Guangyi Wang Art for Sale at Auction

Painter, b. 1957 -

Wang Guanyi was born in 1956 Harbin, Heilongjinang province in China. Wang graduated from Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts in 1984 and now lives and works in Beijing. Wang works in the style of political pop, a unique melding of Cultural Revolution propaganda with formal and stylistic appropriations from American Pop Art. Perhaps the most recognizable of his work is The Great Criticism series, begun in 1990. Wang Guangyi emblazons each painting in this series with a Western brand, showing the antagonism between socialism and capitalism.