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Hello. So the artist I chose was hung liu.
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The reason that I chose her is because I find
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her artwork very inspiring and beautiful.
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I say this because she has been through a lot
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in her childhood and when she was living in china
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she had went through the cultural revolution which the chinese
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had. The chinese then had sent her to work with
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the peasants in the field like doing hard labor work
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that men do every day.
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She had no weekends, no pay.
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So on her on her free time she would she
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would draw.
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And I think that that is inspiring because it takes
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a lot especially as a woman she said that she
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wanted to do something other than work, eat and sleep.
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So when she didn't have a little time she was
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just she would draw um some pictures that she would
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make was of women breastfeeding babies, people laying on the
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ground. She would draw some peasants and historical pictures which
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she got into.
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When she came to America In 1984.
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She says that she can look at those historical photos
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and a reminder of ourself.
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She felt that she could see what someone has been
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there. Just by looking at a picture.
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One of her artworks that I liked were called new
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mu which means mother and daughter.
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I don't know.
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It's very sorry.
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Oh here it is.
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This is the new mo and the picture, it is
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a mother and a daughter pulling a ship upstream with
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a chain using body force.
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This is what I mean by labor work.
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When I look at this, I feel I feel sad
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for them because they had they had to do this.
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They didn't have a choice and they didn't they didn't
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get paid, they didn't get congratulated or probably not even
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appreciate it.
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Um let's see an element that I found was texture.
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I say this because because of the like the roughness
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of the picture and like the mushy water and the
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rocks and all the the dripping kind of looks like
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sweat coming off the body.
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Um There's definitely a lot of texture in this piece
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of artwork.
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Excuse me.
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Um A piece I mean the principal I would say
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is balance because if you were to fold this picture
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down the middle of it was like a line down
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that picture.
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If you were to fold the picture down that line,
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everything would be balanced.
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They would, they pretty much look the same on both
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sides. Uh huh.
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The other one that I found interesting was This one
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strange fruit.
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I think it's kind of an odd name but strange
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fruit is under her category as comfort women these women
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are working.
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Um mm They This was made in America in 2001.
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This this painting shows her experiences while she was growing
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up in china during the Cultural Revolution.
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I see a lot of dedication and adversity in this
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picture. Um yeah.
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Uh huh.
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An element I see as shapes.
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There's a lot of circles and triangles and I guess
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you could say lines but they're all closed in um,
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along with some other freeform shapes and hung liu did
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say. And one of her videos that she does use
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shapes as she is the shapes as one of her
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elements like a lot.
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That's one of her main elements.
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Um, the principal design I say I think I think
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would be proportion.
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All the parts go together.
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Nothing is unorganized, all the humans working next to each
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other. It's all well proportioned.
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The body shapes and sizes aren't are odd.
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Everything kind of goes together with it.
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Um, Yeah the principle that the principle of design and
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the element of shapes.
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So I chose I chose this artist as well because
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most people use their past as an excuse to be
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lazy and not have a good future.
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But she took her free time.
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You've been working every day and put all of your
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thoughts and feelings on paper and made beautiful artwork out
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of it.
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I did have a hard time choosing who to write
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about or present about.
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But for some reason, this one, she just caught my
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eye and I really I think that she'll forever be
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interesting to me.
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Thank you for listening.
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And here is my were excited right here at the
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top and then right.