Huang Yan

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Huang Yan is a contemporary multimedia artist from Beijing, China. He currently lectures at Changchun University. He combines painting, photography and sculpture to create his artwork. Yan is most famous for using human beings as canvas, painting landscapes, patterns and flowers on people's faces and bodies. The photographs of the painted people becomes the artwork.

Self Portrait

Limited Edition Print - Mixed Media

USD 1,250

Much of his landscape paintings are influenced by the Song dynasty and he also uses zen and Buddhist themes in his work. One of the most famous artists in China today, Mr. Huang who started out as a poet, has had exhibitions of his work all over the world. His biggest controversy came in 2014, when his porcelain busts of Mao weren't allowed to leave China for an exhibition in France. The busts were considered to be disrespectful to the deceased communist leader. Huang Yan is also a businessman and author. He operates his own art gallery, Must Be Contemporary Art, and writes mostly about fellow contemporary Chinese artists. His wife, Zhang Tiemei, is also an artist and they often work together.

China / male artist / Body Art / Chinese Contemporary art / Performance art / Appropriation / Contemporary Art / Political pop / Activist art

ARTWORKS BY Huang Yan

Huang Yan

Chinese Shanshui Tattoo, 1999

Photography

Photograph

EUR 3,670

Huang Yan

Face Tattoo , 2005

Photography

Photograph

USD 16,000

Huang Yan

Landscape

Photography

Lambda Print

EUR 10,150

Huang Yan

Bird Tiantan No.1, 2006

Photography

Photograph

USD 4,850

Huang Yan

Pinaster Landscape Diptych, 2007

Photography

Photograph

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Huang Yan

Mao With Dragons, 2008

Limited Edition Print

Mixed Media

USD 950

Huang Yan

Temple Of Heaven, 2008

Limited Edition Print

Giclée Printing

USD 940

Huang Yan

Self Portrait, 2008

Limited Edition Print

Mixed Media

USD 1,250

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Chinese Shanshui Tattoo, 1999

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What is appropriation?

The use of images or pre-existing objects with application of little or completely no transformation to them. It has played a very significant role in the history of visual, musical, performing and literary arts. In visual arts for instance, to appropriate means properly adopting, sampling, recycling or borrowing aspects(even entire form) of artificial visual culture.

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