Execution by Yue Min Jun is probably the most expensive Chinese contemporary art work. Every face inside the painting is same, and all of them are giving a jaw-breaking grin. The sense of weirdness rises from your heart since the guy’s responses in the painting are contradicted. Actually the guy is self-portrait of Yue MinJun, which manages to reference the 7th-century Laughing Buddha, the happy Communist worker of the 20th century .Yue MinJun is so famous with his laughers, the meaning of them are not just present the sense of happiness but always can be looked as a mask that hiding real feelings of helplessness. Responding to the painting, it is easy to understand what feelings and the emotion that Yue was inspired by 1989.
Apart from that, it is suggesting that the long-red building is the gate of Tiananmen. Four naked men are lining up against the fully clothed men who are about to shoot them. What comes up to your mind? Are they gathering to celebrate something? Or are they playing some kind of games? In fact, It is not difficult to link up to the June 4 massacre inBeijing, the naked men represent the unarmed students.
On the other hand, Yue MinJun uses smiley face as his trade mark which is quite similar to another Chinese contemporary artist, Zhang Xiao Kang. Both of them use the human faces as the main theme of their painting ,however, there are difference on the way they present their own feelings .Different with Yue MinJun, Zhang stylized portrait of Chinese people, usually with large and dark-pupiled eyes which can see no happiness for what they had experienced. But the theme that Yue and Zhang used to paint are so related, which most of the paintings are about their country, China.
All in all, the reason they drawing people but other things are same, since they think the human conflicts bring big impacts, and they are both-sided. But Yue ‘s smile attracts people’s eyes and can let people think more about the parody behind the drawing.