Secondary Research 5-Feminist Artist in China

1.He Weina

Most of the characters in He Weina’s works are based on herself. She not only draws and writes about herself, but also records the current status of women in the form of ink and wash. He Weina uses a surreal way to express the situation of women in bathrooms, bedrooms, boudoirs, and dreams.She draws women’s confusion about how to play multiple social roles in a complex and changeable social environment from a female perspective, as well as their escape from social reality, or fear, timidity, and female characteristics.

Bride in bubbles

All kinds of blood-red bubbles appearing out of thin air, mixed with female heads smaller than the bubbles, this is a kind of uneasy, ominous and even fearful feeling about the living environment.

2.Hu Xiaoyuan

萱花蛱蝶
夫荣妻贵

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She uses her own hair as the thread, outlining the lines. Each piece is a different size, and one piece in each pair is embroidered with parts of her body (fingers, lips, hair, breasts, etc.), and the other embroidered graphics that correspond to it may be interesting to you. They are like flowers, birds, fish, etc., but for Chinese people, they have other meanings: for example, a pair of mandarin ducks, a pair of stalk lotuses, and two fish are all about Tradition, love, marriage, commitment and affection. Chinese people can understand the special meaning in these graphics.The images and interests of her works follow the traces of her personal thoughts, expressing the tension between the inner world and the outer world with the sensitive tentacles of women.

3.Song Kun

Song Kun’s works have always contained an important concept: “stream-of-consciousness narration” and “subliminal synaesthesia”, which are important features of her creation and are also the inheritance of Chinese oriental aesthetics. She never tried to provide any fixed symbols or concepts, but put forward an independent sample of China at this stage for the proposition “How to feel the experience, cognition and rich emotions endowed by life”. “Her firmness and self-confidence enable her paintings to borrow languages ​​from music, sound, video and other aspects, so that paintings gain a special narrative energy.”

It regards art as an endoscope of self-life experience, depicting different emotional experiences and emotional changes in daily life with the unique slenderness and sensitivity of women, such as “fear”, “desire”, “care”, etc. “, “Growth”, “Happiness” and “Confusion”, etc., in the seemingly simple pictures, there is also a unique immaturity and aura, sometimes revealing sharpness. Some people once commented that Song Kun’s art is A “juicy individualism”.

http://songkun.org/zh/

4.Chen Qingqing

Her installation art began to enter the theme of death boundary and soul reincarnation from the feminist language critical consciousness. Through the background of this supernatural theme, she began to philosophically create a personal language form.

From this point of view, Chen Qingqing completed the transcendence of a woman’s lifetime consciousness, and thus entered into the re-weaving of experience from the perspective of gnosis where life and death are like dramas. This is the last kind of transcendence that people can do, that is, symbolic transcendence.

5.Chen Qiulin

Chen Qiulin combines the reality of the environment with the non-reality of love myths in a way of combining behavior and images. While paying attention to serious environmental issues, there is no shortage of ridicule and confusion, expressing women’s psychological experience in this regard

6.Xu Xiaoyan

Xu Xiaoyan has been an obedient and good girl since she was a child, following the example of “Mao Xuan”. In college, under the influence of various western thoughts, she experienced the wild period of youthful restlessness. She even shaved her head, drank a big bowl of wine, and painted paintings with extremely exaggerated, deformed and strong colors. From performance to art, a wild and unruly rebellious spirit, when she married Mengguang and had children, from the experience of a girl into a woman, her simple nature returned to her reality and spiritual world. What’s more, she has a peaceful and indifferent temperament as a woman, and she has returned to reality greatly, giving a woman’s love and paying attention to the trivial things around her. The good thing is that she is not like many female painters whose artistic talents are buried in endless trivial matters. In the midst of trivial matters, nothing is achieved, and it becomes a “ruin”. She finds the meaning of painting and the value of life from trivial and inconspicuous things.

Her works permeate the simple and profound survival secrets of man and the earth as a whole, as well as a woman’s innate experience and dedication, as well as her perception of life and life. Elevate the suffering of the earth to a spiritual level. It also presents the carrying, nurturing, and living life forms of the earth.

7.Cao Fei

Cao Fei’s works directly discuss issues related to consumption and power relations, and add an ambiguous meaning of gender perspective, which has a strong realistic pertinence.

Her artistic practice is clearly influenced by the dramatic transformations that have taken place in China over the past 30 years. Resonates at an international level on themes involving a globalized society and workforce.

Her artistic language is between reality and fantasy. It transforms elements of pop and gaming culture such as film, animation, cosplay, music (Cantonese pop and hip hop) and social media into humorous and captivating productions that reflect our changing contemporary environment.

http://www.caofei.com/works.aspx?wtid=3

Generally speaking, although Chinese contemporary female art is influenced by Western feminist thoughts, Chinese female art has a different environment and cultural background. The works of Chinese female artists are obviously different from those of Western female artists in some aspects. s difference. Chinese women’s art works are more subtle and depressive. The pain of suffering, being destroyed and being torn apart in the works is more obvious, and the sadness and helplessness are more than the anger. From the side, it also reflects the plight of Chinese women and feminism still has a hard way to go.

Ref:

1.http://www.99ys.com/home/2010/07/19/14/123496.html

2.https://www.artda.cn/view.php?tid=8730&cid=63

3.http://www.art-ba-ba.com/main/main.art?threadId=193974&forumId=8

4.https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/68564620

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