Jinming Ye
Poster Subject: Heritage Studies
Poster Title: China Image, Prosperity and Loot, Past and Now
Bio: I'm a Chinese Female textile artist located in St John's NL, currently pursuing my Master of Fine Arts at MUN. My art practice is textiles, beads, and crafts related to my culture. I'm working on Chinese cultural relics overseas, culture memory, and culture tourism research. I'm also active in international artists & student affairs, I'm working on International artists' settlement and career projects.
Abstract: China image in Contempory artists and Intagebile culture heritage. Artworks usually reflect the current cultural trends and political environment. In other words, popular artworks are mostly products selected to match the cultural trends and political environment. Artworks related to China in the Western modern art market are always associated with politics, with an undisguised political orientation. In the eyes of some artists, the only thing worth depicting about people is their sexual characteristics. These artists prefer to depict an ugly, poor, thief-prostitute world, and claim that this is the real China. The Western world and the Chinese world consume completely different cultural products. In China we consider art is service for people, not a tool for the capitalist to consolidate its discourse power and wealth. Due to the long history and vast territory, there are countless examples to choose from. Based on my previous artistic practice, I started with a modern artist and an intangible cultural heritage. Wu Guanzhong is one of the representatives of modern Chinese art painters. His works combine Western modern art and traditional Chinese ink painting. Intangible cultural heritage refers to various traditional cultural expressions that exist in an intangible form and are passed down from generations of all ethnic groups regarded as part of cultural heritage, as well as physical objects and places related to them. Hanfu is the traditional costume of the Chinese nation. It carries the Chinese dyeing, weaving, and embroidery crafts and aesthetics, and inherits more than 30 Chinese intangible cultural heritages and protected Chinese arts and crafts.
Corresponding Author's Email: jye21@mun.ca