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Essay/article Exploring the Art Making Practice and Works of Yue Minjun (Contemporary Chinese Artist)

Visual Arts

7 Pages Essays / Projects Year: Pre-2021

INTRO: What is a Mask? Is it a facade presented to the world, only to disguise the true meaning lying just below the surface, or are they simply harmless caricatures intended to amuse or frighten others. Renowned Chinese contemporary artist, Yue Minjun, known for his focus on self portraiture, not only grapples with the concept of a mask, but centers his works around an unchanging smiling figure. On first inspection, Minjun’s cartoon like worlds depicted in each of his works, allow the audience to explore a place where absurdity is considered a norm. However, his vibrant blue skies and bubblegum-pink characters, although seemingly amusing, pose a sense of underlying uneasiness and cynicism. Positioned in grotesque poses, the disturbing figures embody more than straddling lightheartedness and absurdity. While analysing the figures doubled over in hysterics, it soon becomes clear, that the works aren’t amusing at all, and is in fact centered around deeper issues. Encouraging the viewers to look beyond his disturbingly ecstatic mask like persona, to discover the true, usually political, meaning behind his work.


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