About Yue Minjun, his biography, works, and criticism of his most famous work: Execution.

1. “Execution” by Yue Minjun

2. Photo credit: Forbes

3. I’m actually trying to make sense of the world.
There’s nothing cynical or absurd in what I do.

12. 1987
The Second Condition
By Geng Jianyi
Oil on Canvas / 4 pieces
/ 170x130 cm each

15. The Artist and His
Friends, 1991, oil on
canvas (Photo © Yue
Minjun)

16. Gweong-Gweong, 1993,
Oil on canvas (Photo © Yue Minjun)

17. The Massacre at Chios, 1994,
Oil on canvas (Photo © Yue Minjun)

18. On the Lake , 1994,
oil on canvas
(Photo © Yue Minjun)

19. Execution, 1995, Oil on canvas (Photo © Yue Minjun)

20. Sky, 1997, oil on canvas
(Photo © Yue Minjun)

21. Water, 1998, oil on
canvas (Photo © Yue
Minjun)

22. Power of Laughter,
1999,
(Photo © Yue Minjun)

24. Li
Xianting

25. Bloodline – Big Family No. 3, 1995 (Photo © Zhang
Xiaogang)

26. Mask Series No. 6, 1996 (Photo © Zeng
Fanzhi)

27. Great Joy, 1993
(Photo © Yue Minjun)

29. Mass Criticism, 2005
(Photo © Wang
Guangy)

33. The Sun, 2000,
oil on canvas (Photo © Yue
Minjun)

34. Mushroom Cloud, 2002,
oil on canvas (Photo © Yue Minjun)

35. Free and Leisure-10,
2003, oil on canvas
(Photo © Yue Minjun)

36. Hat Series, 2004, oil on
canvas
(Photo © Yue Minjun)

37. Starry Night, 2009,
Lithograph (Photo © Yue Minjun)

38. Isolated Island, 2010, oil on canvas
(Photo © Yue Minjun)

39. A-Maze-Ing Laugh,
2013
(Photo © Yue Minjun)

40. Execution / 1995 / 150x300cm / Oil on Canvas
/
US $5000 US $5.9 millionUS $32000

41. Francisco Goya - The
Third of May 1808
(1814)Museo del Prado, Madrid
Oil on Canvas, 268 cm × 347 cm

42. Édouard Manet -
Execution of Emperor
Maximilian (1868–
1869)Muesuem of Modern Art, New York
Oil on Canvas, 252 × 305 cm