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Week 9 – Monuments & Study Guide
on Post ’76 & Post ‘89
The Star GroupThe Scarred/native soil Movement
1976 1/8 Zhou Enlai died, 4/4 the wrath incidence
Jilin Meteor shower in March
Tangshan earthquake in Aug (1/2 million dead)
1976 9/9 Mao died ( 4/5Jiang died in Taiwan)
Gang of Four (headed by Mao’s wife, Jiang Qing) arrested
1977 Art schools reopened, rehabilitation of “Rightists”
1978 Four Modernization campaign, Mao Mausoleum completed
1977-78 Building the Mao Mausoleum and Statue – changing image of Mao
1978 Democracy Wall [liberal atmosphere] & the arrest of Wei Jingsheng
The Star/Xingxing 星星 group and the birth of unofficial/dissident art
1979 Official art & party sanction
- Beijing New International Airport Incident of Yuan Yunshen’s Song of Life
1979-80 Academic New Realism – the wound/scar, the native soil/romantic
1978-84 the gradual increase of artistic freedom and the ‘85 movement
1985 Rauschenberg show in Beijing/Shanghai, Zhao Wuji in Hangzhou
1985 – 87 the feverish unofficial (experimental )
-- 3rd weave of modernist art movement
– philosophical, intellectual, idealistic
1989 Feb China Avant-garde opened in Beijing
1989 June 4th Tiananmen Massacre – disillusionment and sarcasm/cynicism
Yuan Yunsheng, Song of Life, 1979
Nude controversial & the Beijing Airport project
Ai Xun, Defending the Wreaths, 1978
Academic New Realismthe scarred, native soil movement
He Duoling, Spring Breezes Have Arrived, 1980
Cheng Conglin, Sonw on X Month X Day 1968, 1979
Chen Yifei, History, 1980
Luo Zhongli, Father, 1980
The Star/Xingxing 星星 group and the birth of unofficial/dissident art
1978-84 the gradual increase of artistic freedom and the 85 movement
1985 Rauschenberg show in Beijing/Shanghai, Zhao Wuji in Hangzhou
1985 – 87 the feverish unofficial (experimental ) art movement
– philosophical, intellectual, idealistic
1989 Feb China/Avant-garde opened in Beijing
1989 June 4th Tiananmen Massacre – disillusionment and sarcasm/cynicism
Unofficial/dissident Art & The Star Group
Wang Keping, the Silence One, 1978 Idol, 1978
Art in Modern China – Post 89
Mao Revisit & Mao Pop
Cynical Realism
Globalization & the Wizard of Contemporary Art World
Zhang Hongtu
Chairman Mao
1989
Mao Pop
Wang Guangyi, Mao Zedong, 1988
Iconoclasm - Demystification of Mao
Wang Guangyi, Great Criticism: Nikon,1992
Appropriation of fetish from Cultural Revolution
Juxtaposition of political and commercial images
Art as social/cultural critique
Wang Jinsong, Taking a Picture in Front of Tiananmen, 1990
Zhang Xiaogang, Blood line: the Big Family No. 2, 1985
Zhang Huan, 12 Square Meters, 1994
Performance, Beijing
Anti-writingWenda Gu & Pseudo Chinese Characters
Book of Heaven, 1988
Installation & Retrospective, 2008
Ai Weiwei “profiled” in New Yorker, May 24, ’10 “It’s not Beautiful – An Artist Takes on the System”
China’s most active “blog” activist artist“Ai had inverted the usual logic of art and politics: instead of enlisting art in the service of his protest, he had enlisted the apparatus of authoritarianism into his art. Dissidents, like artists, need an audience.”
Terminology
Nationalization of Oil Painting
Socialist Realism
Mao’s Yen’an Talk
Woodcut Movement
Mao (Political) Pop
Chan/Zen Art of Lu Shoukun
The Star Group
The Fifth Moon Group
Dsui Hua [of Betty Ecke]
Book From the Sky [of Xu Bing]