{"id":322,"date":"2021-09-29T16:38:08","date_gmt":"2021-09-29T23:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/art211tianyu\/?p=322"},"modified":"2021-10-07T16:38:37","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T23:38:37","slug":"unit-3-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/art211tianyu\/2021\/09\/29\/unit-3-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Unit 3 Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As <em>BODY OF ART<\/em> illustrates, \u201cArtists throughout history have used the body to represent power in both physical and abstract ways.\u201d (p. 106) The human body of different historical periods and different genders often contains different metaphors. For example, in medieval paintings showing the strength of the human body, the male torso is often filled with a sense of power and brutality. Conquest and domination are perfectly represented by the muscular lines, while the soft body often symbolizes submission to and admiration of hegemony. In traditional male-dominated societies, men were the main creators, while women were often the objects to be seen and watched. In the wake of social development, women&#8217;s self-awareness has awakened and women have begun to pursue equality of power and change of status. The birth of feminism is the product and inevitable result of the economic development of the times.<\/p>\n<p>The reason why people love body art is that artists borrow the language of the human body to worship life, praise nature, celebrate youth, eulogize love, the pursuit of freedom, this creative expression is the intrinsic motivation to produce excellent works of body art, it does not lead people into the path of evil ideas. When the development of art in different cultures to a certain period, has shown a strong interest in the human body, mainly as a result of the influence of Western humanist thought. Humanist thought advocates human-centeredness, respect for human freedom and dignity, the implementation of secular culture for human beings, and the glorification of the spiritual and physical beauty of human beings as the main characteristics. These ideas have profoundly influenced people&#8217;s aesthetic understanding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As BODY OF ART illustrates, \u201cArtists throughout history have used the body to represent power in both physical and abstract ways.\u201d (p. 106) The human body of different historical periods and different genders often contains different metaphors. For example, in medieval paintings showing the strength of the human body, the male torso is often filled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1150,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art211","category-read"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/art211tianyu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/art211tianyu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/art211tianyu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/art211tianyu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1150"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/art211tianyu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/art211tianyu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/art211tianyu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions\/323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/art211tianyu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/art211tianyu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/art211tianyu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}