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Fang Lijun

Fang Lijun (Born 1963) is active/lives in China.  Fang Lijun is known for Bald figure social narrative painting, abstraction.

One of the leading proponents of the early 1990s Cynical Realist movement, Fang Lijun did work which encapsulates the disillusionment of China's youth; a generation defined by the events at Tiananmen Square and China's internal domestic policies. Constructed around loose narratives Fang's images personalize sentiments of disenchantment, angst, and rebellion; his fictional suggestions conveyed through his illustrative style and re-occurring bald-headed protagonist.

Fang's practice exhibits a rarefied technical skill rigorously studied through his Social Realist training; his combination of this aesthetic with references to contemporary comics, folk art, and dynastic painting characterize a national identity in flux, distilling a position of integrity from tradition and the modern world.

Fang's monumental sized prints revive the ancient Asian practice of woodblock printing -- a complicated and exacting process of carving a 'negative' image into a panel, coating the surfac   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 6532 characters.]  Artist bio

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