The artwork I chose from the artist I wrote a biography on was Feng Mengbo’s art piece called “The Long March” from 2008. The size of this artwork is in the traditional Chinese life-size long scroll. Feng then used his style of art, which is media to come up with this piece of art. Given Feng’s love for media and video games, he put himself in a classic remake of a Super Mario Brothers-styled stage. You can tell by the graphics, use of characters, and media style that Feng was communicating the awesome adventures in the classic 1980s video game Super Mario Brothers by Nintendo, in his eyes. Feng’s use of media to create his artwork lead to a new revolution of artwork. Instead of using paint or ink, Feng used computer technology to create his works. Given some of his artworks were before modern software, most artworks were drawn by hand onto a computer-based platform that he could turn into art. These days, you could use photoshop to make it look like you made artwork online, but its not authentic like Feng’s work (which was authentic). Even though Feng grew up during the Cultural Revolution in China (1966-1976) in his later years when he started to become famous for his unique style of art, the idea of Mao Zedong and Communism did not come into play; nor did the traditional style of art interest Feng.
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