Week 7-Industrialisation and Cao Fei's RMB City

1. What and when was the Industrial Revolution?

The Industrial Revolution was a period from the 18th to the 19th century where major changes in agriculture, manufacturing, mining, transportation, and technology had a profound effect on the socioeconomic and cultural conditions of the times.And the Industrial Revolution make the relationship of  all over the world are more close,also promote evolution of the mordern city . People's life style and ideas had been a huge change.
2.Research both Modernist paintings in order to comment on the subject matter, form and style used to celebrate the machine and motion in each painting. Answer the question in 2 parts for each painting
For the first art work,the style is quite substantial. Be lookling at this art work carefully, it shows poeple some story between sivilian and new life style. Overthrow the history background, when Industrialisation hapening, the drawer describe what a gratulation around sicilian's mind. But also from the painting style, there is quite bright colours what drawer used. And the these persons who on this painting, we can see everbody's arms are puting up, it express the labour force got free,and how exciting people's feeling.
For the seconed paniting,the style is simple. It is looks like kind of wash painting. This painting decribe about a dynamism of a dog on leash. Thinking about this painting with Industralisation, the dog is symbol people and the leash is aymbol the new time of indusralistion. Usually, before the dog go out, they need take the leash. Therefore, before Industrialisation, people's working efficiency is quite low, but when they by dint of industrialisation, people get more free more than before, and people are feel energetic because of industrialisation make lots of machine to promote their working efficiency.

3. Research Cao Fei's RMB City (2007-9)  in order to comment on this work in more depth.
RMB city is a internet suppositional cit which made by Cao fei.This work  is close with fashionable culture, and also inclued  communicate for citzen ,government,ect.This RMB city is full of metaphor of Chinese antinomy and irony of  devolopment. That is like our real city life, this suppositional city is quite morden, altitudinal entertainment and exaggerate.The government form and the pollutiong everywhere. This work has concentrate all of the Chinese  morden city's character. When the player into this game they can see the Chinese history and a lot of Chinese morden architecture and suculpture. Cao fei try to use a special way to let the common peole to understand what is happened in China on this time, this way is better than the news and website.

4. RMB City is described as a utopia/dystopia. Comment on what these terms mean, and how they can be applied to the work.
Utopia  is an ideal community or society possessing a perfect socio-politico-legal system. The word was imported from Greek, by Sir Thomas More for his 1516 book Utopia, describing a fictional island in the Atlantic Ocean. The term has been used to describe both intentional communities that attempt to create an ideal society, and fictional societies portrayed in literature. It has spawned other concepts, most prominently dystopia.For Cao fei's RMB's city, Althoug the artist put in to lots of disappoinment for this work, but we also can feeling some thing about the hope and nice point on there. As our real life city, there not just has unsatisfactory stuff, more and more are goodness and hope. Cao fei make the unsatisfactory to scratch a kind of sophistication, it also could let the best wish of utopia to stand out.On another hand, Cao fei made all of Chinese morden architectuer, sculpture, history and culture together, it also could realised the utopia that about Cao fei's work meaning.

5. Although the Modernist paintings and the contemporary digital work have emerged from
different contexts, there are also many similarities. Comment on the similarities that you can see in the work.
First, from the main idea to thinking about that,whatever they use what kind of art skills to create thier idea, the modernist paintings and the contemporary digital work both are could catharsised the artist think.On another hand, these different two ways both could link with the problems, background and history of the time.