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Ceramic flowers and Ai Wei Wei

Dive into Ai Wei Wei's porcelain flowers—symbols of comfort and critique, alluding to China's history. Explore his transformative art merging tradition and social commentary.

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Ceramic flowers and Ai Wei Wei

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  1. Ceramic flowers and Ai Wei Wei Year 7 Art Ceramic Unit

  2. Ai Weiwei is a Beijing-based artist and activist whose work encompasses sculpture, installation, photography, film, architecture, curation, and social criticism. His art has been featured in major solo exhibitions. Ai collaborated with architects Herzog & de Meuron on the “bird’s nest” stadium for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. He has been the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including Amnesty International’s Ambassador of Conscience Award in 2015. He was in an exhibition here in Melbourne at the NGV International last year. WHO IS AI WEI WEI?

  3. WHAT DO YOU THINK THE WORK IS ABOUT?

  4. Blossom 2015 Porcelain flowers WHAT DO YOU THINK THE WORK IS ABOUT?

  5. Blossom drew on and altered natural imagery as well as traditional Chinese arts. The work could have been seen as symbolically offering comfort to the imprisoned, as one would send a bouquet to a hospitalized patient. The profusion of flowers rendered in a cool and brittle material could also have been an ironic reference to China’s famous Hundred Flowers Campaign of 1956, a brief period of government tolerance for free expression that was immediately followed by a severe crackdown against dissent. WHAT DOES IT MEAN?

  6. EXTENSION QUESTIONS; • Where is Ai Wei Wei from? • What kind of art does he make and why? • Find one artwork of Ai Wei Wei’s, write down the title and discuss what you like about the work and why you think it powerful? • If you were to make an installation like Ai Wei Wei, what would you make? Draw it on a page in your visual diary. WHO IS AI WEI WEI?

  7. Ai Wei Wei and porcelain video History of porcelain video CHINA AND TERRACOTTA? CHINA AND PORCELAIN?

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