Chinese Artist Ceramic Sunflower Seeds

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Chinese artist ceramic sunflower seeds.

Around 150 tons of seeds have been used to make an inches. Altogether the seeds weigh about 10 tons and can be configured in two ways. Follow the artist to the city of jingdezhen in northern jiangxi china where all of the sunflower seeds have been individually hand sculpted and hand painted. Adrian searle takes a walk across chinese artist ai weiwei s latest installation at tate modern.

Tate modern is to stop visitors walking over the chinese artist ai weiwei s vast field of 100m porcelain sunflower seeds because of health and safety fears over ceramic dust. The artist has stipulated two different configurations for the work. 1980 present 21st century. Cnn a maverick chinese artist has filled the main hall in london s famous tate modern art gallery with 100 million sunflower seeds.

Google classroom facebook twitter. Ai weiwei s sunflower seeds is an installation made up of 100 million hand painted porcelain sunflower seeds. Each seed has been individually sculpted and painted by specialists working in small scale workshops in the chinese city of jingdezhen. Ai weiwei kui hua zi sunflower seeds essay by megan lorraine debin.

It is a commentary on the mass production techniques that china caters to western countries. Arts and humanities ap college art history global contemporary. Far from being industrially produced they are the effort of hundreds of skilled hands. Chinese artist ai weiwei holds some seeds from his unilever installation sunflower seeds at the tate modern.

Altogether the seeds weigh about 10 tons and can be configured in two ways. 100 million porcelain sunflower seeds each painstakingly handmade podcast published. Kui hua zi sunflower seeds is an art installation created by contemporary artist and political activist ai weiwei it was first exhibited at the tate modern art gallery in london from october 2010 to may 2011. The sculptural installation comprises 100 million handmade porcelain replica.

Sunflower seeds 2010 consists of millions of individually handcrafted porcelain sunflower seeds the work has a volume of nearly ten cubic metres weighing approximately ten tonnes.