Hung Liu's Relic 12 juxtaposes an image of a Chinese courtesan with the characters for "female" and "Nu-Wa" in a red box in the middle of the canvas. Who is Nu-Wa, and how do Hung Liu's lines work together to depict her?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: The ideal answer should include:
1. Nu-Wa is the Chinese creation goddess, who is worshiped as the intermediary between men and women, the giver of children, and the inventor of marriage.
2. To create humans, she began molding each one individually. That became tedious, so she dipped a rope in mud and swung it, covering the earth with lumps of mud.
3. The handmade figurines became the wealthy and noble; those that arose from the mud were the poor and common.
4. Hung Liu uses different lines, both gestural and controlled, dripped and carefully drawn, to imply the full story of creation.
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