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Yue Minjun, One laugh at indifference

Daqing 1962, China, Yue Minjun is one of the most recognized and established Chinese artists in the world of contemporary art, his works are often difficult not to look at because they have a fairly attractive color and is accompanied by many self-portraits that are literally laughing out loud in a world full of indifference.

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This artist shares with other counterparts of his country a series stage in which they were repressed artistically only to generate propagandistic content, the end of these restrictions added to the opening of China to the world market are the milestones that gestated the cynical realism movement in China for the year 1989.

Many of his works are historical social facts to which I apply an enormous laughter as a way of protest.

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Yue Minjun's works have been present since he began his journey through the marvelous world of art in numerous galleries in cities such as Hong Kong, Singapore, and Beijing. One of the pieces that most revolutionized the various artistic circles was Execution, a serious critique of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, which was valued and sold in 2007 for a large monetary sum of $5.9 million) at the auction house Sotheby´s in London. Making Yue Minjun one of the most sought-after contemporary Chinese artists in history in the Asian giant.

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His influence of other painters such as Goya denotes his clear intention to adopt poses and motifs from some paintings such as Goya's The May 3 shootings, which is reminiscent of his work Execution.

And as I mentioned before all his works with great laughter that are in themselves the burlesque form of ridicule to the present society and the decisions that mark incredibly to the towns.

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In spite of the repression of the cultural revolution, there is a kind of contradiction with the artist that reproduces in a certain way the same schemes of the propagandistic art of the time but with different codes, in the same way, we can find that after all Mao's struggle to eradicate any type of foreign art inside China was not so far-fetched. Today it is debatable to wonder how he has been influenced by arts of different origins in cultures that have nothing to do with the autochthonous art of a given country. Under this premise, Yue Minjun owes much to that influence which is the same as the one he continues to show in each of his creations.

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Laughter is undoubtedly the other extremely important point that the artist has managed to consecrate in his work giving him the necessary identity, depersonalizing the individual to submit him to his mistakes, using laughter as a form of protest that shows pleasure and well being in a world plagued by different evils that produce suffering by a lot.

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An art that is simple but loaded with a message, that iconographically is digested as much by the Chinese people as by the peoples of the world.

However, the works of this prominent world artist have been persecuted in his country and accepted by others. The recognition is total and he does not understand of postures of if it was of the pleasure or if it is considered as something bad.

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