Sun Yuan

From Asian Art Documentation

Sun Yuan (b.1972, Beijing, China)

孫原 (スン・ユアン)

image source, the-artist.org:[1]

[edit] Biography

Sun Yuan is one of those artists who is extensively involved in many art exhibitions, and who quickly emerged as a cutting - edge artist. Sun Yan, a very tall and strong guy, grew up in Beijing and graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts(Zhongyang meishu Xueyuan) in 1991. He specialises in oil painting.

His oil painting presents a sensual feeling, his subjects are often bright flowers and hip beauties, somewhat deformed and exaggerated figures, like cartoon images. His oil painting appears as expressionist's vision and is toned with contemporary Chinese images, such as thickly makeup cover girls and fashionable celebrities. Many of his works are associated with food, wine, fruit, ice cream, water, and floating beauties, which symbolize the luxury and tastelessness of contemporary Chinese urban life, somewhat cynically and metaphorically.

[edit] External links

• China Gallery:[2]

• Peng Yu and Sun Yuan, Column of human fat at 2001 at 2001 Yokohama Triennale:[3]

• Peng Yu and Sun Yuan, Farmer Du Wenda's Flying Saucer at 2005 Venice Biennale:[4]

[edit] References

Zhang Zhaohui, Sun Yuan: Testing the Public with Art:[5]