this painting has a depth of meaning that isn't easy to access...
but once you do, it will change the way you look at EVERYTHING...!
Interviews with the artist, Yan Pei-Ming:
Elena Cué for HuffPost 2015
David Barboza for artzine china 2008
Selina Ting for initiArt Magazine 2009
Charles Schultz for the Brooklyn Rail 2012
Lisa Stahl for Art in America
brief bio from artnet 2015
more images of Yan Pei-Ming's paintings:
https://dailyartfair.com/artist/yan-pei-ming
https://dailyartfair.com/exhibition/5152/yan-pei-ming-massimo-de-carlo
https://dailyartfair.com/exhibition/7925/yan-pei-ming-galerie-thaddaeus-ropac
Some Good, Larger images of work by Yan Pei-Ming
https://www.tuttartpitturasculturapoesiamusica.com/2018/09/Yan-Pei-Ming.html
Significant links:
Francis Bacon Popes
Velazquez: Pope Innocent X
Titian: Pope Paul III
Jacques-Louis David: Coronation of Napoleon:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Coronation_of_Napoleon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Coronation_of_Napoleon#/media/File:David_-_L'Empereur_Napoleon_se_couronnant_lui-meme.png
Yan Pei-Ming’s Napoleons
Andy Warhol and Mao
Warhol’s candy colored Mao portraits:
https://guyhepner.com/artist/andy-warhol-art-prints-paintings/mao-by-andy-warhol/
https://www.masterworksfineart.com/educational-resources/andy-warhol/warhol-mao-series-1972/
https://www.wikiart.org/en/andy-warhol/mao-2
Warhol’s Death & Disaster Series
A great example of VanGogh’s brushwork
Silkscreen painting
Bill Alexander: Magic of Oil Painting
Bob Ross: Joy of Oil Painting
autonomous sensory meridian response
They Live
Freud's Free association method
more Warhol:
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