·the meaning of the word activism.

 

The word comes from "Active". means the policy or action of using vigorous campaigning to bring about political or social change.Activism consists of efforts to promote, impede, direct, or intervene in social, political, economic, legal, or environmental reform with the desire to make changes in society toward a perceived greater good. 
·Write a definition of activism in your own words (do not copy directly from a dictionary) that covers all possible meanings.

 

My definition: Someone has a very strong idea and desire to change or finish something. Act regardless of obstacles, form or participate in organizations in order to make this idea a reality. Activist is the leader in the organization and expresses their own opinions and speeches, which are usually radical and critical. Their purpose is usually to change the current situation and cause change. This kind of action may be done by one person or by a group. The definition of activism is broad, including political activism, artistic activism and so on.

·Create examples to illustrate these meanings.

In the New Culture Movement, Chinese scholars held high the two flags of democracy and science in order to change the Chinese people's ignorance and feudal superstition. However, many of them had a tendency of absolute denial and absolute affirmation of Chinese and Western culture. I think it's called activism.

 

·Study the meaning of art activism.

 

· In my opinion, the study of artistic behaviorism has two meanings: first, art form is the root of aesthetic meaning; Second, abstract forms are pure art forms. Its purpose is to study the internal structure and external appearance of works of art. The change of art works is the change of form, and art history is the history of form change. The value of a work of art lies in its form.

 

Write a definition of artistic activism in your own words (not straight from the dictionary) that covers all possible meanings.

 

I think art formalism usually refers to anarchism and other artistic reflections that express the autonomy of art

And the independence of artistic structure, also expresses the essence of art activism is abstract

 

Create an example to illustrate these implications.

 

For example, post-impressionism takes formalist art to the extreme, almost regardless of any subject matter and content. In terms of artistic expression, post-impressionism lays more emphasis on the relationship of composition, believing that artistic images should be different from the objects in life, and that the subjective feelings of the author should be used to transform the objective objects and show the "subjectively objective". They focus on expressing the concreteness, stability and internal structure of matter.

 

 

#MeToo) is a tag widely circulated on social media after the sexual harassment incident of Harvey Enstein in October 2017 for personal sexual assault and sexual harassment.  The social sports activity Tara Burke began this scene in the previous years of use, and was then widely announced by Mary Aisha Milano. Milan publicly promised to encourage women to be assaulted on Twitter Zilai Such users use hashtags and are openly unhappy, including many frequently used topics.

 

2、Ai Weiwei

Without going into the politics behind Syrian conflict (which has lasted for almost six years now), we can only shake our heads in disbelief as we see just how many people’s lives have been lost and how many destroyed. Countless faceless and nameless men, women, and children, barely escaping from becoming a collateral damage in the war, tried finding a safe place in Europe. Ai Weiwei has recognized the gravity of the situation and has been involved in the European refugee crisis for many months now. He is constantly criticizing the European and the global response to the crisis. As he recently told The Guardian: “These people have nothing to do with Europe; they are like people from outer space, but they have to come. They have been pushed out and they are being totally neglected by Europe. They are sleeping in the mud and rain and it is only volunteers giving them food or clothes.”[3] The artist has described the EU-Turkey deal as illegal and immoral, shameful, underlining the fact it’s not a solution, but a source for further problems (EU-Turkey agreement allow the Greek and EU FRONTEX border teams to stop the influx of refugees into Greece, forcing them back to Turkey, while the European countries would accept refugees from Turkey based on quota system agreed among the EU member states. Turkey received billions of Euros as aid). He visited refugee camp Idomeni in Northern Greece, where thousands of people are trapped after the so-called Balkan Route was closed. Ai pulled his works out of Denmark when the Danish parliament passed the law allowing the authorities to confiscate valuables and cash from migrants in order to cover the cost of their care. He set up a studio on the Greek island of Lesvos (also known as Lesbos), stating: “This is a very historical moment from any perspective. As an artist I want to be more involved, I want to create artworks in relation to the crisis and also create some kind of consciousness about the situation.”

 

3、Yoko Ono

Yoko Ono has been, without a doubt, one of the most misunderstood artists in the past 60 years. It is her massive fame, association with the Beatles, and heal-the-world rhetoric that have obscured her groundbreaking contributions to the world of art of the 1960s and beyond. Her wide-ranging artistic expression encompasses film, sculpture, text, performance, music and artwork. Although eclectic in nature, her work has been often greeted with incomprehension, mockery and even rage. Her work has always been an indivisible element of her activism and life-long mission of communicating with the world at large. Despite the often hostile response, Ono has won the Lifetime Achievement Award in the Observer Ethical Awards for her activism lasting over half a century. Her combined work has been exhibited in a unique show at The Museum of Modern Art, entitled Yoko Ono: One Woman Show, 1960-1970, the exhibition featured Ono’s artistic practices and her involvement in the Feminist movement. As she explained, art represents a way of showing people how you can think, and even though some people think of it as a beautiful wallpaper that you can sell, Yoko Ono rather perceives it as a direct connection with activism. Her style often included “dematerialization of the art object,” which is a phrase that would only come to use when the critic Lucy Lippard employed it to talk about the practice of turning away from objects and towards ideas. So, even before this phrasing, Ono created artworks that could exist in a variety of idea-oriented context. From sumi-ink paintings on unstretched canvas, where one is burned, another placed on the ground and another drips with water, to different artworks that could exist as mere instructions, to be executed once, multiple times, or even never.

2If you want to express the connotation of your picture, you need to have enough understanding of traditional culture, and even need to have some research on philosophy

3Similarly, I am concerned about national events, such as the Olympic Games, and the disaster in Henan

4I am interested in cartoon ananimation and intend to engage in related work in the future, so i have been studying animation courses and observing the trend of domestic animation market

5I care about my friends and family, and i wish them healthy and lucky

Two
1 I can't sleep when I'm sleeping.

2I'm not inspired to paint.

3I can't eat what I want to eat.

4I can't cook.

5There's no tissue in the bathroom.

Three
1 Keep myself health 

2Have a good time every day

3Keep doing what I love .such as bodybuilding and singing

4Lifelong learning

5Family harmony

Four
1 I think the most meaningful art and not simply want to show a good form, a lot of meaningful art form of pictures and not only good-looking, and it also can reflect the social side of all sorts of problems, so I will care about this the background behind the art works and whether it showed it to express their thoughts and whether the exhibition reflects the social problems.

2I care about whether I can get into a good university and get good grades

3I care about my interpersonal relationship, because I think making good friends in the society is very important and can help me

4For example, there were a lot of national events recently, such as the flood in Zhengzhou. At that time, I also paid close attention to and felt nervous for my country. In the recent Olympic Games, EVERY time my country won a gold medal, I would feel honored and proud for my country
Five 
1 I am more worried about my academic performance.

2  I am more concerned about my quality of life.

3  I am more worried about the impact of the epidemic in the China.

4  In the busy schoolwork, I am more concerned about my health problems  caused by stress.

5  I am more concerned about the employment issues of my major.

 

2Will the conference be delayed due to the epidemic?

3Will my trip be ruined by the heavy rain?

4When will my mother give me pocket money?

5Will I be able to get my driver's license

Nine 
1. Why is my name like this
2. How can I improve my drawing
3. How to make myself better
4. Will I be doing what I love
5. How to let myself pass sad time

Ten
 1 Does an artist ever think before he finishes a world-famous painting that it will be worth a lot later on？

2 Dream of a person will be that person is thinking of me？

3 Is art an art that people don't understand？

4 Can two people in the world smell the same？

5 Why is human flesh sour？

I'm not a big fan of gift horses, because I kind of don't understand the depth of the sculpture, and I don't understand the meaning behind it.

Radical art is a strong dissatisfaction with the organization and operation of the existing society, a radical negation of the existing social system, and an urgent desire to make radical, drastic and immediate changes to the society.

From carrier to self-expression, from external form to internal implication, from self-expression to release of creativity, public artworks all highlight the vitality of materials as an art design language. It is an important part of radicalism. Urban public artworks in the new era need new language and new forms to have a dialogue with The Times, the environment and the public in different backgrounds. On the other hand, artists and designers know materials, understand their properties and feel the beauty of materials. On the premise of exploring the internal laws of materials, they can realize the correct choice and rational use of materials, foster strengths and avoid weaknesses, and achieve the unity of content and form of materials and public art works, as well as the harmony between public art works and environment.

I think the Fourth Plinth is a must-see for radicalism. Located in Trafalgar Square in London, it is a representative platform for the display of contemporary public art. The emergence of this platform shows the symbiotic relationship and complex connection between contemporary art and public art. The research on the generation mechanism, the form of works, the way of public participation and other issues around this platform includes both the ontological issues of public art and the general issues of social participation of contemporary art. The practice of public art is undoubtedly of theoretical value and practical significance.

I think she wants to express the social significance and power of "useful art". We should make works of art that are beneficial to society and have deep meanings behind them.

I agree with Ai Weiwei's definition of art, everything needs to be based on morality, and any radical work is to attack the darkness of society instead of destroying it and harming the public interest

An artist is an artistic worker who has high aesthetic ability and skilled creative skills and is engaged in artistic creation and has certain achievements. People who create works of art usually refer to those who have high achievements in such artistic fields as writing, painting, photography, performance, sculpture, music, calligraphy and dance, so as to have a certain degree of aesthetics. ; Not only in the field of art, film and television in the field of artistic creation as their professional career, but also including in their own career engaged in artistic creation. He is a creator of artistic works originating from nature and originating from the soul.

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I want to start with the context. Women are an oppressed and discriminated class all over the world. Women generally earn less and work in less stable jobs than men. And women artists are also fighting to defend their rights.

Then I was inspired by studying the work of two great feminist artists, so I decided to focus on feminism and speak up for women's rights. One is Croatian photographer and performer Sanja Iveković and the other is art witch VALIE EXPORT, whose name is always capitalized. I was influenced by Emma Watson's "He For She" speech at the UN, which made me pay more attention to the study of feminism. This is Emma speaking at the United Nations

On top of that, I think I'll paint my feminist work on the manhole cover at school. When it comes to the art of manhole covers, most people who know this will immediately think of one country -- Japan. When the Japanese walk down the street, they only need to look at the manhole cover to know where they are. Manhole covers are everywhere, which is more feminist propaganda. South Korea also has films to highlight feminism, and the two artists in the study directly linked their work to the progress of women's empowerment. They are changing the way society views women.

Next is my own design. The graffiti works can make people deeply feel the importance of protecting and respecting women, which is also more artistic. I think the Open Day of the school is an important condition to promote my propaganda of feminism, and I hope everyone can really value and respect women. I have a name for these two works, called Beauty, which is a combination of modern and traditional.

As for the influence of audience, I think I will use the way that we used to print coins with pencil and paper when we were children and let people color in, so as to give my own ideas to the works and the way that the viewers can also make rubbings of their favorite works to interact with my works

Finally, visitors can take away their favorite works and others to promote feminism, so that feminism can be deeply rooted in the hearts of people, spread more widely, and let people join in the art making, which is impressive

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Women are an oppressed and discriminated class everywhere in the world. Women generally earn less and work in less stable jobs than men. As economic activity stops during the epidemic, the ability of women working in the informal sector to earn a living decline sharply. In addition to the loss of income and paid work, many women are increasing their unpaid care and domestic work, and women around the world are still unable to achieve gender equality in the face of current problems. Feminism is a social movement that transcends class and race, and women artists are also fighting to defend their rights.

One is a great Croatian photographer and performer, Sanja Iveković. Known for addressing issues such as female identity and political conflict, (Marcoci, R., & Eagleton, T. 2011). her work continues to inspire many young artists and another avant-garde Austrian artist, Valie Export. She is known for her provocative feminist public performances. Her work also includes video, video animation, photography and contemporary art publications.

Sanja Iveković 's work reveals the pressure women feel to conform to existing ideas of unique beauty and self-image. Sanja Ivekovic's "Make Up Make Down" shows the artist's upper body on a television screen. A still camera focuses on the woman's hand; They waved their carmine lipstick enthusiastically up and down. Then she runs her finger slowly across the tip of the eyeliner, gently holding a tube of mascara. Make up will focus the audience's attention on daily and private activities and subvert the image of women in the media by hiding facial images. It also has a private message for women, and makes people focus on women, rather than on a single woman. Valie Export uses a pseudonym, refusing to use the names of her father and ex-husband, to express her contribution to feminism. Mueller and Rosita also work in Valie Export。Fragments of the Imagination says that Valie Export launched her artistic career in the 1950s and 1960s, and she was part of the avant-garde movement of the century, the continuation and redefinition of the movement after World War II. （Mueller, Roswitha 1994）.Her work, including films and photographs, extends the transboundary idea of Viennese feminism to include a feminist critique of the restrictions imposed on individuals based on their perceived gender. EXPORT cites a similar story: “The female body is the locus where ‘ culture ’creates a barrier to block out woman. … The body is the locus where civilization takes hold’’ (EXPORT 1995: 20). Every one of her creations is an avant-garde practice, and in the Identity Shift series, she struck a distinctly unfeminine pose that was at odds with her hair and makeup, playing with the code words traditionally used to convey gender identity.

From the start of Sanja Ivekovic's artistic career, Iveković was interested in the representation of women in society. She discusses the relationship of artistic language and meaning creation to conceptualism and performance and Tito's position of women in Yugoslavia and society as a whole（Noack, Ruth; Lewis, Mark 2013）.“In all her work since the early '70s, there are three themes that she's focused on the most: gender, identity and memory," Ms. Ivikovic said. For her, each of her works as a visual effects artist, the starting point of my research is to communicate to us the visual representation of women in daily life through mass media. Later, through her work, she reinforced the social and political commitment to the role of women in society. Her works have exerted a profound influence on the thoughts and works of later feminist artists. At the same time, like Valie Export, she has made great contributions to the social status of women and the pursuit of equality between men and women. Export added, Art can be understood as a self-defining medium, thereby adding new value to art." These values, transmitted through cultural symbols, will change reality to meet women's needs. The statement directly linked her own work to progress in women's empowerment. It also left a deep impression on women of later generations and made a remarkable contribution to feminism. 

The assumption that society's representation of women's roles reflects women's lives and implies women's beliefs and values accurately describes the behavior and changes of women's roles in order to illustrate what exists. As Export observes, "for a long time, women have been preserving and sealing their damaged identity under painful deformities" (EXPORT 1989[1980]: 73). Based on the assumption that the audience will accept all the images of women and use social experience to evaluate the appropriateness of other people's behavior in real life, a comparative analysis has been made of the roles of women in society and in real society. Through the comprehensive analysis of a series of female characters in TV.

These two feminist artists are successful because they do contribute to feminism, but it can be summed up in one sentence: achieving equality between men and women in all human beings. Some feminist theories are as strong as fire, some as calm as water, some are about fighting to the death, some are about compromise, but all of them share a basic premise: that women are the oppressed and discriminated class of the world. We also need to change the status quo and continue our feminist fight to win back women's rights.

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Export, Valie (fall–winter 1988–9) ‘The real and its Double: The Body’, Discourse 11(1) BODY // MASQUERADE: 3–27.

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