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Idea development 3 - Ai Wei Wei 

FINAL POSTER ASSESMENT ONE

The final product is what I believe contemporary rebellion in art looks like. It embodies the idea that you must go against what makes you feel rigid and present your art and yourself as an artist outside those boundaries that constrain you. I looked at how far art had come through history and found that art has changed from perfection and precision to freedom and expression. Earlier in my creative process, I was over thinking the piece and eventually ended up calculating it. So with my final I did the exact opposite.

Assignment 1: Question 2 

Can creative acts be rebellious when rebellion has become canonised in art, design and media histories? What would a contemporary creative rebellion look like?

I started off this assignment by choosing question five but soon decided on going with this question instead because it is the one i resonated with the most. I began to question, What did Rebellion look like throughout history. with research and consultation with other artistic and non artistic minded people, i came to the form the idea that rebellion in art through out  was at times literally represented through the paintings of what revolutionary ward looked like. Classical paintings of men clad in uniform and swords collectively marching onward to battle. The representation of rebellious art broke away from the idea of perfection and conforming and instead explored styles like cubism and schools of art like surrealism.Art didn’t have to be perfect.

I then came to sculpt hat i believe a contemporary rebellion could look like in this day and age. Looking at the news recently, i noticed a few articles that stood out. A couple were written on Malia Obama, Barrack Obama’s eldest daughter who attended and danced at a music festival with her friends instead of A dinner at the white house that she had been ‘expected’ to attend.  The last few articles where on the leaked nude Photos of Melania Trump whose husband Donald Trump is currently running for presidency to replace Barrack Obama as the president of the United States. 

Studying this strange mix of media reporting and information on politics, the white house, Gender roles and Race in this 21st Century World led me to question. Could rebellion necessarily be represented in art or Do we live Rebellion? Has that become our way of life as the ‘Carefree Black Girl’, The ‘Sexually Empowered White female’ and many other roles we see on a daily basis that people have been almost forced to live as a simple result of how we society views us and how we should live our lives.

Assessment 1 in class: Question 5.  

‘Contemporary art and design often looks at the idea of constructed binaries, such as man/woman, soft/hard, straight/gay, dirty/clean, organic/synthetic. Considering the history of these ‘pairs’, how can art and design interrogate these binaries and offers new insights?’

Looking at the concept of constructed binaries, we wanted to challenge the very idea of having binaries on their own but how we could make the materials  we had act as binaries.

We let the materials guide our sculpture on where it would go by converging and diverging different materials and ideas. n the end we came up with a piece that showed a binary as a whole with the monochrome, confined art space taped and boxed in on the table whilst the boat was suspended in the air with more colorful aspects.

The half of the piece on the table had aspects that contrasted in terms of soft and sharp. saftey pins making a piece that actually wasnt safe.