Blood clan 3

What is contemporary art? There is a saying that the works of art since the founding of the People's Republic of China are called contemporary art, and some people think that the art reflected by artists' understanding of society and feelings for people after the reform and opening up is called contemporary art, and individuals prefer the second one.

Blood clan 3 is a cartoon portrait of Zhang Xiao, which depicts people in the 1960s and 1970s by using contemporary art schools. It is an exposition of social blood relationship with collective portraits, and it is also an artist's subjective understanding of social people in the revolutionary era.

Zhang Xiaogang's works are standard in expression, fuzzy in face and stiff in standing posture, which is the symbolic style of figure photography in the revolutionary era. Artists used vague facial makeup to express people's vague personality and numb thoughts and feelings at that time. In the sixties and seventies, especially when wearing green military uniforms, people obeyed the same slogan, carried out the same behavior pattern and maintained a unified thought. Therefore, Zhang Xiaogang named this painting "Blood Clan". Everyone lives in a big family, and no one is just a group. The difference between them is whether you are related by blood or not.

The undistorted gray tone and the smooth picture without brush strokes are actually a language expression of the artist. Under the gray tone, the characters are melancholy, depressed and confused. China's family was all in tears at that time, and they could only hide themselves with a numb expression. This is the artist's feelings for the memory of the times.

Zhang Xiaogang's gray tone has become the business card of contemporary art in China. For a long time, gray tone with one or two bright colors has become the mainstream of contemporary art in China and other countries, while gray has a feeling that has nothing to do with reality, just like dreaming. The characters in the painting are looking at us quietly through the dust of history/

Zhang Xiaogang's paintings started at Sotheby's auction in 2007 with a price of 300,000 yuan, but the painter said it was impossible because he was ready when he started to create contemporary art, and finally sold for 900,000 dollars. By 20 14, Sotheby's auction price was 90 million Hong Kong dollars. But this has a lot to do with the hype in the art market. By 20 15, the lowest price of Zhang Xiaogang's works was HK$ 200,000, and no one bid. The world of art is really beyond our ordinary people's understanding.