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Fang Lijun | Series 2 No. 2 (1991-1992) | Oil on Canvas | 200 x 230 cm


Chinese artists


Artist Fang Lijun As one of the opponents of the first ‘Cyni- cal Realistic Movement’, the work of Fang Lijun shows the disappointments of China’s youth, a generation that is also defined by the events of 1989 and internal politics in China.


The themes in Fang Lijun’s paintings are built up around a variety of stories in which the human figure is almost always central. Fang Lijun’s paintings show personal elements of fear, rebelliousness and lack of interest. Fang Lijun’s dominant themes in 1990 had to do with bald young men, calm colors and landscapes, but more recently these themes evolved into progressive young


Yang Shaobin | Fighting no.18 (1998) | Oil on Canvas | 120 x 150 cm


figures, lively colors and a clouded sky. Fang Lijun believes that the most powerful things are those of which you feel that they could happen, but have not yet happened. The atmosphere on the blue painting is very calm, but the ‘balding clones’ that run around under the clear blue sky are ‘social drop outs’ and problem makers. The people in the painting could be a nightmare to a traditional Chinese family, a latent threat for the government order and are contradictory to the promises of communism.


Artist Yang Shaobin The basic inspiration for the paintings of Yang Shaobin originates from the idea that apart from physical violence there are more cruel forms of violence. A form of violence that appears softer, but is in fact much more scary. This power struggle can be more horrendous than the power struggle that is inflicted by physical violence. It is a power struggle of political intimidation and the loss of the feeling of freedom.


An image of out of proportion bodies with wounded faces , a fist, biting of ears and grabbing of human flesh is shown in the painting. Yang Shaobin controls the esthetics to create moral inequality and confusion. He uses figures and shapes in such a way that it leaves the viewer with a non-realistic feeling, a kind of alarm bell and fear that goes directly to the soul.


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