Zhang Xiaogang

Zhang Xiaogang hailing from China has become a name in the states, gaining popularity for his lonely feeling portraits. A contemporary Chinese surrealist and symbolist, which have slightly different connotations outside of Western history, Xiaogang works with themes of family and groups and what it means to be an individual, if that is even a reality. A more muted palatte is set off by chunks of bright color placed strategically, as if to suggest that is what the painting is really about.
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Untitled, 2007

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