
Liu Ye
Hallway Talk 1/8/2014
Liu Ye (劉野)

Beijing-based contemporary Chinese painter born 1964
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)
Thanks!
Hallway Talk 1/8/2014
By Amanda Cheung
Hallway Talk 1/8/2014
Liu Ye
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