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Ray Beldner
"How Mao"
Sewn U.S. currency, 2002
"Mao" is one of a series of 20th century masterpieces that Beldner recreated using U.S currency. Although Beldner has not been sued, he has been threatened by artists' estates for appropriating their work, most notably, Pablo Picasso's. This particular piece is based on Andy Warhol's silkscreen.
true!!!
>>> Maoism, i heard, is also read and welcomed by the Iraqies when protecting their homeland during the American invasion ....
:)
that is why Mao's image can be used in different contexts ....
也很同意作舟的这段话：
Today, Mao is still there in the Tiananmen Square, his image, that is....but in China, where Mao was, U.S. dollars are more popular.....
A piece of art, like a poem, can mean little or very much for different people, depending on what we know and what we don't know.....
i wish i had said that first :))
cheers!
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fully agree !!!
how much do we know a person? how much do we know ourselves? by what we have done, or by what we have thoughts? can our thought always be expressible? . . .
Unknown!!! what we know is always that we're taught this or that way, meaning we are "inheriting" the minds who "teach" us . . .
but now, with an open mind [i try] to find it interesting otherwise i wouldn't have posted it....it was produced intentionally by "copying" somebody else's ideas, which is what we see everyday in our lives.....we "copy and paste"...
the so-called conceptualism is simply about how we perceive the world and how we are cheated and lured into its myriad of ideologies, etc...thus, the functions of art....
When i saw this piece, i asked myself "What do i know about art? What kind of art am i familiar with? Do i really understand art besides what i have been taught, such as this is art, beautiful and that's not??"
"Mao" has been a symbol of many kinds .... he was something in us when we were young in China ....but what did we know about him? What do we know now about what he has done? How much good, how much bad?
In westerners eyes, Mao is something else. Some view him as evil, responsible for the tens of thousands of death before and during the Cultural Rev.... and some think he is not that bad because he was a really good general fighting the American imperialists and Japanese Nazis....
Today, Mao is still there in the Tiananmen Square, his image, that is....but in China, where Mao was, U.S. dollars are more popular.....
A piece of art, like a poem, can mean little or very much for different people, depending on what we know and what we don't know.....
一目了然也。