luise Guest, has met and interviewed the artists represented here, and has reviewed exhibitions of their work. Some are younger emerging artists, some are very well-established significant figures in the artworld. They represent new ideas about practice. They indicate how the artworld and contemporary art in China is changing.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><span style="color: #674ea7; font-size: medium;"><b>Who/what will you NOT find here?</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Artists such as Ai Weiwei, Yue Minjun, Zhang Xiaogang or Wang Guangyi who are well represented in textbooks, journal articles, the popular press and museum/gallery web sites. They are referenced in the more general Chinese art pages but do not have a separate page for their work. The reason? You can easily look elsewhere to find research source material on those artists. The purpose of this blog is to open up a range of new and interesting artists for students to research and write about.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><span style="color: #674ea7; font-size: medium;"><b>WHAT will you find here?</b></span></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">A separate page, accessed by a tab at the top of the home page, for each artist</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Information about each artist's practice</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Extracts of critical writing, feature articles and interviews about each artist</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Links to other useful web sites and sources for further reading and research - these are listed within each artist's page</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Links to video interviews or relevant Youtube clips</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Images of the artists and their works - these are shown with their sources and should not be reproduced without permission</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>Questions</b></span> for student response ranging from fairly simple comprehension questions to more challenging and thought-provoking questions and suggestions for extended responses or essays - teachers and students may work through each question or choose those most appropriate to them - or modify them</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>And a big 'what if' question to get you thinking at the end of each artist page</b></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">This blog will have new artists - and new questions or activities - added on a regular basis. </span><br />
<span style="color: #990000; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>So: watch this space!</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">You can add comments, suggestions or questions for the author.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: #f4cccc;">Important: all images if reproduced (only for educational purposes) must be credited as they are here in this web site</span></span></div>
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Check out the Yang Yongliang Case Study Page - heaps of readings, focus questions, an essay question with marking guidelines, and lots of information about this wonderful artist!An Art Teacher in Chinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14500023876159590633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2758942469541056569.post-65246276982576631282013-01-04T16:19:00.000-08:002018-01-25T23:25:09.189-08:00<h2>
<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Why learn about contemporary art in China?</span></h2>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Because it is so exciting, so new, so constantly changing and so important!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And because there is more to Chinese art than Ai Weiwei (interesting and important though he is)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong are recognised as three of the key art centres on the planet and their importance in the art market and the field of contemporary art continues to grow. Taipei continues to develop as a newer art centre and some of the most interesting artists practising in a range of disciplines are working in Taiwan.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This blog contains teaching/learning resources on contemporary artists practising in China right now. It includes painters, sculptors, photomedia artists and artists who work conceptually, in documenting performance works,multimedia, installation and a wide range of other expressive forms.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It includes some artists whose work is well known internationally, and for whom there is already a great wealth of research resources. It also includes artists who WILL be well known in the future, emerging artists whose work is developing in exciting directions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It includes images of their work, interviews with the artists, extracts of critical writing and questions that can be adapted for Visual Arts students at different levels, and for different curruculum models.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is searchable, and will grow over time as more interviews are conducted and more artists are added.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It includes links to other websites, including my blog <a href="http://www.anartteacherinchina.blogspot.com/">www.anartteacherinchina.blogspot.com</a> and links to other useful resources in this field including galleries, publications, pinterest boards, video clips and blogs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Newsflash: it now links to my main website <a href="http://www.teachingchineseart.com/">www.teachingchineseart.com</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Click on the '<b><span style="color: #351c75;">About</span></b>' tab for more detailed information about ways to use the blog, and about other resources or teaching and learning ideas.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Click on the '<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Art of Revolution</b></span>' tab for some background information explaining where contemporary art in China came from and how it developed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Each artist has a tab which will take you to their page. Each page could form the basis of a senior Visual Arts Case Study. Two or more artists could be compared to form comparitive art historical or critical essays.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The artists and their diverse practices will also provide sources of ideas and inspiration for student artworks and bodies of work.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Zhang Xiaogang, Big Family, oil on canvas, image source: Saatchi Gallery UK</i></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>The pages on artists Hu Qinwu, Liang Yuanwei, Lam Tung-pang, Carol Lee Mei-kuen. Shi Zhiying and Pu Jie originated with learning materials produced as a result of the NSW Premier's Kingold Chinese Creative Arts Travelling Scholarship in 2011.</i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><br /></i></span>
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