Yue Minjun is a Chinese artist. In 1985, Yue graduated from the Oil Painting Department of Hebei Normal University, and he found a job teaching drawing at North China College. Yue living and working in Beijing now. The best known of him is oil paintings that drawing himself frozen in laughing face. He was inspired by a painting by Geng Jianyi, which is Geng's own laughing face. He has used this signature image in sculpture, watercolor and print, as well as on canvas. His work is often termed Cynical Realist. This movement was not just for creating an art form or style, the artists' concern was that their activity be a part of the social change. These artists created works that exposed both their suffering and cover it with irony. Some time, his art included some Chinese culture.
Like those sculptures have the same idea with the terracotta army which is very old Chinese sculpture.
I like his work because it is fun to see everything in his laughing faces, but it also has a deeper meaning behind his laughing faces.
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