Ai Wei Wei

Ai Wei Wei is a chinese artist and political activist which active in architecture, curating, photography, film, and social and cultural criticism. He is an artist who don't like China government's peoples. His father was a poet which present at this declaration of the Chinese state. Besides, he is also a vocal critic which against the China government and communist regime. He is the one of the designer design the Beijing National Stadium for the 2008 Summer Olympics, also known as the "Bird's Nest".Ai Wei Wei said that he love design so that he participated in the designing of the Bird's Nest in the first place. He also served as design consultation to Swiss architect.

The caption（草泥马挡中央, "grass mud horse covering the middle") to Ai's self-portrait sounds almost the same in Chinese as 肏你妈党中央, "Fuck your mother, the Communist party central comittee"


From this artwork of Ai Wei Wei, I feel that he is a brave man. He didn't feel shy and shamed. He just naked and snap a self-portrait of himself to produce an artwork. 




Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/ai-weiwei-art-2011-6#ixzz1W03cZwTI


Ai Wei Wei's works:

Forever

Map

Table

Ai Weiwei's art thrives in London

Ai Weiwei's art exhibit opens in London while he remains in custody in China.

CNN's Atika Shubert reports.

Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads, 

located in the Pulitzer Fountain in front of the Plaza Hotel through July 15.

The fountain-clock featured the animals of the Chinese zodiac,each spouting water at two-hour intervals. During the Second Opium War the fountain-clock was destroyed and five of the animal heads were lost to time. Weiwei's twelve heads are cast bronze,each weighing about 800 pounds,and are set on bronze bases. The artist said that his work is always dealing with real or fake,authenticity and value and how value relates to current political and social understandings and misunderstandings, however,because Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads is composed of animal heads,it's a work that everyone can understand,including children and people who are not in the art world.

Informational poster, in case you forget your sign. Also, notice the Free Weiwei written on the bottom.

Ai Wei Wei's installation at the Tate

The latest installation at the Turbine Hall at the Tate Gallery is in place.One hundred million hand-painted porcelain seeds by the Chinese artist Ai Wei Wei.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11517693

References:

~ Ai Weiwei. Retrieved June 24, 2011, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ai_Weiwei.

Ideas for New Blog

Define History of Art and Design:
~  "Advancing to future state"
~  History is the memory of the past, representational technology.

1)What do you want from this course?
  ~  learn and discovery from previous artist's artwork.

2)What do you want to be doing in 5 years?
  ~  success in my working life.

3)Is history of art and design necessary do you think for your larger goals?
  ~  I think sometimes it will be necessary, it is because we can learn from the     previous artist's mistakes or their weak point and make a something difference compare with previous artwork.

4)Why I design my blog like this?
  ~  I put the design of calligraphy of Chinese words with a bit yellowish and brownish colours as my background to show it looks in old style. Besides, I use red colour in the words of blog title which set off the Chinese culture.