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To draw attention to something (e.g., social / political issue)

To raise awareness of/about something

To be inspired by something / someone

To empower someone

To encourage someone

To influence someone

To show / express support for something / someone

To spread the word about something

To give voice to (a social / political issue) or someone (a group of people)

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1. Behaving differently, usually unfairly, toward the members of a group.-Discrimination(n.)

2. The transformation of culture and social institutions over time.-Social change(n.)

3. (v.) To give powe r or authority to.-To empower

4. An outside area which receives attention from a wide audience.-Public arena

5. A form of political participation designed to achieve policy change.-To protest against

6. Problems related to culture, work, lifestyle.-social issues

7. The equal treatment of all people regardless of the colour of their skin.-racial equality

8. People who live together in an area. Or a particular group of people with a certain similarity such as people with the same sexuality or religion-Community

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Firstly , in Ai Weiwei's works, I can see his rebellion. He refuses to accept the public, and he chooses to criticize and persuade in the face of injustice and problems. In his work "Sunflower Seeds", what is called individual independence is shown in the most patient and extreme way. I learned that everyone is a special individual and should have space to show himself instead of obeying the society.His works are thought-provoking, showing the seriousness of the problem with the most straightforward initiative, and making me understand that some implicit problems should be found and solved directly. People can obey social rules, but not all rules are doomed and cannot be tampered with.

Secondly，Petr Pavlensky's works are the most shocking and frightening to me. He makes the audience empathize with the visual pain, thus making them realize the harm of social problems to human beings.It may seem foolish, though, to hurt himself in a way that does not pay, and of course he is warmly welcomed by the local police. His protest is direct, not backward, but immediate.I can't imitate these works. But set me thinking that the current social problems and environmental problems have already is one of the biggest concerns, then people seem to just talk the talk, take effective policies and actions are not completely covered, often these seemingly insignificant problem will cause serious consequences, not happen to me a lot of people are unaware of. So WHAT I should consider is that the work of art should make people feel like they are there, and then the audience will become aware and change, and as he did, empathy is the quickest way to solve problems.

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The Guerrilla Girls are a shadowy group in the art world whose members are all female artists, and who are irregular and anonymous in their involvement. They wear gorilla masks when they are on the move, when they are disguised as guerrilla girls. They are an artistic organisation that combines current culture with their own way of making art out of protest. Rather than creating a piece of artwork, they are a multi-year action, and the Guerrilla Girls are true activists

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"If I encounter difficulties, I will avoid it. This avoidance is to discredit everything in my past, so I decided to give myself strength. After all, there is nothing terrible about it. Any authority stands on the opposite side of me, which makes them lose their own.  Face, the more they suppress me, the weaker they are."

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He said, "Every piece of my work is based on my personal experience, knowledge and understanding. I don't know how anyone reacts to this story. But your own story is the only goal of this exhibition." No matter what people do  Going to Ai Weiwei’s goal, going to Ai Weiwei’s action always hopes to see the world his participation and his thinking

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With the development of the economy and society, people's living standard is gradually improving, people pay more attention to the development of culture and art, as a contemporary female artist should improve the cultural level, improve the right to speak and initiative in art festivals, break the income imbalance, strive to improve the value of products, further improve the leadership of female artists in the art world to break the current inherent situation, to achieve the further development of female artists in contemporary society, as the audience who appreciate art or male artists should break the traditional culture, should achieve the common development of female art and male art

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Educationally: for example, 71% of women in Australia have an academic degree, but only 33% of artists in state-run galleries and museums are women, a drop of 3% from 2016
Demographics and compensation: 1.Artreview's 2018 'Power 100' list of the most influential people in the contemporary art world includes 40 per cent women, a slight improvement on the previous year
2. As female artists age, they earn less than their male counterparts
3. Nearly half of all visual artists in the US are women, and on average they earn 74 cents for every dollar earned by male artists                                                                                               Museum galleries: 1. In a 2018 study of 820,000 exhibitions in the public and commercial sectors, only a third featured female artists
2. only 11 percent of all acquisitions and 14 percent of exhibitions in 26 prominent American museums over the past decade were by women artists
3. 10 per cent of the 305 galleries represented in the Artsy database are represented by artists who are not single women, while only 8 per cent represent more women than men and nearly half represent 25 per cent or less of women       Art market: 1. The most expensive work by a female artist sold at auction was Georgia O'Keeffe's Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1, 1932 which sold for $44.4 million in 2014, more than $400 million less than the auction record for a male artist
2. 47.6 per cent discount for female artworks
3. Between 2008 and the first half of 2019, over $1996 billion was spent on art auctions, of which women made up just $4 billion, or about er per cent of the work Leadership: 1. Three of the world's most visited museums have never had a female director
2. women make up the majority of professional art museum staff and, despite progress, they are still under-represented in leadership positions

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They are an anonymous feminist group dedicated to fighting sexism and racism in the arts, founded in 1985 in New York City with the mission of bringing gender and racist inequality to the attention of the larger arts community.In 1985, posters began appearing on the streets of New York, highlighting the lack of art by women in public galleries. These posters were the work of a group of anonymous feminist artists, art historians and curators who called themselves the 'Guerrilla Girls'. They are still at work today, and ironically some of their protest art is displayed by the very institutions they are protesting against.

The Guerrilla Girls point out that women in art galleries are often nude, painted by men and viewed by other men, rather than women artists painting what they see. They use research, statistics and humour to make the larger point that only a small percentage of artwork on display in a wide range of public and private galleries is created by women and people of colour. As they put it
The history of art is really the history of power.

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Is it fair for women to be in art exhibitions?

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Is it fair for women to be in art exhibitions?

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According to the National Museum of Women in the Arts, 51 per cent of visual artists today are women. But when it comes to exhibitions and gallery representation, the numbers tell a less optimistic story. In London, for example, 78 per cent of the galleries represent more men than women, while only 5 per cent represent an equal number of male and female artists.

And beyond the statistics, women artists and curators face unique challenges, from the subjects they bring to light to the work they choose to present. As Tate Modern director Frances Morris has said, women have been discriminated against for centuries, and major institutions have typically failed to support the careers of women artists working on the margins https://www.tate.org.uk/art/tate-exchange/women-in-art

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Hear how women artists, curators, and Tate Exchange Associates are making their voices heard in the art world.

Are women represented fairly in the arts?

I don't feel there's enough female voices in the arts. There's a huge gap that can be filled.

According to the National Museum of Women in the Arts, 51 per cent of visual artists today are women. But when it comes to exhibitions and gallery representation, the numbers tell a less optimistic story. In London, for example, 78 per cent of the galleries represent more men than women, while only 5 per cent represent an equal number of male and female artists.

And beyond the statistics, women artists and curators face unique challenges, from the subjects they bring to light to the work they choose to present. As Tate Modern director Frances Morris has said, women have been discriminated against for centuries, and major institutions have typically failed to support the careers of women artists working on the margins. The number of women in the Tate collection is growing, and half the rooms in the Natale Bell Building are currently devoted to a sole female artist, but work remains to be done.

So what can we do to more fairly represent women in the arts? Should we strive for an equal split of men and women artists? Do we rewrite the history books? Or is some other way? Tell us what you think.

What's next for women artists, curators, and practitioners?

My advice to women in the arts today is that it is a changed world. But it really is still a case of pushing and pushing and making opportunities and never being complacent.

Frances Morris, Director of Tate Modern

At 1 February 2017, 27 per cent of living contemporary artists in the Tate Collection are women. The gap has narrowed in more recent years and focused efforts are being made to collect work by women artists. But this is only a start. The next step is to bring more and more diverse voices into the gallery, to seek out women doing challenging and innovative work and those who were neglected by history, and to work torwards greater representation of diverse, non-European women in collections and galleries, at Tate and beyond.

As artist and professor Joan Semmel put it: '...if there are no great celebrated women artists, that's because the powers that be have not been celebrating them, but not because they are not there.' This Women's History Month, celebrate women in art with the #5WomenArtists campaign. Can you name five women artists? Join the conversation on social media, and do your part in bringing the stories of women artists to light.

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What does it mean to be a woman in art? - Talking Point | Tate

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Hear how women artists, curators, and Tate Exchange Associates are making their voices heard in the art world. According to the National Museum of Women in the Arts, 51 per cent of visual artists today are women. But when it comes to exhibitions and gallery representation, the numbers tell a less optimistic story.

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Public art has different meanings in different places. It can be used as a unique scenery for tourists in a specific place, or in a community of people’s public activities. It is its different characteristics and different places have different meanings to people.  , This is the special meaning expressed by the public

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What message is behind the artwork?
Answer:Behind the artwork is the fight against racism and sexism
What social or political is being conveyed?
Answer:The social feminist issues and sexism conveyed
Why you think this particular place has been chosen?
Answer:Choosing the wall to more visually display their statements and express their goals to encourage other women artists and artists of colour to join them and make a real difference to art institutions and the art business
How and why do you think this artwork is trying do empower a particular community?
Answer:Empowering more women to assert their rights, changing international perceptions of sexism and racism in the arts and raising awareness of women's rights in general

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What do you see?
Answer:In this picture I see the lettering on the wall and the more attractive colours of red and black, yellow, green and pink
Where do you think the art is?
Answer:I think this should be on a wall in the street as it draws more attention to the point above
What style of art do you see?
Answer:This is a graffiti-style artwork to bring attention to feminism

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What message is behind the artwork?
Answer:Behind the artwork is the fact that it is not the criminal but the innocent people who are harmed by the law
What social or political is being conveyed?
Answer:The political problems of the local government are conveyed, as the barbed wire fence was invented to protect livestock and now it protects people, which is no doubt an irony for the government of the authorities and highlights the livelihood issues more clearly and visually
Why do you think this particular place has been chosen?
Answer:Streets were chosen because they have high footfall and allow more people to understand what the problem is
How and why do you think this artwork is trying to empower a particular community?
Answer:This work of art is a protest against the injustice of the government's laws through the performance of extremes and gives people more legal rights to defend their interests

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What do you see?
Answer：In this picture I see a man completely naked surrounded by barbed wire, huddled in the road,The colours are most visible in the colour of the skin and the colour of the barbed wire.                              Where do you think the art is?
Answer:I think it was lying on the street because the street was very crowded
What style of art do you see?
Answer:Giving people and governments a special visual effect through their own scarring

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What message is behind the artwork?
Answer:Behind the artworks are the wearers of the life jackets, that is, the immigrants in general
What social or political is being conveyed?
Answer：It's a social issue，Communicated the livelihood issues of the local government and failed to address refugee issues in a timely manner
Why do you think this particular place has been chosen?
Answer:Because this building is a famous building in the area, it allows the authorities and the public to recognize the problem in a timely manner, to react more visually to the problem and to break away from the traditional way of thinking and art.
How and why do you think this artwork is trying to empower a particular community?
Answer:Giving people more rights to personal freedom

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What do you see?
Answer:From this picture I saw Ai Weiwei and his team, and the building wrapped in a life jacket. The color is mainly the orange of the life jacket, and the rest of the color is the color of the building itself.
Where do you think the art is?
Answer:I think this building should be in a very important place, and it should be located in the city center
What style of art do you see?
Answer:I think that his work of art belongs to the accumulation of life jackets to give people a visual impact.

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The first artist is AI Weiwei one of the most famous figures in contemporary art associated with political activism, his most memorable work is the Perspective Studies series where he photographed his middle finger affixed to various monuments around the world including Tiananmen, an installation commemorating his campaign for justice for the 2008 Sichuan earthquake
The second artist is Pyotr Pavlensky, often referred to as a 'living pain' artist, who often takes extreme forms of performance art as his political language. wrapping himself naked in barbed wire as a comment on a series of laws that suppress civil activism and intimidate people
The third artist is Guerrilla Girls-The Feminist Masked Avengers, who express their ideals and views on various social topics through stickers, posters, billboards, conversations and debates that point out the hypocrisy of artistic traditions and institutions and their pervasive sexism and racial racism. combining humorous images, outrageous visuals and statistics.
I have learnt from these examples that radical art, as a new way of reacting to and critiquing society, should be more visually reflective of social, economic and societal issues, just as 'Taking Protest Art to Extremes' (Pavlensky, 2008) uses its artworks to speak and act for a wider audience, just as Weiwei is not afraid of the difficulties that lie ahead and still sticks to his ideals, giving a voice to more people.

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Activism meaning: the doctrine or practice of vigorous action or engagement as a means of achieving political or other goals, sometimes through demonstrations, protests, etc.
Also a theory that the nature of reality is surviving activity, especially mental activity or process.
It is also a theory that the relationship between the mind and the object of perception depends on the activity of the mind
I see radicalism as people becoming dissatisfied with some aspect of the current society that is not being addressed by the government, so people take some action to change the current situation, giving some special meaning to the activity
Radical art is about empowering individuals and communities, often located in the public arena, where the artist works closely with the community to produce art and to address political or social issues
I see activist art as a new way for artists and people to react to and address social issues, presenting them in a more visual and artistically meaningful way, giving them a sense of immediacy