Mao en Nueva York, 1995

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Yu Youhan es aclamado por su serie de retratos de colores vivos de Mao Zedong, que formaron parte del movimiento Pop Político de la década de 1990, que fusionó referencias a la imaginería de propaganda realista socialista con estilos de arte pop. El artista incorpora motivos florales y geométricos decorativos, así como la estética del arte popular para suavizar sus representaciones de la figura, en un esfuerzo por humanizar la figura política, mientras alude también al campo chino, donde muchos ciudadanos chinos fueron enviados a la fuerza durante la Revolución Cultural.

《毛主席在紐約》,1995

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二十世紀九十年代的政治波普運動將社會主義現實主義宣傳圖畫的視覺符號融入了波普藝術風格的創作表達。在這場文藝運動中,余友涵因其色調鮮明的毛澤東肖像畫系列作品而備受認可。藝術家運用裝飾性花卉、幾何紋樣以及民間藝術美學來淡化對人物的描摹,以此試圖將政治人物人性化。同時,這幅作品隱喻了許多中國人在文化大革命期間被強制分配前往的地區——中國鄉村。

Mao in New York, 1995

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Yu Youhan is acclaimed for his series of brightly colored portraits of Mao Zedong, which were part of the Political Pop movement of the 1990s that fused references to Socialist Realist propaganda imagery with Pop art styles. The artist incorporates decorative floral and geometric patterning as well as folk-art aesthetics to soften his depictions of the figure, in an effort to humanize the political figure, while also alluding to the Chinese countryside, where many Chinese citizens were forcefully sent during the Cultural Revolution.