This document discusses Chinese art since the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989. It mentions works by artists such as Yue Minjun who created satirical portraits commenting on Chinese politics. It also discusses Xu Bing's Book from the Sky installation which used invented characters to comment on censorship. Finally, it discusses politically-influenced pop art by artists like Wang Guangyi, the Luo Brothers, and Cai Guo-Qiang known for his explosive gunpowder drawings.

1. Art in China
Since Tiananmen Square, 1989

2. • Tiananmen Square protests, 1989

3. • Yue Minjun, Portrait of the Artist and his
Friends

4. • “Long Live Chairman Mao!” 1970

5. • “Turn China into a
prosperous, rich,
and powerful
industrialized
socialist country
under the
leadership of the
Communist Party
and Chairman
Mao!” 1954

6. • Yue Minjun Untitled, 1998

7. • Yue Minjun

8. • “Comrade Mao is the greatest Marxist-
Leninist of the Present Age” 1969 Socialist
Realist propaganda poster

9. • 2006
• Oil on
canvas, 82
x 82 cm

10. • Scholars’ Rock
series, 2006
• Oil on canvas, 180
x 130 cm

12. • Yue Minjun,
Contemporary
Terracotta
Warrior, nd

13. • Yue Min Jun, Contemporary Terra Cotta
Warriors, 2007 (Installation view), bronze

16. • Yue Min Jun, The
Pope, 1997

17. • Girl Reading a
letter by an
open window,
2006, Yue
Minjun

18. • Vermeer, Girl
Reading
Letter by an
Open
Window,
1657-9

19. • Xu Bing Book from the sky, 1988

20. • Queesland, Australia installation of Book
from the Sky

24. • Book from the Ground 2007

25. Wang Guangyi
Great Castigation Series:
Coca-Cola, 1993

26. Wang Guangyi
Porsche
2005
Oil on canvas

27. Xu Yihui , Money (+ The little red book,
larger; 2 works), painted porcelain and
metal, 1998-9
Political pop, Gaudy art

28. • Xu Yihui, Little Red Book Series (192
books), 2006

29. • Luo Brothers, I
Love
Tienanmen
Square, Beijing
#29, 1996-7
(photograph,
computer
graphic, water
color, lacquer
on board )

31. • Luo Brothers,
"Welcome to the
Famous Brand of
the World, Coca
Cola Light“ 2006-
2007 (Welcome
to the Famous
Brand series)

32. • Chinese New Year poster, Beijing (Year of
the Rooster) 2005-6

33. • World Famous Brands Series (Climbing
On Coke) 2007

34. Welcome to the World Famous Brands series, 2007, laquer on wood

35. Luo Brothers, "Welcome to the World Famous Brand“ series

36. • Welcome
World Brands
series -
Siemens, 2007
Carved wood
and lacquer, 67
x 55 cm.

38. Cai Guo-Qiang
• I Want to Believe, mid-career retrospective
at the Guggenheim Museum, NY
(currently showing)

39. • Drawing for
Transient
Rainbow"
2003
Gunpowder
on paper,
198 x 157
inches

40. Black Rainbow," proposal
2005
Explosion project for Valencia, Spain
Date: May 1, 2005
Time: 12 noon

41. Cai Guo Qiang, Innoportune Stage 1, 2004

43. • Zhang Huan,
Family Tree,
2000

44. • Zhang Huan, 12
square meters, 1994
(C-print document of
performance)

45. • Zhang Huan, To raise the water level in a
fishpond, 1997