After watching the two videos on artists Diego Rivera and Ai Weiwei, please start a thread and write a comment that addresses the following 3 questions.
How are these artists using their artworks to affect social change?
What changes do you think each of these artists are hoping for in their societies?
In your opinion, why is art a unique vehicle for promoting societal change?
Please then respond to another student’s thread. In your response, if you agree or disagree, please clearly articulate WHY. Please use full sentences. Your responses
VIDEO: Ai Weiwei
https://art21.org/watch/art-in-the-twenty-first-century/s6/ai-weiwei-in-change-segment/
Diego Rivera: I paint what I see
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john
How are these artists using their artworks to affect social change?
These artists are showcasing the tensions between art, human rights and politics. All viewers have a difference in vision in what they see, which is probably why some of their work can be super controversial to some people.
What changes do you think each of these artists are hoping for in their societies?
After watching these two videos, I believe that these two artists really want to bring awareness to what is happening in society. I believe when art is displayed to affect social change, the artist wants the viewer to have their own thoughts and feelings on the piece of work but to also understand where the meaning behind it comes from.
In your opinion, why is art a unique vehicle for promoting societal change?
Art can make you feel things that other forms of media can’t. You can decided for yourself how you feel about the piece of work and make sense with what the artist is trying to convey. You decide the meaning of the work while taking in what the artist created it for. It gives you another sense of imagination and gives you the ability to feel what you want to feel about it.
amber
How are these artists using their artworks to affect social change?
Diego Rivera’s murals didn’t shy away from difficult subject matters and depicted real life instances throughout history, that he too lived through. But he also shows the positive aspects of society that bring hope and positivity. Both of these aspects can bring social change from displaying true experiences in history and for the viewer to learn from it.
Ai Weiwei also isn’t one to shy away from hard topics of interests, which in doing so bring a conversation to such topics. He is bringing awareness of how the Chinese government is using surveillance to control citizens.
Both artist are fighting against political and social issues and are using their art to bring awareness and hopefully changes.
What changes do you think each of these artists are hoping for in their societies?
I think Diego Rivera doesn’t want to repeat history but also bring hope to his community through his art.
I think Ai Weiwei wanted to bring awareness to different topics in the world, but usually having to do with Chinese culture, politics, or society, that others may not see as important.
In your opinion, why is art a unique vehicle for promoting societal change?
I think art is unique in promoting social change because a lot of art is about how you interpret what the artist is trying to tell you. So instead of having someone telling you how you should feel or what you should believe, art kind of helps guide you into beliefs and your own opinions, and I think that idea applies to art promoting social change.
grace
How are these artists using their artworks to affect social change?
These two artist, Diego and Ai portray the political persecution and societal perspectives and animate it with their paintings and sculptures so people discrepancy each conflict. Diego’s art is more about what what he sees in society, around him including the everyday pain of humans under an oppressive government. Ai uses art to affect Society change by using new ideas of his artwork wanting art to be for everyone.
What changes do you think each of these artists are hoping for in their societies?
Both artist wanted to make art understandable about certain situations, Diego art passion was more with civil rights to his murals caused lots of unrest through evrey bit of the Mexican nation. Diego was also hoping people can make art of the struggles and what’s going around you in your society just like he did. Ai was hoping to give peek of the Chinese culture.
In your opinion, why is art a unique vehicle for promoting societal change?
In my opinion art is unique in every way and everybody has art in them I feel like starting of with different cultures and where people come from in what makes artb and people unique by experienceing the difference of creation. Art also helps view things differently by guiding you into beliefs and your own thinking to art promoting social change
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