Yue Minjun Portrait Prints
Chinese, b. 1962
YUE MINJUN Yue Min-Jun (born 1962, Daqing, China) is one of the leading Chinese artists. He is best known for oil paintings depicting formations of his laughing self-portraits in various settings. His iconography is easily recognisable, it challenges social and cultural conventions by depicting objects and political issues in a radical, abstract, ironic and cynical manner.
Yue Min-Jun initially started painting as a hobby, subsequently he graduated from the Oil Painting Department of Hebei Normal University, China in 1985. In the 90s he joined an artist community in Yuan Ming Yuan, a village near Beijing where he began to form his style and iconography. The paintings, sculptures, and installations of Yue Minjun feature uniform laughing pink faces, which appear to be self-portraits. Through various symbols, metaphors, signs, or through depictions of daily life the artist constructs various realities against which the laughing figures are rendered.
"In my work, laughter is a representation of a state of helplessness, lack of strength and participation, with the absence of our rights that society has imposed on us." —Yue Minjun
Yue became famous after his participation in the 48th Venice Biennale in 1999, which granted him access to international art. One of the best-known paintings by Yue Minjun and an icon for modern Chinese art and the Cynical Realism movement is Execution. It was painted in 1995 and is generally regarded as a reaction to the Tiananmen Square crackdown of 1989, as it shows several laughing men in front of an execution squad. The cloned all smiling Minjun self-portraits have become known in the art world as the "Silly Man". As the preparation for his paintings, the artist uses photographs of himself being photographed in various poses. This approach reflects the self-irony of the artist. Yue Minjun is often classified as part of the Chinese "Cynical Realist" movement, however, the artist does not support such attribution. Nevertheless, Yue often challenges social and cultural conventions by depicting objects and political issues in a radical, abstract, ironic and cynical manner.(Biography provided by Weng Contemporary (ArtXX AG))
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Artist: Yue Minjun
Ingres & I, Yue Minjun- Contemporary Art, Lithograph, Limited Edition, Chinese
By Yue Minjun
Located in Zug, CH
Yue Minjun, Ingres and I
Contemporary, 21st Century, Lithograph, Limited Edition, Chinese
Lithograph
Edition of 130
80 × 120 cm (47 1/5 × 31 1/2 in)
Signed and numbered, accompanied ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Yue Minjun Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Fighting, Yue Minjun - Art, Lithograph, Limited Edition, Chinese Art, Print
By Yue Minjun
Located in Zug, CH
Yue Minjun, Fighting
Contemporary, 21st Century, Lithograph, Limited Edition, Chinese
Lithograph
Edition of 130
80 x 120 cm (47 1/5 × 31 1/2 in)
Signed and numbered, accompanied by C...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Yue Minjun Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Mushroom Cloud, Yue Minjun- Art, Lithograph, Limited Edition, Chinese
By Yue Minjun
Located in Zug, CH
Yue Minjun, Mushroom Cloud
Contemporary, 21st Century, Lithograph, Limited Edition, Chinese
Lithograph
Edition of 130
120 × 80cm (47 1/5 × 31 1/2 in)
Signed and numbered, accompanied...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Yue Minjun Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Remarkable People, Yue Minjun- Art, Lithograph, Limited Edition, Chinese
By Yue Minjun
Located in Zug, CH
Yue Minjun, Remarkable People
Contemporary, 21st Century, Lithograph, Limited Edition, Chinese
Lithograph
Edition of 130
80 × 120 cm (47 1/5 × 31 1/2 in)
Signed and numbered, accompa...
Category
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Materials
Lithograph
Paean on Grassland, Yue Minjun - Art, Lithograph, Limited Edition, China, Print
By Yue Minjun
Located in Zug, CH
Yue Minjun, Paean on Grassland
Contemporary, 21st Century, Lithograph, Limited Edition, Chinese
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80 x 120 cm (47 1/5 × 31 1/2 in)
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Garbage Hill, Yue Minjun - Art, Lithograph, Limited Edition, Chinese Art, Print
By Yue Minjun
Located in Zug, CH
Yue Minjun, Garbage Hill
Contemporary, 21st Century, Lithograph, Limited Edition, Chinese
Lithograph
Edition of 130
80 x 120 cm (47 1/5 × 31 1/2 in)
Signed and numbered, accompanied ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Yue Minjun Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Backyard Garden, Yue Minjun - Art, Lithograph, Limited Edition, China Art, Print
By Yue Minjun
Located in Zug, CH
Yue Minjun, Backyard Garden
Contemporary, 21st Century, Lithograph, Limited Edition, Chinese
Lithograph
Edition of 130
80 x 120 cm (47 1/5 × 31 1/2 in)
Signed and numbered, accompani...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Yue Minjun Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Birds of Peace, Yue Minjun- Contemporary Art, Lithograph, Limited Edition, China
By Yue Minjun
Located in Zug, CH
Yue Minjun, Birds of Peace
Contemporary, 21st Century, Lithograph, Limited Edition, Chinese
Lithograph
Edition of 130
80 × 120 cm (47 1/5 × 31 1/2 in)
Signed and numbered, accompanie...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Yue Minjun Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Birds of Peace, Yue Minjun- Contemporary Art, Lithograph, Limited Edition, China
By Yue Minjun
Located in Zug, CH
Yue Minjun, Birds of Peace
Contemporary, 21st Century, Lithograph, Limited Edition, Chinese
Lithograph
Edition of 130
80 × 120 cm (47 1/5 × 31 1/2 in)
Signed and numbered, accompanied by Certificate of Authenticity
In mint condition, as acquired from the publisher
PLEASE NOTE: Edition numbers could vary from the one shown in the pictures.
The pictures shown are only for illustrative reasons, the piece is offered unframed.
In fantastical paintings populated with heightened, hysterical self-portraits, Yue Minjun satirizes contemporary society and art historical tropes. Yue paints himself in fluorescent hues with a gaping grin. He occasionally multiplies his likeness, making his compositions even more menacing; his style has made him a pioneer of China’s Cynical Realism movement. Yue’s influences include Chinese socialist realism, Surrealism, and European classical paintings. He studied oil painting at Hebei Normal University in Shijiazhuang and has exhibited in Hong Kong, Berlin, Shenzhen, Shanghai, London, Basel, and New York. Yue has been the subject of numerous institutional shows at venues such as the Macao Museum, the ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, the National Art Museum of China, the Kunstmuseum Bonn, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Bern.
YUE MINJUN
Yue Min-Jun (born 1962, Daqing, China) is one of the leading Chinese artists. He is best known for oil paintings depicting formations of his laughing self-portraits in various settings. His iconography is easily recognisable, it challenges social and cultural conventions by depicting objects and political issues in a radical, abstract, ironic and cynical manner.
Yue Min-Jun initially started painting as a hobby, subsequently he graduated from the Oil Painting Department of Hebei Normal University, China in 1985. In the 90s he joined an artist community in Yuan Ming Yuan, a village near Beijing where he began to form his style and iconography. The paintings, sculptures, and installations of Yue Minjun feature uniform laughing pink faces, which appear to be self-portraits. Through various symbols, metaphors, signs, or through depictions of daily life the artist constructs various realities against which the laughing figures are rendered.
"In my work, laughter is a representation of a state of helplessness, lack of strength and participation, with the absence of our rights that society has imposed on us." —Yue Minjun
Yue became famous after his participation in the 48th Venice Biennale in 1999, which granted him access to international art. One of the best-known paintings by Yue Minjun and an icon for modern Chinese art and the Cynical Realism movement is Execution. It was painted in 1995 and is generally regarded as a reaction to the Tiananmen Square...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Yue Minjun Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Fighting, Yue Minjun - Art, Lithograph, Limited Edition, Chinese Art, Print
By Yue Minjun
Located in Zug, CH
Yue Minjun, Fighting
Contemporary, 21st Century, Lithograph, Limited Edition, Chinese
Lithograph
Edition of 130
80 x 120 cm (47 1/5 × 31 1/2 in)
Signed and numbered, accompanied by Certificate of Authenticity
In mint condition, as acquired from the publisher
PLEASE NOTE: Edition numbers could vary from the one shown in the pictures.
The pictures shown are only for illustrative reasons, the piece is offered unframed.
In fantastical paintings populated with heightened, hysterical self-portraits, Yue Minjun satirizes contemporary society and art historical tropes. Yue paints himself in fluorescent hues with a gaping grin. He occasionally multiplies his likeness, making his compositions even more menacing; his style has made him a pioneer of China’s Cynical Realism movement. Yue’s influences include Chinese socialist realism, Surrealism, and European classical paintings. He studied oil painting at Hebei Normal University in Shijiazhuang and has exhibited in Hong Kong, Berlin, Shenzhen, Shanghai, London, Basel, and New York. Yue has been the subject of numerous institutional shows at venues such as the Macao Museum, the ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, the National Art Museum of China, the Kunstmuseum Bonn, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Bern.
“[...] I choose to paint laughter, to communicate a sense of pleasure and happiness, but actually, it hides a double perspective of drama and suffering.„
—Yue Minjun
YUE MINJUN
Yue Min-Jun (born 1962, Daqing, China) is one of the leading Chinese artists. He is best known for oil paintings depicting formations of his laughing self-portraits in various settings. His iconography is easily recognisable, it challenges social and cultural conventions by depicting objects and political issues in a radical, abstract, ironic and cynical manner.
Yue Min-Jun initially started painting as a hobby, subsequently he graduated from the Oil Painting Department of Hebei Normal University, China in 1985. In the 90s he joined an artist community in Yuan Ming Yuan, a village near Beijing where he began to form his style and iconography. The paintings, sculptures, and installations of Yue Minjun feature uniform laughing pink faces, which appear to be self-portraits. Through various symbols, metaphors, signs, or through depictions of daily life the artist constructs various realities against which the laughing figures are rendered.
"In my work, laughter is a representation of a state of helplessness, lack of strength and participation, with the absence of our rights that society has imposed on us." —Yue Minjun
Yue became famous after his participation in the 48th Venice Biennale in 1999, which granted him access to international art. One of the best-known paintings by Yue Minjun and an icon for modern Chinese art and the Cynical Realism movement is Execution. It was painted in 1995 and is generally regarded as a reaction to the Tiananmen Square...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Yue Minjun Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Mushroom Cloud, Yue Minjun- Art, Lithograph, Limited Edition, Chinese
By Yue Minjun
Located in Zug, CH
Yue Minjun, Mushroom Cloud
Contemporary, 21st Century, Lithograph, Limited Edition, Chinese
Lithograph
Edition of 130
120 × 80cm (47 1/5 × 31 1/2 in)
Signed...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Yue Minjun Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Ingres & I, Yue Minjun- Contemporary Art, Lithograph, Limited Edition, Chinese
By Yue Minjun
Located in Zug, CH
Yue Minjun, Ingres and I
Contemporary, 21st Century, Lithograph, Limited Edition, Chinese
Lithograph
Edition of 130
80 × 120 cm (47 1/5 × 31 1/2 in)
Signed and numbered, accompanied ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Yue Minjun Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Backyard Garden, Yue Minjun - Art, Lithograph, Limited Edition, China Art, Print
By Yue Minjun
Located in Zug, CH
Yue Minjun, Backyard Garden
Contemporary, 21st Century, Lithograph, Limited Edition, Chinese
Lithograph
Edition of 130
80 x 120 cm (47 1/5 × 31 1/2 in)
Signed and numbered, accompanied by Certificate of Authenticity
In mint condition, as acquired from the publisher
PLEASE NOTE: Edition numbers could vary from the one shown in the pictures.
The pictures shown are only for illustrative reasons, the piece is offered unframed.
Backyard Garden belongs to the set of twenty lithographs from the “Snatched Ecstasy of Yue Minjun”, which comes as a limited edition of 130 rare books. The work of Yue Minjun is instantly recognizable with its uniform laughing faces, the artist's faces. Minjun creates various realities against which the laughing figures are rendered, thus creating ambiguous images, often with the sinister atmosphere, which comes as his personal cynical reaction to various social and political dimensions of contemporary Chinese realities. Immediately humorous and sympathetic, Yue Minjun’s paintings offer a light-hearted approach to philosophical enquiry and contemplation of existence. Yue’s self-portraits have been describe by theorist Li Xianting as “a self-ironic response to the spiritual vacuum and folly of modern-day China”, thus the acidic tones and commercialized vacuity of his works are used to underscore the insincerity of his figures’ mirth.
“Art should be an expression of one's particular feelings and should be direct and deep. So I drew one person, and then added another and another until there were crowds of them. Then I felt my emotions to be fully expressed.„
—Yue Minjun
YUE MINJUN
Yue Min-Jun (born 1962, Daqing, China) is one of the leading Chinese artists. He is best known for oil paintings depicting formations of his laughing self-portraits in various settings. His iconography is easily recognisable, it challenges social and cultural conventions by depicting objects and political issues in a radical, abstract, ironic and cynical manner.
Yue Min-Jun initially started painting as a hobby, subsequently he graduated from the Oil Painting Department of Hebei Normal University, China in 1985. In the 90s he joined an artist community in Yuan Ming...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Yue Minjun Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Paean on Grassland, Yue Minjun - Art, Lithograph, Limited Edition, China, Print
By Yue Minjun
Located in Zug, CH
Yue Minjun, Paean on Grassland
Contemporary, 21st Century, Lithograph, Limited Edition, Chinese
Lithograph
Edition of 130
80 x 120 cm (47 1/5 × 31 1/2 in)
Signed and numbered, accomp...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Yue Minjun Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Garbage Hill, Yue Minjun - Art, Lithograph, Limited Edition, Chinese Art, Print
By Yue Minjun
Located in Zug, CH
Yue Minjun, Garbage Hill
Contemporary, 21st Century, Lithograph, Limited Edition, Chinese
Lithograph
Edition of 130
80 x 120 cm (47 1/5 × 31 1/2 in)
Signed and numbered, accompanied ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Yue Minjun Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Remarkable People, Yue Minjun- Art, Lithograph, Limited Edition, Chinese
By Yue Minjun
Located in Zug, CH
Yue Minjun, Remarkable People
Contemporary, 21st Century, Lithograph, Limited Edition, Chinese
Lithograph
Edition of 130
80 × 120 cm (47 1/5 × 31 1/2 in)
Signed and numbered, accompa...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Yue Minjun Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
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