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China Moment: Jade Emperor - Corruption and Mistressesby Haichuan Huang | |
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My understanding of art is a basic platform for the audience to ponder and reflect upon and also a start point for art being developed as a record of people’s life. Contemporary artists shall consider presenting the audience not only a simple snapshot of a picture of the life, but also entailing their own feelings and interpretations of the image. In our current fast-paced society today, art should be of high appreciative values and visual impacts so that it can draw audience’s attention and let them start thinking about the meaning of this work. Due to living in different countries, I became interested in politics and philosophy and developed personal understanding of social and cultural phenomena, which encouraged improvements on my artistic style. Since 2010, I’ve paid great attention to different interpretations of Western media on China’s social conditions. Because of different culture backgrounds and social systems, the realities are usually different from media reports regardless it is Chinese media or Western media. The media generally attempt to report those only conforming to their own ideologies and it is impossible for them to present facts completely and objectively. Based on the above two facts, I have started establishing my own artistic style and creating a range of art works portraying the Chinese political environment usually under influence of the Chinese media. For China’s cultural renaissance, I selected traditional Chinese New Year paintings as a basis and used creative elements of the Chinese mythological figures to reflect current social and political phenomena. In the near future, I will continue working on a series of these paintings and artistic works to reveal social phenomena based on these kinds of ideas. EDUCATION: 2010 - 2013 BA (Hons) Fine Art Chelsea College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London 2008 - 2009 Courses in Design and Illustration London College of Communication, University of the Arts London 2005 - 2006 Foundation in Visual Communication and Filmmaking China Central Academy of Fine Arts AWARDS AND EXHIBITIONS: 2013.06 Chelsea College of Arts & Design Degree Show London 2013.02 “Re-growing” - The First Biennale of Chinese Artists in UK London 2013.01 “Shen” Exhibition London 2011 Second Prize Centennial Xinhai Calligraphy and Painting Exhibition in UK |