Banned Books

Banned Book (2006)

Banned Book 2 (2008)

Banned Book 3 (2010)

Banned Book 4 (2013)

Classic Fairy Tales

Hans Christian Andersen

Left: Portrait on his first visit to Rome by Albert Kuchler (1834)

Right: "Hans Christian Andersen in the snow" by Liu Ye (2005)

The Little Match Seller (2012)

The Little Mermaid (2004)

The Red Shoes & Night (2005)

Thumbelina (2005)

Snow White (2006)

Pinocchio (2011)

Artists Liu Ye is Influenced By

Johannes Vermeer

Dutch painter born 1632

Girl with a Pearl Earring (1665)

Left: Lady Writing a Letter with her Maid by Vermeer (1670)

Right: Self Portrait with Mondrian by Liu Ye

Piet Mondrian

Composition No. 10 (1939)

Wow (2005)

Left: Broadway Boogie-Woogie by Mondrian in 1943

Right: Once Upon a Time on Broadway by Liu Ye in 2006 

Left: Composition with Red, Blue and Yellow by Mondrian in 1930

Right: Composition with Red, Yellow, Blue by Liu Ye in 2013

Leave Me in the Dark (2009)

Mondrian, Dick Bruna and I (2003)

Dick Bruna

Dutch children's book author and illustrator born 1927

Left: IKB 191 by Yves Klein in 1962 using International Klein Blue

Right: International Blue (diptych) by Liu Ye in 2006

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One of my faves

His contemporaries

Shen Jingdong born 1965

Hero Series (The Pinocchio)

Zhang Xiaogang born 1958

Bloodline: Big Family No. 3 (1995)

Yue Minjun born 1962 

Great Solidarity (1992)