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.
Surplus Value (Beige) Contemporary Mixed Media Sculpture, Signed
By Yue Minjun
Located in Bristol, GB
Mixed materials (wood & copper) Edition 4 of 75 Signed on the base, and numbered on the base and the accompanying insert card Mint. Small chip on the wooden box bottom back corner, o...
Copper
Surplus Value (Brown) Mixed Media Sculpture, Signed, Edition 4 of 75
By Yue Minjun
Located in Bristol, GB
Mixed materials (wood & copper) Edition 4 of 75 Signed on the base, and numbered on the base and the accompanying insert card Mint. Small chip on the wooden box bottom back corner, o...
Copper
$2,200
H 12 in W 9 in D 7 in
Surf 014 - Original Mixed Media Figurative Rock Sculpture For Table or Desk
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Kevin Perrault’s sculptural work exists at the intersection of permanence and play, blending monumentality with quiet intimacy. Working primarily in copper and stone, his figurative ...
Stone, Copper
$2,450
H 13 in W 7 in D 4 in
Climb 001 - Original Mixed Media Figurative Geode Sculpture For Table or Desk
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Kevin Perrault’s sculptural work exists at the intersection of permanence and play, blending monumentality with quiet intimacy. Working primarily in copper and stone, his figurative ...
Stone, Copper
$1,725
H 16 in W 7 in D 5 in
Astro 015 - Original Mixed Media Figurative Moon Rock Table or Desk Sculpture
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Kevin Perrault’s sculptural work exists at the intersection of permanence and play, blending monumentality with quiet intimacy. Working primarily in copper and stone, his figurative ...
Stone, Copper
$9,600Sale Price|20% Off
H 29 in W 21 in D 5 in
Keyboard 281 - Mixed Media Metal Wood Stone Contemporary Art Wall Sculpture
Located in New York, NY
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Stone, Metal
$48,000
H 73 in W 26 in D 19 in
Feminist Figurative Mixed Media Contemporary Sculpture Warrior Waging Peace 1284
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Warrior Waging Peace: Addressing Strength 1284 - Feminist Figurative Mixed Media Black and Colorful Contemporary Sculpture Free-standing contemporary sculpture with v...
Metal
$1,200
H 15 in W 5 in D 3.5 in
Astro 014 - Original Mixed Media Figurative Rock Sculpture For Table or Desk
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Kevin Perrault’s sculptural work exists at the intersection of permanence and play, blending monumentality with quiet intimacy. Working primarily in copper and stone, his figurative ...
Stone, Copper
$52,000
H 53.5 in W 18 in D 8.5 in
Linda Stein, Knight of New Beginnings 1294 - Contemporary Mixed Media Sculpture
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein started her Knights of Protection series in 2002 after being forced to evacuate her New York downtown studio for a year post-9/11. Stein's Knights are shield-like forms ...
Stone, Metal
$1,125
H 10 in W 4 in D 4 in
Secret 003 - Original Mixed Media Figurative Rock Sculpture For Table or Desk
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Kevin Perrault’s sculptural work exists at the intersection of permanence and play, blending monumentality with quiet intimacy. Working primarily in copper and stone, his figurative ...
Stone, Copper
$12,000Sale Price|20% Off
H 26 in W 25 in D 12 in
Three Bells 326 - Mixed Media Metal Wood Stone Contemporary Art Wall Sculpture
Located in New York, NY
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Stone, Metal
$14,400Sale Price|20% Off
H 42 in W 31 in D 12 in
Boom Box 277 - Mixed Media Metal Wood Stone Contemporary Art Wall Sculpture
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Boom Box 277 - Mixed Media Metal Wood Stone Contemporary Art Wall Sculpture In the 1990s Linda Stein began to work on a series called Blades, sculptural works that inco...
Stone, Metal
$2,255
H 29.5 in W 12 in D 10 in
Morning Healing, Hand Paint, Patinated Copper Skin, Indian Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
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Stone, Granite, Copper
$2,100
H 41 in W 17 in D 3 in
Flight Unfolding - brass, copper, stone, nylon, contemporary wall sculpture
By Alice Vander Vennen
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This mixed media contemporary assemblage resembles a vessel and is designed to be hung on a wall. When Alice Vander Vennen sits down to create a sculptural composition, she thinks o...
Stone, Copper