Beyond Virus
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2022-09
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Beneath the shadow of the coronavirus pandemic, we have witnessed not only a global public health emergency but also other social crises, such as anti-Asian racism, the Black Lives Matter movement, etc. The pandemic has created an environment for potential social crises and has exacerbated existing social crises. However, when social and cultural crises explode, art responds to them. As an Asian artist who was educated in China and Canada, the existing social issues toward people of color inform my concerns about North American multiculturalism and my art practice. This thesis is divided into five sections: a brief introduction of the background of discrimination in North America and my art practices (Chapter One); the illustration of art appropriation, text-based and comic style artworks that influence my art practices (Chapter Two); how artists’ works reflect their position on social issues (Chapter Three); my thesis exhibition (Chapter Four); and my conclusion (Chapter Five). This paper, alongside the paintings created for my exhibition, explores the usage of appropriation in my art practice and the strength between original works and my recontextualization as well as the roots of racial discrimination and stereotypes.
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Appropriation, Paintings, Racism, Recontextualization, Stereotype, Social Crisis, Comics
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Qu, S. (2022). Beyond virus (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca.