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The first monograph on important Franco-Chinese contemporary artist Yan Pei-Ming, whose work blends Eastern and Western cultural influences. Yan Pei-Ming is one of the most important figures in contemporary art. His large-scale, monochrome paintings—portraits of politically charged figures such as Mao, Pope John Paul II, Barack Obama, and Vladimir Putin, as well as cultural icons Marilyn Monroe, Michael Jackson, Bruce Lee, and Picasso—are the result of a powerful combination of conceptual rigor and the passionate, dynamic gestures with which he "attacks" the canvas. Having grown up in Shanghai during the Chinese Cultural Revolution and resettled in Dijon, France, Yan Pei-Ming’s work st...
Chinese painter Yan Pei-Ming (1960 Shanghai) became famous for his enormous portraits of Chairman Mao, the Pope or Kung Fu-star Bruce Lee. Relying on a limited palette of colors, his paintings are striking because of their balance between figuration and abstraction. This book presents all his major workgroups 1998â__2005: portraits, landscapes, still lives and erotic depictions and "death pictures".
How the valorization of artistic and political dissidence has contributed to the rise of Chinese contemporary art in the West. Interest in Chinese contemporary art increased dramatically in the West shortly after the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests. Sparked by political sympathy and the mediatized response to the event, Western curators, critics, and art historians were quick to view the new art as an expression of dissident resistance to the Chinese regime. In this book, Marie Leduc proposes that this attribution of political dissidence is not only the result of latent Cold War perceptions about China, but also indicative of the art world's demand for artistically and politically provocative...
In this exhibition catalogue, Chinese painter Yan Pei-Ming investigates the nebulous concepts of human virtue and memory--especially in relation to age, power and society. Life Souvenir presents images of infants and soldiers, continuing Yan's careerlong interest in history, incorruptibility and, above all else, human emotion.
Franco-Chinese painter Yan Pei-Ming (born 1960) audaciously brings together paintings of popes, female nudes and erotic scenes. These juxtapositions refer to a "date" between power, women and painting. By bringing together these subjects, Pei-Ming reflects how image hierarchies have been abolished in our current age.
This volume is published for the largest exhibition to date on Chinese painter Yan Pei-Ming (born 1960), who is known for his history paintings and monumental gestural portraits of intimate subjects as well as public figures such as Mao, Putin and the Pope.