Yang Mian’s Artwork: A Visual Journey in Artworks and Life of Chinese Visual Culture
This App contains all photographs of Yang Mian’s artworks since the 1990s. Yang’s works could be seen as a rearrangement on typical cultural phenomena that China uses images to deliver and convey civilization. Many of these pictures present as hints of his experiments on Chinese image dissembling in many periods. These images converted to artworks are classified in to many series: Beauty Standard, Architecture Standard, From China: Cultural Revolution, and CMYK.
This app also contains world-famous critics and interview articles published on TIME, Forbes Life on Yang’s arts and art experience as well as featured interpretation of Yang’s artistic creation and concept.
Behind his artworks, Yan Mian hope himself and his worKs
-to discuss in the process of world culture transmission, we use a virtual way to transmit social standard and culture and his concern of security.
-to beware at the age of flooded images, artworks shall not be a part of the flood of images but those featured with critical substance.
-to make it possible or right for original work to store and dissemble civilization in the realistic context of inglorious image dissembling.
-to remain a little bit respect and difficulty for Chinese society in storing and transmitting civilization.
-To challenge the upper limit of his own artworks in the fields of oil painting, sculptures, installation and architecture.
Vital and Interesting Personal Experience
-He was born in a traditional intellectual family and was sensitive and sentimental for his father was accused of rightist in his childhood. He decided not to be a painter against his father’s will but finally went to fine arts academy upon his father’s death.
-He graduated from the Oil Painting Department, Sichuang Fine Arts Institute, but keeps the lest mark left by Sichuang Fine Arts Institute. He takes efforts to build up an independent artistic value and academic career.
-He makes himself in the art other than the common artistic value. He lives in the social network but still keeps alert on it.
-He is the winner of the 1st Chinese Contemporary Art Award, and his works have been exhibited and collected worldwide. He loves architecture and life. He believes the taste is temperance.
App Features:
-112 pieces of artworks since the mid 1990s, and 18 pieces of high definition photographs.
20 super-size HD digital photographs regularly updated, containing Yang’s electronic signature;
-Yang’s Biography and resume;
-Sharing with friends on Twitter, Facebook and Sina Microblog;
-All artworks available for sale on Artdepot.cn
Notice:
The App is operated in iOS 4 or higher edition operation system. The digital artworks need network supporting for super-sized HD photographs. Please keep connected to the network while downloading.