After Leaving China: Art Works
The Tiananmen Square Massacre happened when Huang Yong Ping went to the Magicians of Earth (1989) exhibition and he then decided to not go back to China. You can that during this move his works changed dramatically and prominently on the philosophies of Taoism and Buddhism. He suddenly was immerging in the western ways.
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