Renowned Chinese artist Yue Minjun has become the latest target among the nationalistic internet influencers and netizens in China, some of whom have accused him of insulting the country and ...

If the lesson last week was “Don’t laugh about the PLA,” this week’s message seems to be, “Don’t even crack a smile.” Some of the paintings currently being criticized are from “Land, Sea, and Air,” a ...

Yue Minjun, “Smiles are the soul’s kisses” (2006), lithography on paper (image via carmichaelgallery.com) LOS ANGELES — Things are not what they seem in Culver City’s Carmichael Gallery. At first ...

For two decades, Yue Minjun’s grinning self-portraits have been celebrated as one of the most recognizable icons of Chinese contemporary art. His pink-skinned caricatures, frozen in hysterical ...

210 x 260 cm. (82.7 x 102.4 in.) Jaimy Favela Le, "The Boisterous Smiles Of Yue Minjun's Painted Figures Invoke Pondering", Visual Atelier 8, 22 April 2020, https ...

Lithograph, Aluminum, Artist's Book 20 color lithographs, aluminum engraved, bas relief portfolio case, book of poems 47.25 x 31.5 in. (120.02 x 80.01 cm.) Signed, stamped and inscribed; and numbered ...

After a 10-year hiatus, Yue Minjun is set to unveil a new solo exhibition titled “Smile at the Flower Sermon.” Housed at Tang Contemporary Art, the acclaimed Chinese artist presents his iconic ...

Presenting a contemporary take on traditional Chinese beliefs and religion, Yue Minjun provides a characteristic self-portrait set against a backdrop of flying white cranes. Typical of Yue's ...

Yue Minjun is part of China's Cynical Realism movement and is one of the most exciting modern artists to come out of China. I took his distinct style and decided to showcase it in a hardcover artist ...

Yue Minjun’s Smile-ism series studies the “spiritual vacuum” the artist observes in Post-Communist China. The works in the series feature cartoonish, colorful, and exaggerated self-portraits. While he ...

After a 10-year hiatus, Yue Minjun is set to unveil a new solo exhibition titled “Smile at the Flower Sermon.” Housed at Tang Contemporary Art, the acclaimed Chinese artist presents his iconic ...