Fang Lijun (Chinese: 方力钧; born 1963) is a Chinese artist based in Beijing. [1] He was born into a wealthy family with a high social status. In the 1990s, there was a cultural movement [2] in China referred to as Cynical Realism of which Fang Lijun was a member.

Fang Lijun is a contemporary Chinese painter and printmaker best known for his politically driven paintings which reflect on the history of 20th-century China. View Fang Lijun’s 681 artworks on artnet.

Fang Lijun (Chinese: 方力钧; born 1963) is a Chinese artist based in Beijing. He was born into a wealthy family with a high social status. In the 1990s, there was a cultural movement in China referred to as Cynical Realism of which Fang Lijun was a member.

2023年7月11日 · Famed Chinese artist Fang Lijun has been in the same studio for 30 years, moving into his Beijing studio in 1993. Over the decades that followed, Fang catapulted to a rare level of global fame, first coming to prominence in the 1990s as part of the Cynical Realism movement in the 1990s.

Fang Lijun, by placing ascending fresh flowers in his compositions, triggered people’s memories and, in order to recover the nature of these memories, he not only emphasized the children looking skywards, but even depicted them ascending into the heavens.

2023年10月15日 · Fang Lijun was one of the leading protagonists of the early 1990s Cynical Realist movement, a major art movement in China post-1989. His works captured the disillusionment of his generation and reflected the feeling of helplessness in Chinese society in the early 1990s.

Fang Lijun (b.1963, Hebei, China) graduated from the Department of Printmaking, Central Academy of Fine Arts. Fang is one of the earliest Chinese avant-garde artists to garner international attention in the 1990s.

One of the leading proponents of the early 1990s Cynical Realist movement, Fang Lijun’s work encapsulates the disillusionment of China’s youth; a generation defined by the events at Tiananmen Square and China’s internal domestic policies.

Fang Lijun (born 1963, Handan) graduated from the Print Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, in 1989. He is a representative artist of Cynical Realism, a major art movement in China post-1989.

2024年8月5日 · Fang Lijun is a seminal figure in the world of contemporary Chinese art. Born in 1963 in Handan, Hebei province, Fang's work has garnered international acclaim for its unique style and profound socio-political commentary.