a brief look at art in China since 1989 (June 4 Tiananmen Square protest)
Transcript of Contemporary Chinese Art
Art in China
Since Tiananmen Square, 1989
• Tiananmen Square protests, 1989
• Yue Minjun, Portrait of the Artist and his Friends
• “Long Live Chairman Mao!” 1970
• “Turn China into a prosperous, rich, and powerful industrialized socialist country under the leadership of the Communist Party and Chairman Mao!” 1954
• Yue Minjun Untitled, 1998
• Yue Minjun
• “Comrade Mao is the greatest Marxist-Leninist of the Present Age” 1969 Socialist Realist propaganda poster
• 2006
• Oil on canvas, 82 x 82 cm
• Scholars’ Rock series, 2006
• Oil on canvas, 180 x 130 cm
• Yue Minjun, Contemporary Terracotta Warrior, nd
• Yue Min Jun, Contemporary Terra Cotta Warriors, 2007 (Installation view), bronze
• Yue Min Jun, The Pope, 1997
• Girl Reading a letter by an open window, 2006, Yue Minjun
• Vermeer, Girl Reading Letter by an Open Window, 1657-9
• Xu Bing Book from the sky, 1988
• Queesland, Australia installation of Book from the Sky
• Book from the Ground 2007
Wang GuangyiGreat Castigation Series: Coca-Cola, 1993
Wang Guangyi
Porsche
2005Oil on canvas
Xu Yihui , Money (+ The little red book, larger; 2 works), painted porcelain and metal, 1998-9
Political pop, Gaudy art
• Xu Yihui, Little Red Book Series (192 books), 2006
• Luo Brothers, I Love Tienanmen Square, Beijing #29, 1996-7 (photograph, computer graphic, water color, lacquer on board )
• Luo Brothers, "Welcome to the Famous Brand of the World, Coca Cola Light“ 2006-2007 (Welcome to the Famous Brand series)
• Chinese New Year poster, Beijing (Year of the Rooster) 2005-6
• World Famous Brands Series (Climbing On Coke) 2007
Welcome to the World Famous Brands series, 2007, laquer on wood
Luo Brothers, "Welcome to the World Famous Brand“ series
• Welcome World Brands series - Siemens, 2007 Carved wood and lacquer, 67 x 55 cm.
Cai Guo-Qiang
• I Want to Believe, mid-career retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum, NY (currently showing)
• Drawing for Transient Rainbow"2003Gunpowder on paper, 198 x 157 inches
Black Rainbow," proposal2005Explosion project for Valencia, SpainDate: May 1, 2005Time: 12 noon