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Fang Lijun, born 1963      Cynical Realism.

Fang Lijun, born 1963
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Fang Lijun belongs to the generation born during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Together with other Chinese artists he developed a style called "cynical realism". Today Fang Lijun's art works are bought for record prices at internationally renowned auction houses.
Fang Lijun Essay

Summer - by Zhou Lu      Chinese Master Print.

Summer - by Zhou Lu
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Zhou Lu has created a large series showing one or more bald-headed boys in a scene that is typical for today's China. Zhou Lu, born 1973, experienced as a small boy the era of the Cultural Revolution. He remembers the daily military-type physical exercises at nursery school and school, the omni-present Mao propaganda.
Summer by Zhou Lu

Zhou Lu - Children      Cynical Realism

Zhou Lu - Children
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Zhou Lu can be regarded as a representative of an art style called "Cynical Realism" - unique to contemporary Chinese art of the years after 2000. On this page we represent four new prints in his series of bald-headed children.
Zhou Lu comments new art prints

Zhou Lu - Statement      Cynical Realism.

Zhou Lu - Statement
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Zhou Lu, born 1973, is a young Chinese printmaker who creates art prints in a rather unique style. He uses bald-headed characters that look like vicious, grown-up boys. He shows them in all kinds of outfits, roles and situations that deal with the craziness of today's Chinese society and China's past under the rule of Chairman Mao Zedong. Mr. Zhou Lu's art style is part of a contemporary Chinese art movement known as cynical realism.
Statement by Zhou Lu

Zhou Lu, born 1973      Cynical Realism.

Zhou Lu, born 1973
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When you receive hundreds of art prints - new and old - every month you take a certain attitude of calm contemplation. But when we at artelino saw an art print by Mr. Zhou Lu for the first time, we became really excited. We saw it in the official catalog of the 17th National Print Exhibition of China, the most prestigious exhibition opportunity for contemporary Chinese artists.
Zhou Lu Résumé