Artist: Wang Guangyi

Biography
1957 - Born in Harbin, Heilongjiang, China
1984 - Graduated from the Oil Painting Deapartmetn at Zhejiang Academy of FIne Arts
Lives and works in Beijing

Wang Guanyi works in the style of political pop, a unique melding of Cultural Revolution propaganda with formal and stylistic appropriations from American Pop Art. Perhaps the most recognizable of his work is The Great Criticism series, begun in 1990. Wang Guangyi emblazons each painting in this series with a Western brand, showing the antagonism between socialism and capitalism.

Great Criticism: Coca-Cola
1993
Oil on Canvas

Porsche
2005
Oil on Canvas

Mao AO
1988
Oil on Canvas

This work sold for $4.1 million at Phillips de Pury & Company, London on October 13, 2007 -a record high price at auction for this artist