Yan Pei Ming

Born in Shanghai in 1960, Yan Pei Ming is a Chinese contemporary painter who is famous for his epic sized portraits of Mao Zedong.









His portraits work have a old worn out effect, which would go well with the theme of faded memories. creating large-scale, monochrome portraits. His works have dynamic and passionate actions, his brush strokes are rough and strong, it shows how he was raised up during the Cultural Revolution when youths were sent to the farmlands to be taught about the conditions of their rural country and how they must be strong to help China prosper.
When looking up close at his work, you can see how messy it is but from a distance, the portraits look from clean and normal portrait like. This is to show that you shouldn't judge anyone because no one is truly perfect, once you get close to them you can see all their flaws and mess just like in the portraits.

(Obama, 2008)

Reference:

1. http://ropac.net/uploads/images/artist/artistb6393b7b78cff3cf1b7d826f7805b905.png

2. Yan Pei-Ming, Obama, 2008 Photo: André Morin © Yan Pei-Ming, ADAGP, Paris, 2009