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Shanghai at the Asian Art Museum Discipline: Visual Art I EDUCATOR GUIDE Subject: Shanghai at the Asian Art Museum Discipline: Visual Art SECTION I - OVERVIEW ......................................................................................................................2 EPISODE THEME SUBJECT CURRICULUM CONNECTIONS OBJECTIVE STORY SYNOPSIS INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES INSTRUCTIONAL OBJECTIVES EQUIPMENT NEEDED MATERIALS NEEDED INTELLIGENCES ADDRESSED SECTION II – CONTENT/CONTEXT ..................................................................................................3 CONTENT OVERVIEW THE BIG PICTURE RESOURCES – TEXTS RESOURCES – WEB SITES VIDEO RESOURCES BAY AREA FIELD TRIPS SECTION III – VOCABULARY.............................................................................................................6 SECTION IV – ENGAGING WITH SPARK .........................................................................................7 Vestiges of a Process: Shanghai Garden, by Zhang Jianjun. Still image from the SPARK story, 2010. SPARK Educator Guide – Shanghai at The Asian Art Museum 1 SECTION I - OVERVIEW SUBJECT • Hands‐on individual projects in which students Shanghai exhibition at The Asian Art Museum work independently • Hands‐on group projects in which students GRADE RANGES assist and support one another 6‐12 & Post‐secondary • Critical reflection on personal expressions and how they are seen and received by others CURRICULUM CONNECTIONS INSTRUCTIONAL OBJECTIVES Visual Arts & Language Arts • To introduce students to historical and OBJECTIVE contemporary artwork from Shanghai ¾ Understand the development of personal works • To provide context for the understanding of of art and their relationship to broader social Shanghai cultural traditions themes and ideas, abstract concepts, and the • To inspire students to explore Chinese art, culture, history of art. and history ¾ Develop visual, written, listening and speaking EQUIPMENT NEEDED skills through looking at, creating and talking about visual artworks. Spark story about the Shanghai exhibition at The Asian ¾ Develop an expressive visual vocabulary with Art Museum on VHS or DVD, or a computer with which to address personal and/or social themes Internet access, streaming capability, navigation and ideas. software, video projector, and speakers. ¾ Develop observational and representational skills by looking at and reproducing images of people, MATERIALS NEEDED places and things accurately and thoughtfully. • Internet access • Access to libraries with up‐to‐date collections of STORY SYNOPSIS periodicals, books, and research papers Shanghai at San Franciscoʹs Asian Art Museum is the • Pencils, pens, and paper first large‐scale exhibition to feature the cultural • Art materials – markers, colored pencils, etc. productions of the city of Shanghai. Using a wide range of visual artifacts, the exhibition traces the INTELLIGENCES ADDRESSED impact that globalization has had on molding the Interpersonal ‐ awareness of othersʹ feelings, cityʹs dynamic, international character. Spark gets a emotions, goals, motivations guided tour of this unprecedented exhibit. Intrapersonal ‐ awareness of oneʹs own feelings, emotions, goals, motivations INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES Spatial ‐ ability to manipulate and create mental • Group oral discussion, review and analysis, images in order to solve problems including peer review and aesthetic valuing as a group See more information on • Teacher‐guided instruction, including Multiple Intelligences at demonstration and guidance www.kqed.org/spark/education. SPARK Educator Guide – Shanghai at The Asian Art Museum 2 SECTION II – CONTENT/CONTEXT CONTENT OVERVIEW provocatively consider Shanghaiʹs traditions while looking forward to the future. Several of the works Shanghai at San Franciscoʹs Asian Art Museum is the employ installation techniques, expressing first large‐scale exhibition to feature the cultural themselves in a distinctly contemporary visual productions of the city of Shanghai. Using a wide language. Liu Jianhuaʹs installation Can You Tell Me? range of visual artifacts, the exhibition traces the features a series of stainless steel books suspended impact that globalization has had on molding the from one wall. Written in five international cityʹs dynamic, international character. Spark gets a languages, each book asks questions about guided tour of this unprecedented exhibit. Shanghaiʹs prospects. The work asks viewers to consider the possibilities of a city in constant flux as Using visual culture to reflect changes in Shanghai an international financial center. Vestiges of a Process: society, the exhibit covers more than 160 years of the Shanghai Garden, by Zhang Jianjun, reflects on change cityʹs history, beginning with its early stages as a and the passage of time, combining traditional forms small provincial center and working its way up to the with modern materials. Zhangʹs work brings together vibrant, international metropolis of today. Shanghai a rubber vase and silicone replicas of Taihu rocks ‐‐ comprises more than 130 works — including trade oil traditionally prized for providing city dwellers with a paintings, Art Deco furnishings, film clips, symbolic access to nature ‐‐ assembled on a platform revolutionary ephemera, and contemporary art — of antique bricks rescued from demolished Shanghai pulled mainly from the collections of the Shanghai houses constructed in the 1920s. Museum, the Shanghai History Museum, the Shanghai Art Museum, the Lu Xun Memorial Hall, Shanghai runs from February 12 through September 5, and the Shanghai Propaganda Poster Art Centre. 2010, and is the cornerstone of the Bay Area–wide yearlong celebration of San Franciscoʹs illustrious Co‐organized with the Shanghai Museum with sister city. The celebration features concerts, assistance from the Shanghai International Culture performances, films, lectures, special events, Association, Shanghai is divided into four historical programs, and exhibitions presented by local arts eras: Beginnings uses oil paintings and lithographs to organizations in honor of the 2010 World Expo in represent the early days of Shanghai through to the Shanghai, to be held May 1 through October 31. The 1842 British‐Chinese Treaty of Nanjing, which theme of the World Expo is Better City ‐‐ Better Life, designated the city as a Treaty Port; High Times heralding Shanghaiʹs 21st‐century status as a major features paintings, posters, fashion, film, and economic and cultural center. It is expected to furniture to show Shanghai during its Golden Era of generate the largest number of visitors in the history the 1920s and 1930s; Revolution spotlights a collection of World Expos. of propaganda posters in the early Communist days and traces the cityʹs embrace of modernization and industrialization; and finally, Shanghai Today reveals, THE BIG PICTURE through a collection of contemporary works, a city that is reclaiming its role as a center of global trade The history of Shanghai reveals a city that for and finance. centuries has been an important point of engagement between China and the rest of the world. Situated at Whereas the first three sections of Shanghai look back the mouth of the Yangtze River, Shanghai came to be at the cityʹs past, the works in the last section SPARK Educator Guide – Shanghai at The Asian Art Museum 3 China’s foremost center of trade, tourism, and During Chairman Mao’s Cultural Revolution of the immigration, and has grown to become one of the 50s and 60s Shanghai became an industrial center, largest cities in the world. and maintained a high level of economic productivity, though the impact of the era was Shanghai first became a city during the Yuan crippling to its capital development and Dynasty, in 1297. It gained further prominence infrastructure. The city was only permitted economic during the Ming Dynasty, when, in 1554, a city wall reforms in 1991, which led to its current vital role on was built around it, protecting it from Japanese the international financial stage. pirates. In 1602, the Shanghai gained a City God Temple — an honor usually bestowed on cities with In recent years Shanghai has also become an much greater political power than Shanghai had at international art center, with a thriving contemporary the time — in recognition of its rising economic art scene. Since the early 90s, an artistic practice that status. Thanks in part to a 1684 lift of a ban on ocean‐ combines traditional Chinese forms with going vessels that had been instituted during the contemporary Western art forms like installation, Ming Dynasty, Shanghai became the most important video, and photo‐based work has arisen, completely seaport in the region during the Qing Dynasty. In unprecedented in Chinese history. As Shanghai has 1732, the customs office for Jiangsu province was re‐opened to international influence, artists have moved to Shanghai, giving the city exclusive control embraced contemporary practices in order to express over the collection of customs for the entire province. the character of Shanghai culture. Since the late 90s a Despite still being at the lowest administrative level host of galleries and museums have come into being, in the political hierarchy, Shanghai had become the showing work by local practitioners that at one point most important port of trade for the entire lower only exited as part of an underground network of Yangtze. practitioners, exhibition spaces and collectors. The 19th century saw radical transformations in Shanghai’s international profile as a center for trade and culture. Because
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