All kinds of contemporary artists in China are full of talents, whether they are realism, Cubism, abstraction, or surrealism, etc.; Zhang Yifa, in the fierce competition of contemporary art, his unique pop style has become the premier pop art representative.
His series of works "Taking the Scriptures", "The Age of Entertainment", and "One World and One Dream" are self-contained, and he uses the traditional stories that you and I know well, injecting them into sculptures to convey the deep meaning of irony; he is such a way that he goes his own way, and he uses art to explain the emptiness and mood of people at present.
His works always contain people's favorite topics: politics, ideals, human nature, his deep concern for social phenomena, Zhang Yifa has reshaped the characters in the well-known classical literature "Journey to the West", the four main characters and white horses have been shaped on a modern spiritual level, and the serious philosophy of life in the original work of "tempering and cultivating the right results" has been transformed into a modern temperament, creating a witty and relaxed modern sense. The reason why Zhang Yifa wants to create this feeling is not simply to spoof and dismantle the classics, but to present the cultural state from traditional values and modern people's lives in the form of stories.
Zhang Yifa was born in a civilized country with ancient rhyme and heavy culture, he saw many conflicts and contradictions of modern people with his true heart, and presented the psychological state of modern people in his sculptures one by one, perhaps this is his excellence, his excellent observation and artistic talent give him great sage achievements like Sun Wukong!
As a post-1980s born in a southern maritime city, Zhang Yifa has experienced a stronger stimulus of economic openness than inland people, coupled with the unique openness and inclusiveness of marine culture, Zhang Yifa's works are closely related to social trends and personal survival. Chinese character is cultivated in classical culture, the basic consensus of this nation mostly comes from the classical ideological system, to modern times, it is inevitable that the whole spiritual body will fall into an empty sense of dislocation, this sense of dislocation will create some confusing contradictions, Zhang Yifa chose the classical literature "Journey to the West" to visualize this contradiction.
Zhang Yifa uses common realistic sculpture techniques to combine the character images in fantasy novels with what he sees and feels in daily life. As a result, these well-known fantasy images, from the body shape to clothing, props, scenes, has become the most popular Pop Art art, no one in China today can be like Zhang Yifa, so good to transform traditional culture into popular art, and soon, with the layout of his international exhibitions, Sun Wukong is bound to become the king of international popular art, Zhang Yifa will write the legend of oriental traditional art!