Untitled, Smile-ism No.16, 2006
Sea of the Brain
High
Lovers, Hats Series, 2005, oil on canvas, 170 x 140 cm
Backyard Garden, 2007, oil on canvas, 400 x 280 cm
Armed Forces, 2005, oil on canvas, 170 x 140 cm
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Inside and outside the Stage, 2009, oil on canvas, 336 x 267cm
I am Dragon – 2, 2008, oil on canvas, 220 x 200 cm
The Execution, 1996, 0il on canvas, 150 x 300 cmMr. Yue was born in 1962 in the far northern Heilongjiang Province of China and as a child moved to Beijing with his parents. He studied oil painting at the Hebei Normal University and graduated in 1989, when China was rocked by student-led demonstrations and their suppression on Tiananmen Square in June of that year.
“My mood changed at that time,” he said. “I was very down. I realized the gap between reality and the ideal, and I wanted to create my own artistic definition, whereby there could be a meeting with social life and the social environment.”
