In Week 3 Visual Culture Course, Karen mentions how we use symbolic art to express new meanings. In life, we often quickly discern its meaning through simple symbols. For example, traffic signs, digital symbols, and Emoji in the social APP. Using symbolic expression has become a part of our life.
The word symbol reminds me of a Chinese artist —— Bing Xu, who I learned when I was 15 years old. At the Central Academy of Fine Arts every student knows him and adored him. In the late 1980s, in the < Book from the Sky > series of his famous works,he personally designed thousands of "new Chinese characters" (creating his own characters, also fake Chinese characters). At the same time, he used the traditional Chinese craft of movable type printing by carving it. Intensive and shocking words attract people to read, but we do not know a word. No matter how high the level of academic background in this work of art we are unified at same level.
Another opposite work, < Book from the Ground > is a book created by the artist Bing Xu that anyone speaking whatever language can understand. It does not have any traditional words, it is not a picture book, nor a cartoon. It is a book written by symbols that records the life of modern-city white-collar workers 24 hours a day. In fact, we can also read a sentence and a book through the symbols. Therefore, symbols are important to us.
All of the above photo sources:
Bing Xu personal website. Bing Xu artwork. [online] Retrieved from http://www.xubing.com [Accessed 29 March 2022].
Artist Banksy similarly uses symbols and images to express the language of art. He is a very well-known street graffiti artist in London. Over a decade, Banksy has created a lot of works based on real life and anti-war content, and his style is full of black humor.
Anny, S. (2021). Was Banksy’s infamous shredded painting really created in 2006? [online] Retrieved from: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2021/10/13/was-banksys-infamous-shredded-painting-really-created-in-2006/ [Accessed 29 March 2022].
Next I want to say some things about how I learned about Banksy and why I chose this work. In fact, I am very grateful to have a collection of Lego, Bearbrick and others (which I also mentioned in the Blog of FC318). My friends often share with me the countless Bearbrick s in his collection. This made me also interested in it and focused on some of the buyers selling it. Bearbrick's joint work with Banksy's Flying Balloons Girl, Flower Bomber is very popular among young people.
Reference: http://xhslink.com/r89qBg/
British graffiti artist Banksy has shocked everyone by self-destructing his own < Girl with Balloon > painting. In 2018, after trading at a Sotheby's Art auction for £1,042,000, Banksy himself manipulated a paper shredder installed in a frame to turn the painting into scraps of paper. Such crazy and dramatic behavior is not only street art but also combines performance art. From < Girl with Balloon > original name to < Love is in the Bin >, this gives people unlimited space for reverie. When the painting was created that year, the Banksy built a shredder in the frame, breaking it if it was sold at auction. Banksy also includes Picasso's famous quote: " Destruction is also an idea." Perhaps this is a performance art presented in the form of a prank.
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