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Article: Chinese contemporary art scene reviews 30-year evolution (2)
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- December 20, 2007
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Chinese contemporary art scene reviews 30-year evolution (2)
"85 NEW WAVE"
Before 1985, art was still closely tied to politics in China, but
with more arts graduates going abroad, artists started to "reinvent
their own culture, breaking free from decades of socialist realism
to begin a process of intense experimentation," Fei says.
The change was prominent in the work of artist Fang Lijun who
dramatically shifted his style from realistic depictions of peasant
farmers to abstract and conceptual art in his trademark painting of
exaggerated and grotesque bald-headed "battle crying" farmers who
seemed at a loss facing the world, which influenced many later
artists.
More than 20 years later, Fei ...