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Ai Weiwei:Artwork Analysis
Artistic Influences: Chinese Calligraphy and Scroll Painting
Mid-Autumn, Wang Xianzhi Jin Dynasty (265-420CE)
Artistic Influences: Chinese Ceramics
Han Dynasty (206 BCE-220 CE)
Ceramics
Artistic Influences: Pop Art
Ai Weiwei in 1988 in front of Andy Warhol’s Self-Portrait (1966) at the Museum of Modern Art, New York
Brillo Box (1964) by Andy Warhol
Mao Tse Tung (1972) by Andy Warhol
Artistic Influences: Conceptual Art"It became like a symbolic thing, to be‘an artist.’ After Duchamp,
I realized that being an artist is more about a lifestyle and attitude than producing some product."
-Ai Weiwei
Fountain (1917)Marcel Duchamp
Artistic Influences: Installation Art
Ai is influenced by conceptual installation art such as this work by Cuban-American artist Félix González-Torres
Untitled (Placebo) (1991),Félix González-Torres
Artistic Influences: Art as ActivismAi is strongly invested in the notion of art as a means of actively creating social change. Another artist whose work functions to create social change is Krzysztof Wodiczko.
Krzysztof Wodiczko’s Homeless Vehicle Project (1987-89), New York
Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn (1995)
Video-Ai Weiwei-Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn
Coca-Cola Vase (1994)
Colored Vases (2006)
Remembering (2009)
Earthquake in Sichuan (2008-2010)
Untitled, 2011
Sunflower Seeds (2010)
The Black Cover Book, 1994
The White Cover Book, 1995
The Grey Cover Book, 1997
Weiwei-isms (2012)Quotations from Ai Weiwei
“Everything is art, everything is politics.” –Ai Weiwei
Reference to Mao’s Little Red Book
“In the world today all culture, all literature and art belong to definite classes and are geared to definite political lines. There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics.”-Mao Zedong