Bald Realism

Fang Lijun
2001.1.15
Oil on canvas, 2001

Fang Lijun is a leading figure of the Cynical Realist school, which was a reaction against the events of Tiananmen Square in 1989. The figure of a baldheaded youth has been his trademark, alternately interpreted as mocking, disillusioned, or displaced. This work sold for $304,000 at a Sotheby's auction in April.

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