What does the Coca Cola Vase represent?
What does the Coca Cola Vase represent?
Coca Cola Vase interrogates the way cultural heritage is reliant on familiar symbols. Brandishing a consumerist image onto an endangered artefact, Ai shrewdly challenges the viewer to reconsider the notion of collective identity.
When was the Coca Cola vase made?
Executed in 2009, Ai Weiwei’s Coca-Cola Vase is part of an iconic series of hand-painted vases which began in 1994, shortly after the artist returned to China after twelve years in America.
Why did Ai Weiwei make the Coca Cola Vase?
For Ai Weiwei, it represents the tides of change and cultural conflict washing over his native China. With his ongoing Coca-Cola Vase series the artist’s message is clear. The well-worn logo is painted carefully onto Han-dynasty vases, the emblem of American capitalism juxtaposed with an ancient Chinese craft.
What is a Han jar?
Han Jar Overpainted with Coca-Cola Logo 1995 By branding a Western Han dynasty (206 B.C–A.D. 9) jar with the Coca-Cola logo—the quintessential emblem of global consumerism—Ai provokes viewers to recognize how China’s engagement with the West has had both destructive and creative consequences.
What do Ai Weiwei’s sunflower seeds represent?
Communist propaganda optimistically depicted leader Mao Zedong as the sun and the citizens of the People’s Republic of China as sunflowers, turning toward their chairman. Ai Weiwei reasserts the sunflower seed as a symbol of camaraderie during difficult times.
When did Han Dynasty begin and end?
Han Dynasty (206 B.C.–220 A.D.)
What era was the ceramic jar Hu made?
Covered Jar (Hu) 1st century B.C. During the Warring States period (475–221 B.C.), jades, bronze, textiles, musical instruments, books and other luxuries were often placed in tombs to serve the needs of the deceased in the afterlife.
Who created the covered jar Hu?
Covered Jar (Hu) | China | Western Han dynasty (206 B.C.–A.D.
Where are Ai Weiwei’s sunflower seeds now?
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei’s “sunflower seeds” – a work made up of 10 tonnes of porcelain seed replicas – has been bought by Tate Modern. The London gallery has acquired around eight million of the 100 million porcelain reproductions.
What religion was the Han empire?
The religious legacy of the 400-year Han era was the development of Confucianism and Daoism, and the acceptance of Mahayana Buddhism. During the Western Han era, the religion of Daoism developed and became China’s major indigenous religion.
How did the Han fall?
The Han Empire quickly broke down as a series of warlords fought each other for control. One, Cao Cao, who had possession of the young emperor Xian, tried to unify China, but ultimately failed. After Cao Cao died in 220 CE, the emperor Xian was forced to give up his position, officially ending the Han Dynasty.