New Generation Exhibition
This New Generation exhibition was held to draw people's attention the Cynical Realism. This took place in July 1991 in the National History Museum in Beijing. There were many new major painters such as Fang Lijun, Liu Wei, Song Yonghong, etc. who participate and helped out with this event. This exhibition is known as a starter for the trend of realistic painting. In this event, Fang Lijun and other new painters introduced to the society a new of thinking, new way of painting and new way of criticizing the meaning behind each art work. The paintings in his exhibition mostly focused on the national identity, cultural change and other related issues through stereotypical bald head men, family style and people's faces.
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