Wang Guangyi

(Chinese, born 1957)

Wang Guangyi is a Chinese Political Pop artist. Throughout his paintings, he combines Maoist-era propaganda melded with Western-style advertisements of companies like Coca-Cola and Chanel to comment on the commercialization of contemporary Chinese culture. Influenced by the artists Andy Warhol and Joseph Beuys, he was one of the founding members of the Chinese avant-garde Northern Art Group alongside Shu Qun and Ren Jian. “I came to realize that the essence of art is its ancestry, its history,” the artist has said. “When creating a work of art, one’s head is full of these historical considerations; an encounter with what has been and its entry into the process of rectification.” Born in 1957 in Harbin, China, Wang studied in the Department of Oil Painting at the China Academy of Fine Arts, Zhejaiang branch. The artist lives and works in Beijing, China and his works can be found at the Essl Museum in Klosterneuburg, the Today Art Museum in Beijing, and the Bernardo Museum in Lisbon.

Wang Guangyi Artworks

Wang Guangyi (1,137 results)
Methodology of people's war series, 2004

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Methodology of people's war series, 2004

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Great criticism series: art race, 2007

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Great criticism series: art race, 2007

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Belief series (three works), 1999

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Belief series (three works), 1999

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Three sections of human body

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Three sections of human body

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Red rationality: an analysis of the reasons..., 1987

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Red rationality: an analysis of the reasons..., 1987

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Believer (set of 4), 2006

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Believer (set of 4), 2006

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Great criticism: Coca Cola (Red), 2006

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Great criticism: Coca Cola (Red), 2006

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Great criticism: Coca Cola (Green), 2006

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Great criticism: Coca Cola (Green), 2006

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Great Criticism: Coca Cola

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Great Criticism: Coca Cola

Sale Date: March 16, 2015

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Great Criticism Series: Christie's, 2003

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Great Criticism Series: Christie's, 2003

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Materialist, 2005

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Materialist, 2005

Sale Date: March 10, 2015

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大批判博物馆 (Criticism on museum), 2006

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大批判博物馆 (Criticism on museum), 2006

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大批判系列-藝術國族 (Great Criticism Series: Art..., 2005

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大批判系列-藝術國族 (Great Criticism Series: Art..., 2005

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Great Criticism. WTO, 2006

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Great Criticism. WTO, 2006

Sale Date: December 3, 2014

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Great Criticism. Gillette, 2002

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Great Criticism. Gillette, 2002

Sale Date: December 3, 2014

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批量生产的圣婴—红色, 1990

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批量生产的圣婴—红色, 1990

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后古典系列·降下十字架, 1988

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后古典系列·降下十字架, 1988

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Great Criticism Series: WTO, 2006

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Great Criticism Series: WTO, 2006

Sale Date: November 23, 2014

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Coca Cola, 2002

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Coca Cola, 2002

Sale Date: November 23, 2014

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Great Criticism: Dior, 2005

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Great Criticism: Dior, 2005

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Great Criticism: Art Race, 2007

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Great Criticism: Art Race, 2007

Sale Date: November 23, 2014

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Great Criticism: XO Chine, 2005

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Great Criticism: XO Chine, 2005

Sale Date: November 23, 2014

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Eternal Rays series, 2004

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Eternal Rays series, 2004

Sale Date: November 23, 2014

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Great Criticism Series : Pepsi

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Great Criticism Series : Pepsi

Sale Date: November 9, 2014

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