Yan Pei-Ming (Chinese: 严培明; pinyin: Yán Péimíng), born 1 December 1960, is a Chinese painter.Since 1981 he has been living in Dijon, France.His most famous paintings are "epic-sized" portraits of Mao Zedong worked out in black and white or red and white. He works with big brushes, and his paintings are brought to life by the rapid brush strokes which structure the picture space. Yan Pei Ming is a contemporary Chinese painter celebrated worldwide for his Expressionistic and monumental works. Yan creates distinctive portraits of famous figures of the 20th century, including likenesses of Mao Zedong, Michael Jackson, Bruce Lee, and Pablo Picasso.. "I'm interested in everything, just as much art history as historical figures and the anonymous," the artist has explained.
Yan Pei Ming
Yan Pei-Ming - Tigres & vautours Catalogue d'exposition Textes de Stéphane IBARS, Dominique VINGTAIN, Cecile DEBRAY et Henri LOYRETTE édition bilingue (français / anglais) Acets Sud, 2021. 176 pages 22 x 28 cm ISBN : 978-2-330-15089-1. Yan Pei-Ming - Au nom du père Price on request. Yan Pei-Ming. Icons, 2013. Weng Contemporary. €12,900. 1 2 3. Discover and purchase Yan Pei-Ming's artworks, available for sale. Browse our selection of paintings, prints, and sculptures by the artist, and find art you love. Often political, Yan Pei-Ming has depicted the tragedy of 11 September 2001, painted Mao's portraits and revisited masterpieces of art history, especially those by Courbet. His paintings in the Pinault Collection were exhibited in 2009 during the "Qui a peur des artistes ?" ("Who's Afraid of Artists?") show at the Palais des Arts in. Yan Pei-Ming has won international acclaim for his unique style of Expressionist portraiture. Conveying the tension between conventional form and contemporary relevance, his subjects span people in the public eye, iconic works in art history, current events, still-lifes, religious subjects, friends and family, and animals.
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Yan Pei-Ming was born into a working-class family in Shanghai in 1960 and grew up during the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976). His artistic talents soon got him noticed, but he was rejected at the Shanghai Art & Design School and, in his twenties, emigrated to France, enrolling at the École des Beaux-Arts in Dijon in 1981 and later attending the Institut des Hautes études en Arts plastiques. Yan Pei-Ming's work is characterised by his use of a two-toned monochrome colour palette in black and white or red and white, thereby directing stronger focus towards the subject and composition of his works. In recent works, he has begun to include a wider range colours in his formerly strictly uniform palette, such as tones of blue or green.. Yan Pei-Ming (Chinese, b.1960) is a painter most known for his epic-sized portraits of Mao Zedong, finished with large expressive brushstrokes and sparse use of color. Born in Shanghai during the Chinese Cultural Revolution, Yan took up painting as a hobby, later applying to the Shanghai Art and Design School, where he was rejected because of a speech impediment. The Chinese artist Yan Pei-Ming will unveil next month a vast painting focused on the Covid-19 pandemic that draws directly on the Isenheim altarpiece, a masterpiece of religious art painted.
Yan PeiMing, 1960 Pop Art / Portrait painter Tutt'Art Pittura * Scultura * Poesia * Musica
Artist Profile Yan Pei-Ming. Dijon-based painter Yan Pei-Ming is known for rendering humanity's many faces in a single tone and on monumental scale, following the tradition of Western portraiture. Early Life Born in Shanghai in 1960, Yan Pei-Ming grew up in China during the Yan Pei-Ming discovered the work of the French painter in a black and white propaganda book during his first years of studies in China. Settled in France since 1980, he rediscovered the work of the artist for whom he has developed a great fascination. In this exhibition presented in the large formats gallery of the Petit Palais, the materiality.
Yan Pei-Ming's work features a hefty amount of historical iconography.In the room called Paper Tiger, he recounts images westerners would stereotypically associate with China, such as tigers, dragons, actor Bruce Lee (who perfectly embodies globalization and became a cultural bridge between the east and west) and former president of the People's Republic of China, Mao Zedong. A crying Mona Lisa. Yan Pei Ming, Mao on the balcony, 2000, private collection.Christies.. In 2009, Yan was the first Chinese artist ever to exhibit at the French Louvre. He presented a polyptych entitled The Funerals of Mona Lisa, composed of a portrait of crying Mona Lisa, a portrait of Yan's dead father, and three self-portraits: two showing Yan's skull and the third showing him on his.
Interview with Yan Pei Ming.
Yan Pei-Ming / Courbet, Face to Face moved from Ornans this past summer to the Petit Palais, rich with works from Courbet in its permanent collection. The exhibit will be on view through January. Yan Pei-Ming has won international acclaim for his unique style of Expressionist portraiture. Conveying the tension between conventional form and contemporary relevance, his subjects span people in the public eye,iconic works in art history, current events, still lifes religious subjects, friends and family, and animals In particular, his.
