Made In China, mouai,…
Made In China, again,….
Made In China, uh excuse me, but my foot is grafted to my shoe,…
Attack Of Mutant Sheep ?
Remix of Thriller ?
Nah nah, Made In China!!!
Well, that’s a bit of an exaggeration, but it reflects public opinion on China.
However, although the production of clothing, electronics, and toys leaves much to be desired, China is at the top of the artistic game:
Let’s take for example the TOP 9 of the most highly rated artists born after 1945 in the world in 2007:
1- Damien Hirst – English – $17.1M – Lullaby Spring
2- Jean-Michel Basquiat – American – $13M – Untitled
3- Peter Doing – Scottish – $10M – White Canoe
4- Jeff Koons – American – $5.1M – Michael Jackson & Bubbles
5- Yifei Chen – Chinese – $4.7M – Eulogy of the Yellow River
6- Minjun Yue – Chinese – $3.8M – The Pope
7- Anselm Kiefer – German – $3.2M – Lasst Tausend Blumen Blühen
8- Marlene Dumas – South African – $3M – The Teacher
9- Andreas Gursky – German – $2.9M – 99 cent II
Eulogy of the Yellow River de Yifei Chen
The Pope de Yue Minjun
After if we take the TOP 9 of the best rated artists in 2005 no Chinese, but it’s already not bad !
1- Pablo Picasso
2- Andy Warhol
3- Claude Monet
4- Canaletto
5- Mark Rothko
6- Marc Chagall
7- Willem De Kooning
8- Fernand Léger
9- Jean-Michel Basquiat
Yue Minjun
Yue Minjun, Chinese contemporary artist, creates works tinged with humor, cynicism and satire. He is greatly inspired by European painting, including Goya, Manet, Velazquek,…
Painting that he hijacks to bring it to the edge of caricature and pop culture to express through the laughing faces of his characters, the violent anxiety and the anxiety of the violence of our society.
Here is what Yue Minjun thinks about his art called Cynical Realism:
“Cynical Realism” is a term coined by Chinese art critic and curator Li Xianting to describe the reaction of artists to the political events of 1989. At that time many artists working in China were frustrated by the government, […]. The only ways to express their annihilation and suffering were sarcasm, political satire, and cynicism. Cynical realism is the heir to social realism, […] it also has a lot of conceptual depth.”
China, the country that executes the most prisoners, the reaper does not work 35 hours, but it also reaps wheat, and it pays, Yue Minjun has made the largest sale of modern Chinese art with his work, ExecutionThis is the fourth place in our first ranking dating from 2007, ahead of Jeff Koons, who was the only artist to have his work sold for 4.1 million euros, i.e. more than 6 million dollars…
His painting is directly inspired by Goya’s Tres de Mayo, with the only differences being the invisible guns and the smiles of the condemned defying the executioners.
Execution de Yue Minjun
Tres de Mayo de Goya
With more than a billion inhabitants, some of them must feel lost in the mass, maybe they feel like disappearing, in any case, the young Chinese performance artist Liu Bolin hides and melts into the scenery to finally become part of it, no longer a man but a place, a thing, a solid but empty entity, lifeless but immortal.
All his work is done without retouching, and especially without post-production,…
JACK JACK PAN,… GAME OVER
Alexandre Fisselier
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