Yang Shaobin: Essence of Violence : Chinese Artists of Today

Name: Yang Shaobin: Essence of Violence : Chinese Artists of Today
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ISBN: 9787543459670

ISBN-10: 7543459671

ISBN-13: 9787543459670

Edition: 2008

Authors: Zhang Qunsheng, Yang Shaobin, Pi Li

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Born in 1963 in Hebei Province, China, Yang Shaobin makes realistic figurative paintings that often disintegrate into Francis Bacon-esque Surrealism. An untitled work from 2007, for example, depicts a man's head floating disembodied on a large dried-blood-colored canvas. The top of the man's head is rendered realistically, but the bottom half of his face is obfuscated by expressionistic whirls of paint. "DNA" (2005), however, is a Social Realist-style tableaux of historical figures arranged in front of a bright blue sky. Though he began his career as a Realist, Yang began experimenting with this present hybrid of realism and abstraction in 1998. Critic Sebastian Preuss has written of Yang's…

Book details

List price: $90.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Timezone 8 Limited
Publication date: 3/1/2008
Binding: Book, Other
Pages: 246
Size: 10.75" wide x 14.50" long x 1.75" tall
Weight: 6.490
Language: English