Modern Art in China

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This past week, a new national museum was opened in Beijing, which in many ways I can illustrate this present and complex scenario.

First, the curators of the Germans, the opening of the Chinese National Museum, which sends a clear message to our own uncertainty. building is 11 years, and often interrupted as a party can not agree which path to take. The exhibition is a mixture of Chinese history, recreation and celebrate the party, while praying at the Western ways with the title "celebration of the European Enlightenment. " This is the dichotomy that is now deeply in modern Chinese zeitgeist.

They are unsure which way to go. Perhaps the explanation lies in thethe absence of any cultural value that is left after Mao . A May to agree or disagree with their cultural standing, but no one can deny that he had a clear vision, Leader Mao, Mao sun that shines over the China. All you have succeeded then it is difficult to express in one line, or perhaps it could better be described as many have expressed, a lie, a fable of cement, glass and steel.

The Germans do not share with China, similar values​​, worship and order powers. This is problematic and dangerous mix that history has shown horrible outcomes when people are subjected to these ideals. The museum is located far away from ordinary people, and they will also be away from any contact to the art displayed there.

new museum also reflects the second Sino - German passion for the massive structure to celebrate the conquest of power. Museum architects, and the Germans, who comments that regime, the main concern is that the museum was built as the largest in terms of size, not a cultural or artistic value

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National Museum is located in a lot of what can best represent the current Chinese contemporary culture, a vast empty space, carefully guarded, was built for the rich few that are likely to remain empty, most of the time, except for selected tours and foreign visitors who can come to admire the new Chinese wealth. Within the most prominent object was described as "a precious national treasure, " Deng was a famous cowboy hat to be used in Rodeo during a visit to the United States. Outside, one May still witness so far-reaching and threatening military presence with a clinically selected soldiers marching in front of the museum in the German-designed choreography for a show of military power and order, now made ​​in China.