ARTIST: WU WEI SHAN.
TITLE: “MOTHER AND SON”
DATE: 2001
THE title of this artwork is christened “MOTHER AND THE SON”, the artist is WU WEI SHAN, that was made in 2001, when I first saw it, I didn’t recognized it, because the materials which the artist used were too simple, he seemed only to use gypsum, wood and some pigment to make it, the surface of the work didn’t exude many details, but the artist used an astute way, that artwork told us, a mother and her young son, she used her arm to lift the son, one of her hand touched son’s neck, the other held his waist, and her son seemed to ride on her shoulder , and burrows his face into his mother’s , from the work, mother used her shoulder to hold her son’s whole weight. This is not colorful, and doesn’t have many shapes, lines, but it has an “elaborate” structure and the contour, from the different direction, you could see the silhouette from it, the subject of this work are the mother and her son, if you saw it from a long distance, you could see a contour, which a mother who used her shoulder to support her son.
The artwork makes me feel a sense of nostalgia about my infancy, when I saw it, it made me recall my childhood, and the sense of the past things seemed blurring before my eyes. I remember when I was in Grade one, when I first went to school, I rode on my father‘s shoulder, he tried to encourage me be braver, be more masculine, because before I went to school I often stayed at home, and seldom met strangers, so that day, I remembered I cried seriously, I cried for going to school, I was afraid of anything, my noise seemed to make us more conspicuous, in other people’s minds, they saw a father used his shoulder to carry his son, who was crying. Now when I mentioned it, I feel that is so “ridiculous” and nostalgic.
Personally, I think this art work represent people’s domestic things, it doesn’t relate to other events in the world, but it has the relation to the classes, this work just represents the people who live in middle class, and the lower class, because in my mind, as a family, the more wealth it is, the less harmony will people get. If a father was extremely rich, he nearly gets all the things in his life, but my subconscious mind tell me, he will not use his shoulder to carry sons, because of the etiquette, gentle, and the genteel manner, he will not do it, instead if a father didn’t have enough money to support his family, I feel he gets one important thing-----family harmony, his solicitude for his son could be inconceivable, he could die for his children, let alone carry them!
So in my opinion, the main intention which the artist wants to tell us is the harmony between family members, but also alludes to the hard working nature of the lower class.
TITLE: “MOTHER AND SON”
DATE: 2001
THE title of this artwork is christened “MOTHER AND THE SON”, the artist is WU WEI SHAN, that was made in 2001, when I first saw it, I didn’t recognized it, because the materials which the artist used were too simple, he seemed only to use gypsum, wood and some pigment to make it, the surface of the work didn’t exude many details, but the artist used an astute way, that artwork told us, a mother and her young son, she used her arm to lift the son, one of her hand touched son’s neck, the other held his waist, and her son seemed to ride on her shoulder , and burrows his face into his mother’s , from the work, mother used her shoulder to hold her son’s whole weight. This is not colorful, and doesn’t have many shapes, lines, but it has an “elaborate” structure and the contour, from the different direction, you could see the silhouette from it, the subject of this work are the mother and her son, if you saw it from a long distance, you could see a contour, which a mother who used her shoulder to support her son.
The artwork makes me feel a sense of nostalgia about my infancy, when I saw it, it made me recall my childhood, and the sense of the past things seemed blurring before my eyes. I remember when I was in Grade one, when I first went to school, I rode on my father‘s shoulder, he tried to encourage me be braver, be more masculine, because before I went to school I often stayed at home, and seldom met strangers, so that day, I remembered I cried seriously, I cried for going to school, I was afraid of anything, my noise seemed to make us more conspicuous, in other people’s minds, they saw a father used his shoulder to carry his son, who was crying. Now when I mentioned it, I feel that is so “ridiculous” and nostalgic.
Personally, I think this art work represent people’s domestic things, it doesn’t relate to other events in the world, but it has the relation to the classes, this work just represents the people who live in middle class, and the lower class, because in my mind, as a family, the more wealth it is, the less harmony will people get. If a father was extremely rich, he nearly gets all the things in his life, but my subconscious mind tell me, he will not use his shoulder to carry sons, because of the etiquette, gentle, and the genteel manner, he will not do it, instead if a father didn’t have enough money to support his family, I feel he gets one important thing-----family harmony, his solicitude for his son could be inconceivable, he could die for his children, let alone carry them!
So in my opinion, the main intention which the artist wants to tell us is the harmony between family members, but also alludes to the hard working nature of the lower class.
I like this art work, because in my mind, the artwork use the most mediocre materials to make the greatest symbol, the artist told us the natural relation between the family member-------harmony, and the hard working for our parents, in this artwork, the artist seemed to empathize the mother’s shoulder and the arm, these parts of body were given more lines, expression, shapes than other part, the artist also use the light brown to paint these parts, so I feel professor WU wants to let us know how hard the mother is, when she wants to rise up her son, from the arm.
Different people must have their own aesthetic, some of them could have a similar opinion as me, some could not think so, because they could think, the artwork is so rough, it lacks details, the materials are so low standard, it has thousands of howlers in it, it totally doesn’t have poetic felling…However as me, I have my own opinion, altogether, I like this kind of recondite work.
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