#wang guangyi

[notclevr]

I was at the Tate Modern in London a few weeks ago and saw some amazing art. (I also went to The British Museum and The National Gallery but I guess those will need their own posts eventually.)

These were some of my favorites. (All photos are mine except as noted. Sometimes there was glare or it was a bad angle)

Lobster Telephone (also known as Aphrodisiac Telephone) by Salvador Dali

Eine Kleine Nachtmusik by Dorothea Tanning (museum photo)

Reborn Sounds of Childhood Dreams I by Ibrahim El-Salahi

Deification of a Soldier by Kikuji Yamashita

Kitchen-maids (also known as Les Filles de cuisine) by André Masson

Celebes by Max Ernst (museum photo)

Man with a Newspaper by René Magritte

Peg-Top by Hans Bellmer

Meem Two by Anwar Jalal Shemza

3Y 3B by Rasheed Araeen

Tol Pedn by John Tunnard

Dynamic Suprematism by Kazimir Malevich

No. 98 2478 Red/135 Green by Georges Vantongerloo

Whaam! by Roy Lichtenstein

Metamorphosis of Narcissus by Salvador Dalí

Sun-Man-Face II by Imre Bak

Machine No. 6 by Shinkichi Tajiri

Great Criticism - Pop by Wang Guangyi

A Tax Haven Run By Women by Monster Chetwynd

Intervention 15 and Intervention 27 by Edward Krasinski

[faggotfungus]

Red Rationality: Revision of the Idols by Wang Guangyi 王廣義 (Chinese, 1957) Oil on canvas (1987)

[jareckiworld]

Wang Guangyi (王廣義) — After Mona Lisa (from Post-Classical Series)  oil on canvas, 1987-1988.

[selfportraitsofcolor]

Wang Guangyi / 王广义, b. 1957 Everyday Life 1, 2, 3 and 4 / 日常生活1号、2号、3号、4号 China (2013) [Source]

Wikipedia says:

Wang Guangyi 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.

[sinetheta]

Great Criticism - Gucci. Wang Guangyi (王广义). Oil on canvas. 2005.

Wang Guangyi (王广义) is a new wave artist whose work responds to the radical political and social shifts in late 20th century China. Born into poverty, Wang spent his adolescence working in a rural village for three years during Cultural Revolution. Wang’s career initially started with painting propaganda posters in the early 1970s. When China’s art academies reopened in the 1980s, he applied to and attended the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts. His later works fused imagery of Chinese propaganda with that of American consumerism and, building a foundation for 1990s Political Pop.

Gucci is a painting from his well-known Great Criticism series that superimposes iconic logos of over appropriated propaganda imagery from the Cultural Revolution. China’s communist past and capitalist present clashed as consumerism permeated into China along with advertising of new luxury commodoties. In response to this contention, Wang questions the state of Chinese national identity in between ideologies by rendering Mao-imagery in the style of American Pop Art. 

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[thunderstruck9]

Wang Guangyi (Chinese, b. 1957), Aesthetics of War - Blue No. 3, 2006. Oil on canvas, 200 x 300 cm.

[topcat77]

Wang Guangyi 王广义

The Belief I, 2002

[themodernartists]

Wang Guangyi (b. 1957), Mao Zedong Ou, 1989. Oil on canvas.