• Research the meaning of the word activism.
1.The use of diract and noticeable action to achieve a result, usually a political or social one. 
2. The use of direct and public methods to try to bring about social and political changes that you and others want.

 • Write a definition of activism in your own words (do not copy directly from a dictionary) that covers all possible meanings (add a bibliographical reference - Harvard style)
A policy of taking direct and militant action to achieve a political or social goal and express dissatisfaction with the social.

• Research the meaning of art activism.
The use of art action to achieve a result.

• Write a definition of art activism in your own words (do not copy directly from a dictionary) that covers all possible meanings (add a bibliographical reference - Harvard style)
Art activism means ues  some artistic means to express ideas and shock the public, some artists do some militant things such as designing posters, drawing pictures and other art projects in order to tell the public some important arguments, this is often an important part of activism.


Task 2
Amoako Boafo
Boafo made his stunning auction debut at Phillips in London and sold his portrait The Lemon Bathing Suit  for £675,000. This work is very stylized and expresses his bold brushwork and bright colors, in this way, his unique style became specific pattern and also attracted some institutions’ attention, many museums such as  The Guggenheim Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and Vienna’s Albertina Museum scramble to buy his art work. Boafo insisted on his creation and his most ambitious project will be born, a gallery and studio complex in his hometown Accra. As in his work called Black Diaspora series, these portraits challenge the flat, simplified nature of blackness and celebrate his fellow blacks with a quiet intimacy. He said painting was a means to avoid trouble or a beating, and his artistic core became less inspired and more driven.

Banksy
Banksy gifted his painting to a hospital in the Britain and donated the money to the hospital for the health service during the first wave of COVID-19 in the summer, and also in this summer he donated  for a hospital in Bethlehem about the proceeds from an auction of a Mediterranean Sea view. Later in the summer, Banksy 's started to notice the migrant crisis in the Mediterranean and financed the refugee rescue boat. By auctioning off his works, he donated money to hospitals for aid, also in order to help Mediterranean migrants in need. He drew a panda humorously satirizes racism, and consider that the hero who can hit racial discrimination is panda because he is black, he is white, he is Asia.

Betye Saar
In 2020, now-94-year-old artist Saar showed all of her works on display including sketchbooks and paintings, this showed the public about the flurry of first for the long-overlooked artist. Her work consistently addresses issues of race, gender, and spirituality, her work called her work called National Racism: We Was Mostly 'Bout Survival' Saar was also named the recipient of the 2020 Wolfgang Hahn Prize and her work is the subject of a documentary short, Betye Saar: Taking Care of Business, and this eight-minute film also achieved attention at this year’s Sundance and was selected as a New York Times op-doc. Saar’s ABCD Education (2001) was sold at a Sotheby’s day sale, even achieved a new auction record for the artist, selling for $81,900, in November. Her work named black girls’ window, she has already said the girl in the bottom half of the painting is me with my hands against the glass, with different astrology symbols on each hand what my life will be on one hand, and what it actually looks like on the other that's the black girl window, about life, about death.


bibliography
Artsy.2021.The Most Influential Artists of 2020. [online] Available at: <https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-influential-artists-2020> [Accessed 26 July 2021].