If you don t know much or care much about the history and politics of modern-day China, Bennet says

She was talking about My Generation: Young Chinese Artists,  the first U.S. exhibition to focus solely on the post-Mao generation of Chinese artists. It offers the first look at how China’s mega-development has impacted its youth culture and spawned new art trends. The exhibition is curated by noted contemporary Chinese art expert Barbara Pollack.
discount car rental Lennie Bennett, art critic of the Tampa Bay Times whom we quoted above, describes the exhibition this way: The vast range in styles and sensibilities of the 27 artists, all in their 20s and 30s, is held together by themes broader than China s borders: the soul-crushing effects of urbanization and displacement, discount car rental questions discount car rental about spirituality, individuality, family ties and other personal relationships.
This exhibition is so vast and wide-ranging, it takes two museums to hold it. If you join Orange Blossom Tours on Friday, September 19, we ll take you to both the Tampa Museum of Art s portion and the Museum of Fine Arts portion in St. Petersburg for this first ever U.S. exhibit of contemporary Chinese art. To maximize your enjoyment, we have also arranged docent-led tours of each museum s portion of the  My Generation  exhibit.
Featuring 27 artists from mainland China who were born after the death of Mao and during the One Child Policy era, the exhibition examines five broad themes: relationships, the family, politics, the environment, and religion, and reflects the values of a generation of artists who grew up as China was becoming ever more international in its outlook. discount car rental This exhibition demonstrates how young Chinese artists discount car rental are breaking out in ways that challenge and defy the styles of an older generation of Chinese artists already known in the west. Media include paintings, drawings, photography, videos, sculptures, and installations.
“ You have to understand the world at this moment to see the show ,” said Todd Smith, executive director of the Tampa Museum of Art. All of the artists in this exhibition were born after 1976 and at the end of the Cultural Revolution. Almost all of them are products of the One Child Policy and have grown up in a country with a high-powered market discount car rental economy. All of them, whether educated in the West or not, have been exposed to global art movements through the Internet and to an increasingly liberalized education at China s art academies. As a result, they have full access to the art scene and freedom to create art, as long as they don t directly challenge the political status quo.
If you don t know much or care much about the history and politics of modern-day China, Bennet says you can enjoy the exhibition simply for its art. “ You’ll also find lots of visual discount car rental dazzle, the museum equivalent of Chinese fireworks with lots of color and explosive vitality .
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