Even if you do not follow the art world, it is hard to not notice the works by Chinese artist 岳敏君 YUE Minjun—a man in tighty whities frozen in his laughter would put a smile in anyone’s face.
The men depicted in his paintings and sculptures are in fact the artist himself, and they are seen doing all kinds of activities which read more WTF than reality. If his work features more than one person, it would be a whole array of them. The joy is so overdone that it seems more like irony than reality. And that seems to be the artist’s intention, as his work has been described by theorist Li Xianting as “a self-ironic response to the spiritual vacuum and folly of modern-day China.”
Art critics have often associated Yue with the Cynical Realism art movement in contemporary Chinese art, although he himself rejects the label, while at the same time “doesn't concern himself about what people call him.”
YUE Minjun (b. 1962 China)
Free Sky No. 1, 2012
Oil on canvas
100 x 90 cm
39 3/8 x 35 3/8 in
岳敏君 (生於 1962年, 中國)
自由的天空 No. 1, 2012
布油畫
100 x 90 cm
39 3/8 x 35 3/8 in
# Yue Minjun
Yue Minjun (Chinese: 岳敏君; born 1962) is a contemporary Chinese artist based in Beijing, China. He is best known for oil paintings depicting himself in various settings, frozen in laughter. He has also reproduced this signature image in sculpture, watercolour and prints.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yue_Minjun
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+ Date: 2013-05-23T16:51:37+0800
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+ GPS: 22°16'59” N 114°10'22” E
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+ Series: 新聞攝影 Photojournalism, SML Fine Art, Art B
