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Yue Minjun, born in 1962 in Daqing, Heilongjiang, studied oil painting in the Fine Arts Department of Hebei Normal University in 1985, a leading figure in Chinese contemporary art and an internationally renowned artist.
Yue Minjun's works are collected by important art institutions, art galleries and museums at home and abroad, including the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco, the Museum of Architecture in Chicago, the Museum of Art in Denver, the Sowa Mitterrand Cultural Center in France, the Busan Museum of Art in South Korea, the CP Foundation in Indonesia, the M+ Museum of Visual Culture in Hong Kong, the Guangdong Museum of Art, and the Shenzhen Art Museum.
Yue Minjun "Paste-3" oil on canvas 60X50cm 2020
Yue Minjun "Fist Flower", oil on canvas, 170X140cm, 2020
Since the early 1990s, Yue Minjun has been working on canvas with an exaggerated "self-image", which has spread to his sculpture and printmaking in recent years. "It" sometimes appears independently, sometimes as a collective. "It" laughed, closed its eyes, and moved exaggeratedly, but confidently.
Yue Minjun "Paste-1" oil on canvas 170X140cm, 2019
Yue Minjun Three Musketeers, oil on canvas, 80x100cm, 2019
Yue Minjun,"Blue Sea"
Oil on canvas 250x200cm, 2018
In 2007, he appeared on the cover of Time Magazine and was elected "Time Magazine Person of the Year", and on the list of five global figures who won the award, Putin, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, Yue Minjun was the only Chinese and the only artist. Time magazine said of Yue Minjun: "If you think that China is closely related to the current situation and future of the world, then this artist is the person who depicts China."
Yue Minjun's "Resurrection from the Dead" oil on canvas 240 x 200cm, 2014
Yue Minjun "Eyes" oil on canvas 240x200cm, 2013
Yue Minjun "Bystander" oil on canvas oil painting 230 x 200cm, 2011
Yue Minjun", "Lonely Island", oil on canvas 300 x 300cm, 2010
Yue Minjun,"Rolling on the Grass"
Oil on canvas 280 x 400cm, 2009
Yue Minjun, "3009 AD"
Oil on canvas 300 x 400cm, 2008
Yue Minjun, "Memory-2", oil on canvas, 140x108cm, 2000
In 2020, Yue Minjun lived for several months in Chuncheng, Yunnan, on the border of Yunnan, China, perhaps this flower-rich city penetrated the haze of the epidemic and brought inspiration to the artist, Yue Minjun made an important breakthrough and created a series of "Flowers" works.
Yue Minjun "Hibiscus Sunflower"
Oil on canvas 200 × 250 cm 2021
Yue Minjun "Chandelier Fusang"
Oil on canvas 70 × 90 cm 2021
Yue Minjun "Lilies", oil on canvas, 120X100cm, 2020
Yue Minjun "Moon Season Flower", oil on canvas, 250X200cm, 2020
Yue Minjun "Fuso Flower", oil on canvas, 150X120cm, 2020
Yue Minjun "Roses", oil on canvas, 150X120cm, 2020
"The blooming flowers are beautiful, but this beauty seems to be floating on the surface, and what may be hidden and hidden behind it makes it impossible for us to see the world and our current situation." For many years, Yue Minjun has used his paintings to express the problems behind the reality he sees, related to society and culture.