Contemporary Chinese Art

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Art in China Since Tiananmen Square, 1989

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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

Cai Guo Qiang, Innoportune Stage 1, 2004

• Zhang Huan, Family Tree, 2000

• Zhang Huan, 12 square meters, 1994 (C-print document of performance)

• Zhang Huan, To raise the water level in a fishpond, 1997