Ai Weiwei's Sunflower seeds at the Tate
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What a waste of time and resources, how big is this prat Wei Wei's ego ?
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If you wonder, this is how they are made: /watch?v=PueYywpkJW8
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He was should thrown in jail for his name alone let alone that abomination he calls art
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@19008837 All i was worried was about the seeds so if they not real seeds then art can named whatever you want to call it.
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@kenzlee16 Yea, I was just there for a few hours though because I was on a school trip and we where visiting several museums a day.. so I didn't get to see much there :(
I'm planning on going back to London at some point and when I do I will spend all day and more if I need to at both the Tates.. they where amazing.
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WHAT A WASTE OF SEEDS, ANYTHING FOR THE NAME OF ART
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@sparkieemae hmmmf it was such an opportunity to go there, but it was very disappointing..hope i can go there! dont worry you will be there next time
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Went to London. Went to the Tate. and...
I FUCKING MISSED THIS PIECE :(!
I. Hate. Everything.
Chairman Mao was the Sun, while tens of millions of Chinese people at that time were sunflowers turning towards him, that's the BBC expalin the political meaning of this artistic installation.
I'm the Chinese born 6 years after Mao died, my parents' generation was like sunflowers, while we are the 'seeds' of them. Feel like Ai Weiwei is putting us as his minimalism elements into this show, we look almost no different from one another in individual, but immense and intense as a whole. LOL
iceagefish 1 year ago 29
@as05ca
Well in think the reason for the art was he wanted the vistor to experience and contemplate the essence of his comment on mass consumption, chinese industry, famine and collective work.
And it had a political message which was every time you see chairman Mao in paintings sunflowers are all around him because this name means SUN, and the people around him in the party are the sunflowers.
Do you understand it a bit more???, ' smile' lol
TamaraAndTheDemon 1 year ago 6