astronomy

Li Xinmo

Li Xinmo is a astronomy topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Li Xinmo rather than just read about it. In short: Li Xinmo (Chinese: 李心沫; born April 21, 1976 in Yilan County, Heilongjiang) is a Chinese feminist artist, art critic, and teacher. She graduated from the Department of Chinese Painting, and received her master's degree from Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts in 2008 and now resides in Beijing.

Key takeaways

Li Xinmo belongs to astronomy; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Li Xinmo to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Li Xinmo from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Li Xinmo (Chinese: 李心沫; born April 21, 1976 in Yilan County, Heilongjiang) is a Chinese feminist artist, art critic, and teacher. She graduated from the Department of Chinese Painting, and received her master's degree from Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts in 2008 and now resides in Beijing. She is a member of the German IO culture institution, vice president of Chinese and Germany culture communication organization. Li is mainly devoted to feminist theory and contemporary art criticism research. Her creation involves a series of issues such as gender, ethnicity, environment, and national politics. Her artworks are based on a variety of media, especially performance, photography and painting. Her works have been exhibited in major art galleries such as the Louvre in France, the National Museums of World Culture in Gothenburg, Sweden, and the Bonn Women's Museum in Germany. She also participated in Toronto Photo Biennial and Prague Art Biennial. Many museums such as the Taida Museum and the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities in Sweden have some of her works.

Early life Li was born in 1976 in a traditional Chinese patriarchal family, and grew up in Heilongjiang Province in northern China. Xinmo once told that she grew up in a violent family in an interview. What's more, she studied calligraphy from an early age.

Education and early career Li graduated from Art Education Department of Harbin Normal University in 1997 and taught at a private university for half a year. From 2005 to 2008, she was a graduate student of the Chinese Painting Department of the Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts and a lecturer at the School of Modern Art of Tianjin Academy Fine Arts. It was in university that she experienced feminist artwork for the first time, which led to her interest in feminist theory, queer theory, and eco-feminism. In an interview, she listed female artists Louise Bourgeois, Marlene Dumas, Kiki Smith, and Marina Abramović as inspirations. Currently living in Beijing, she teaches at the School of Modern Art at Beijing Geely University.

Exhibitions "Excluded", Xinmo Li, Solo Exhibition, Kaiser & Cream Art District, Wiesbaden, Germany, March 2015. “In Another Place, And Here”, Exhibition, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Canada, 2015. “Guangzhou Live 5”, International action art event, Guangzhou Xiaozhou, China, 2014. “Bald Girls - Pink Solution”, Exhibition, Lia Contemporary Art, Colombia, 2014. “Switch”, Contemporary Art Exhibition, Xian Contemporary Museum, Xian, China, 2014. “Through The Body”, A primary exhibition of Contact Photography Festival, University of Toronto Art Centre, Toronto, Canada, 2014. “Single Mother”, Exhibition, Frauenmuseum, Bonn, Germany, January 2014. “Different Body”, Exhibition, Haian 523, Jiangsu Province, China, 2013. “Bald Girls - A door”, Zajialab, Beijing, China, 2013. “Secret Love”, Exhibition, National Museums of World Cultur, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2013. “Bald Girls Exhibition of Xiaolu Lixinmo and Lanjing”, Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China, 2012. “100 Anniversary Of Chinese Ink-Painting”, Exhibition, Louvre, France, 2012. “UN Forbidden City”, Macro, Rome, Italy, 2012. “Li Xinmo + Qingshuihuimei”, Performance Art Exhibition, Dingshun Contemporary Art Space, Beijing, China, 2011. “Oaths of Love”, Photography Exhibition, Wenjin International Gallery, Beijing, China, 2011. “Solo Exhibition” by Li Xinmo, Tense Space, Beijing, China, 2011. “An Archive of Contemporary Video Art in 2010”, Songzhuang Art Center, Beijing, China, 2010. “Collaboration - Contemporary Works of Video and Performance Art Exhibition”, Beijing, China, 2009. “Xi’an International Contemporary Art Fair Participant”, Xi’an Art Museum, Xi’an, China, 2009. “Changing Directions and Interconnections”, Contemporary Ink Painting Exhibition, Huantie Time Art Museum, Beijing, China, 2009. “Great Works of Chinese Oil Painting Exhibition”, China Central Place, Beijing, China, 2009. “21st Century Invitational Ink- Painting Exhibition”, Art Museum of China, Beijing, China, 2008. “Participant in an Italian Video Art Performance”, Yuanfen Gallery, Beijing, China, 2008. “Beijing Dadao Live Arts Festival”, Yu Gallery, Beijing, China, 2008. “Exhibition of International Contemporary Art”, Beijing Sunshine Art Gallery, Beijing, China, 2008. “Major Exhibition of Young Artists”, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China, 2008.

Artwork "The Death of the Xinkai River" is one of Li Xinmo's earliest performance pieces, performed in June 2008. At that time, Li lived at the Xinkai River, which is severely polluted. In an interview, Li explains her personal connection to the river as well as the rape and murder of a woman that led Li to create her piece:

In the summer, the water is covered with cyano algae that spread a pungent smell. Each time I walked along the river I became incredibly sad. Those green hues glared and were turbid at the same time: life and death all in one. One day a girl’s body was recovered from the river. Later it was confirmed that she had been raped and murdered. an artwork. It was my performance piece The Death of the Xinkai River. I cannot swim, I am afraid of it even. Nevertheless, I went into this dead river. The performance resembled a theater amidst nature. . . . This river was a metaphor for the death of nature. I combined female death and the death of nature to an integral whole. It was a double metaphor that was in keeping with my own situation at that time as well as the realities that I observed. In another interview, Li describes this work from an eco-feminist lens:

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Li Xinmo

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Li Xinmo claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In astronomy, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Li Xinmo before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Li Xinmo ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Li Xinmo

In research: Li Xinmo appears in astronomy research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Li Xinmo in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Li Xinmo is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1976 births, 20th-century Chinese artists, 20th-century Chinese women artists, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Li Xinmo outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Li Xinmo in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Li Xinmo means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Li Xinmo out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Li Xinmo in simple terms?

Why does Li Xinmo matter?

Because it connects several astronomy ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Li Xinmo?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Li Xinmo.