01.29.12 /12:31
Yves Klein, Leap Into the Void, 1960 “To paint space, I must be in position. I must be in space.”
01.26.12 /17:15/♥ 1
yves klein
Ai Weiwei, Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn, 1995 Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn is a painstakingly deliberate close-up of the split seconds required to permanently transform an artifact that had survived over two thousand years. … While the triptych gained notoriety as an iconoclastic gesture, it encapsulates several broader constants in Ai’s work: the socio-political commentary on the random nature of vectors of power; questions of authenticity and value (vis-à-vis the artist’s comment that the value of “Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn” has today exceeded that of the once-prized urn itself), and the cycle of creative destruction necessary for any culture’s survival and evolution.
01.17.12 /14:46
ai weiwei
Canvas  by  andbamnan