Wang Guangyi - Wikipedia
Wang Guangyi (Chinese: 王广义; born 1957) is a Chinese artist. He is known as a leader of the new art movement that started in China after 1989, and for his Great Criticism series of paintings, which use images of propaganda from the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) and contemporary brand names from western advertising.
Wang Guangyi - 23 artworks - painting - WikiArt.org
Wang Guangyi (in Chinese:王广义, born 1957) is a Chinese artist. He is known as a leader of the new art movement that started in China after 1989, and for his Great Criticism series of paintings which use images of propaganda from the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) and contemporary brand names from western advertising.
The Dark Side of Everyday Life: Wang Guangyi’s Solo Exhibition ...
2023年10月9日 · Through painting, sculpture, and large-scale installations, Wang Guangyi delves into profound philosophical and spiritual inquiries, making him a significant protagonist in the history of Chinese contemporary art.
Wang Guangyi - Artnet
Wang Guangyi is a Chinese Political Pop artist. Throughout his paintings, he combines Maoist-era propaganda melded with Western-style advertisements of companies like Coca-Cola and Chanel to comment on the commercialization of contemporary Chinese culture.
Wang Guangyi » Saatchi Gallery
Though Wang Guangyi’s work has erroneously been associated with Chinese Political Pop, in reality one of the main themes of his art can be found in its relationship to the transcendent. Juxtaposing revolutionary images with consumer logos, Wang’s canvases provocate with their duplicitous message, highlighting the conflict between ...
Wang Guangyi Biography – Wang Guangyi on artnet
Painter Wang Guangyi (Chinese, b.1957) creates works in the Chinese style of Political Pop, fusing propaganda from the Cultural Revolution with American Pop Art aesthetics. Born in Harbin, China, Wang graduated from the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts in 1984, and grew up in an environment saturated with the propagandistic imagery of the Maoist ...
From the Archive – Glass interviews Wang Guangyi of the …
2016年7月15日 · Artist of Wizardry – Wang Guangyi, China’s leading protagonist of the Political Pop movement, speaks candidly about his life, his art – and his criticisms, not of Chinese communism, but of the Western love of consumerism.
Wang Guang-Yi – Eternity Gallery
Wang Guangyi repurposes historical Chinese propaganda posters into paintings that satirize the encounter between China’s communist history and the rise of Western influence through advertising. Associated with the “Political Pop” genre within the Chinese Contemporary Art Movement, Wang is best known for his “Great Criticism” series ...
Wang Guangyi | Makers | M+
A founding member of the Northern Art Group in the 1980s, he is a major figure of the Political Pop movement and is known for producing works that juxtapose propaganda images from the Cultural Revolution with contemporary Western advertising. Wang lives and works in Beijing.
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Wang Guangyi is the leading artist of the post-1989 art movement known as Political Pop. Painting Cultural Revolution icons in the style of American Pop art Wang combines imagery from propaganda and advertising, leveling the difference between two forms of culture.