YANG MIAN 杨 冕
  • CV 简介
    • 中文简历
  • solo exhibition 个人展览
    • 2020 /Yang Mian Solo/2.6 Million Dots and Western Art history 杨冕个展《二百六十万个点和西方艺术史》
    • 2020 /Yang Mian CMYK 杨冕-“C。M。Y。K”
    • 2016 /CMYK:Paintings by Yang Mian 杨冕的绘画
    • 2016 /Yang Mian 2016 杨冕 2016
    • 2012/ CMYK-Yang Mian Painting 杨 冕 的 绘 画
    • 2008 /Posing YangMian 2007-2008 姿态 2007-2008 >
      • works in exhibition place/展览现场
      • Special Project / 特别项目
    • 2008 / Classical 那些经典
    • 2008 / From Classic to Standard 从标准到经典
    • 2007 / Classical 那些经典
    • 2006/ 2005 Yangmian`s standard. 2005年杨冕眼中的标准
    • 2004 Beauty Standard / 美丽标准
    • 2004 2003 Yang Mian's Standard / 2003年杨冕眼中的标准
    • 2003 Made in Beijing-House Standard / 北京制造-建筑标准
    • 2002 Made in Chengdu/成都制造
    • 2001 I deal Building Standards/理想的建筑“标准”
    • 1999 The Beauty Standard / 美好标准
    • 1998 Yang mian`s solo exhibition / 杨冕个展
  • exhibition 展览
    • Museum exhibition / 美术馆展览
    • Other exhibition / 其他展览
    • Art fair 艺术博览会
  • works 作 品
    • 2010-2019 CMYK Chronology of works 作品年表 >
      • Nine Dragons 九龙图
      • 一千八百万个点Chinese temple view murals in 18 million points -Yang Mian`s works 中的中国寺观壁画 杨冕 作 品
      • M.A.M 金钱/艺术/博物馆
      • Yang Mian’s 2,624,757 CMYK points and Western art history 杨 冕 的2,624,757个CMYK点和 西方艺术史
      • Ma Yuan Ten Thousand Riplets on the Yangzi 马远 水图
      • CMYK-Yuan Zhao Mengfu Autumn Colors on the Que and Hua Mountains(元 赵孟頫 鹊华秋色图 局部),Acryli on canvas,320x1400cm,2010,Yang mian Party
    • 2006-2008 Welcome -China cultural revolution Chronology of works 来中国-文化的革命 作品年表
    • 1997-2005 standard 标准系列 >
      • Beauty Standard 美丽“标准”
      • House Standard 建筑“标准”
  • texts 文章
    • English >
      • 2011 Britta Erickson / Yang Mian Exposes an Essential Truth for Our Era
      • 2011 Lu Mingjun/ CMYK: Experiments in Metapictures and Visual Archeology
      • 2007 Pili / From Classic to Standard
      • 2006 Lixu / Secret of Standard  Li Xu
      • 2006 /“the standard” of Chinese esthetics with the contemporary society -Yangmian’s interview
      • 2004 Sunzhe / If you can understand what Mona Lisa is smiling about, then I will know what you are thinking.
      • 2004 Huang Liaoyuan/Give Me A Reason Firstly
      • 2003 Cities and Manufactured “Standards”: Yang Mian’s Work Huang Du
      • 1999 PI LI / THE IDEAL STANDARD
      • 1998 Harald Szeemann/ CCAA Comment for Yang mian
    • 中 文 >
      • 2011 吕澎 / 视觉的标准与观念——杨冕的艺术
      • 2011皮力 / CMYK 色点与图像:关于杨冕新作三个关键词的笔记
      • 2011 鲁明军 / “CMYK”:“元图像”实验 与视觉考古
      • 2011 林似竹 / 杨冕揭示我们时代的本质
      • 2011 殷嫣与杨冕的对话
      • 2007 皮力 / 从经典到标准
      • 2007 郑乃铭 回荡在历史与现实的新疏离现象—读杨冕的艺术
      • 2006 李旭 / 标准之谜
      • 2006 皮力/ “标准”背后
      • 2006 与中国当代社会同步的有“标准”的审美 ------杨冕访谈录
      • 2004 孙哲/如果你能理解蒙娜丽莎在笑什么,那我就能知道她们在想什么?
      • 2004 黄燎原/给个理由先
      • 2003 黄 笃 / 城市与制造的“标准” —读杨冕的作品
      • 2002 致房地产商和建筑师 杨 冕
      • 1999 皮 力 / 美好标准
      • 1998 易 英 / 流行文化与个人话语从杨冕的创作谈起
      • 1998 哈拉德.森曼 / 杨冕的中国当代艺术奖金评语
  • Public project 公共项目
  • publications 出版
    • 国际媒体 Inter national Midia
    • 个人画册 Personal exhibition album
    • 重要公共出版 Important publications
    • Media 媒体
  • Forums and public services 论坛及公共服务
  • 联系 contact

             If you can understand what Mona Lisa is smiling about,
                             then I will know what you are thinking. 
                     Written by: Sun Zhe, Chief Reporter of Fashion Magazine in Shanghai, Fashion Critic 
                                                                                            2004

Unexceptionally, they have perfect complexions. No matter if she is Zhang Ziyi, Maggie Zhang, the popular manmade Korean beauty, or the unknown new advertising actress, no matter what they are selling, VISA card, essence cream or shampoo, the image focus will be their seemingly perfect faces. It reminds us of beautiful words, for example, the freshest fruits, the tenderest rose and the most innocent angel. Only people in the fashion industry know the backstage stories of such angelic creations, when creative and mutually discriminating fashion workers finally cooperate with each other. The idea director of the commodity leads the expensive hairdresser, wardrobe expert, stylist, star or model, charging on an hourly basis. All of them are paid to shoot a completely unreal face in a studio as luminous as polar day. They are dream creators and they love it. When a worker modifies pictures of famous women into perfection with an Apple computer, concealing the blemishes on our bodies left by God, they are proud of it. They care nothing of the real faces of those models.  As cocoa powder and sugar are only disorderly materials for a skilled baker, and his focus is to bake them into a decorative cake.  
Actually, it is a process of visualizing “beauty”. Under the requirement and direction of powerful product manufacturers, fashion workers try to define standards of “beauty” for the public. This motivation is relevant to art creation, but more important, it is designed to meet the demands of a huge and globalized market.  
Does “beauty” need its standards? If there was only one standard of “beauty” left, how would we face it? Would you take the risks of being regarded as “out-of-date”, having “no taste” or being “ugly and disgusting”? Would you fight against such standards of “beauty”?
The whole process of modern industrialization tries to simplify and standardize all of our opinions about every step we make, whether it is in fashion, home decoration or the food in our refrigerators.  For modern people with a sense of responsibility, any idea beyond those provided by manufacturers can be immoral. Stereotypes are the fruits of modern industry, as well as the key to lowering production costs. If women all around the world have the same idea of “beauty”, “beauty” products are more easily sold around the world. They have been doing this for years and have achieved decisive success.  
In his “Standards” series of POP style, Yang Mian expresses his opinion about increasingly simple and repeated standards of “beauty”. His opinion may express his worry, his sense-of-humor or irony, but I don’t see it as anger. Even though there is an electric wave-like line in each painting, I don’t think it represents strong provocation. For either an artist or a common person, it is difficult to fight against the order of our existing lives on a grand scale. Though it is a hegemonic and single “standard”, it has its necessity and value of existence. 
Appearing in these advertisements with similar background and methods, any real and vivid person would become strange. She becomes a pure symbol, with ambiguous status. Like the woman in the famous painting Mona Lisa; we know that she is a leisurely and rich woman, but nobody can define the emotion in her expression. Similarly, we don’t know the real thoughts of famous women in advertisements. There is nothing more idealized than this. In particular, in the make-up advertisement of AUPRUS, Zhao Wei gazes at the audience with a distracted expression. We are unable to discover if she is happy and satisfied with her life. It seems that the products she is representing devoured her. Product manufacturers are trying to create a simple and understandable advertising style, and these famous women are only tools. However, it seems that they cannot even persuade themselves. I don’t know how many people these soulless and beautiful dolls enchant. It might be far away from the original intention of those manufactured. But sometimes it is true.  

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  • CV 简介
    • 中文简历
  • solo exhibition 个人展览
    • 2020 /Yang Mian Solo/2.6 Million Dots and Western Art history 杨冕个展《二百六十万个点和西方艺术史》
    • 2020 /Yang Mian CMYK 杨冕-“C。M。Y。K”
    • 2016 /CMYK:Paintings by Yang Mian 杨冕的绘画
    • 2016 /Yang Mian 2016 杨冕 2016
    • 2012/ CMYK-Yang Mian Painting 杨 冕 的 绘 画
    • 2008 /Posing YangMian 2007-2008 姿态 2007-2008 >
      • works in exhibition place/展览现场
      • Special Project / 特别项目
    • 2008 / Classical 那些经典
    • 2008 / From Classic to Standard 从标准到经典
    • 2007 / Classical 那些经典
    • 2006/ 2005 Yangmian`s standard. 2005年杨冕眼中的标准
    • 2004 Beauty Standard / 美丽标准
    • 2004 2003 Yang Mian's Standard / 2003年杨冕眼中的标准
    • 2003 Made in Beijing-House Standard / 北京制造-建筑标准
    • 2002 Made in Chengdu/成都制造
    • 2001 I deal Building Standards/理想的建筑“标准”
    • 1999 The Beauty Standard / 美好标准
    • 1998 Yang mian`s solo exhibition / 杨冕个展
  • exhibition 展览
    • Museum exhibition / 美术馆展览
    • Other exhibition / 其他展览
    • Art fair 艺术博览会
  • works 作 品
    • 2010-2019 CMYK Chronology of works 作品年表 >
      • Nine Dragons 九龙图
      • 一千八百万个点Chinese temple view murals in 18 million points -Yang Mian`s works 中的中国寺观壁画 杨冕 作 品
      • M.A.M 金钱/艺术/博物馆
      • Yang Mian’s 2,624,757 CMYK points and Western art history 杨 冕 的2,624,757个CMYK点和 西方艺术史
      • Ma Yuan Ten Thousand Riplets on the Yangzi 马远 水图
      • CMYK-Yuan Zhao Mengfu Autumn Colors on the Que and Hua Mountains(元 赵孟頫 鹊华秋色图 局部),Acryli on canvas,320x1400cm,2010,Yang mian Party
    • 2006-2008 Welcome -China cultural revolution Chronology of works 来中国-文化的革命 作品年表
    • 1997-2005 standard 标准系列 >
      • Beauty Standard 美丽“标准”
      • House Standard 建筑“标准”
  • texts 文章
    • English >
      • 2011 Britta Erickson / Yang Mian Exposes an Essential Truth for Our Era
      • 2011 Lu Mingjun/ CMYK: Experiments in Metapictures and Visual Archeology
      • 2007 Pili / From Classic to Standard
      • 2006 Lixu / Secret of Standard  Li Xu
      • 2006 /“the standard” of Chinese esthetics with the contemporary society -Yangmian’s interview
      • 2004 Sunzhe / If you can understand what Mona Lisa is smiling about, then I will know what you are thinking.
      • 2004 Huang Liaoyuan/Give Me A Reason Firstly
      • 2003 Cities and Manufactured “Standards”: Yang Mian’s Work Huang Du
      • 1999 PI LI / THE IDEAL STANDARD
      • 1998 Harald Szeemann/ CCAA Comment for Yang mian
    • 中 文 >
      • 2011 吕澎 / 视觉的标准与观念——杨冕的艺术
      • 2011皮力 / CMYK 色点与图像:关于杨冕新作三个关键词的笔记
      • 2011 鲁明军 / “CMYK”:“元图像”实验 与视觉考古
      • 2011 林似竹 / 杨冕揭示我们时代的本质
      • 2011 殷嫣与杨冕的对话
      • 2007 皮力 / 从经典到标准
      • 2007 郑乃铭 回荡在历史与现实的新疏离现象—读杨冕的艺术
      • 2006 李旭 / 标准之谜
      • 2006 皮力/ “标准”背后
      • 2006 与中国当代社会同步的有“标准”的审美 ------杨冕访谈录
      • 2004 孙哲/如果你能理解蒙娜丽莎在笑什么,那我就能知道她们在想什么?
      • 2004 黄燎原/给个理由先
      • 2003 黄 笃 / 城市与制造的“标准” —读杨冕的作品
      • 2002 致房地产商和建筑师 杨 冕
      • 1999 皮 力 / 美好标准
      • 1998 易 英 / 流行文化与个人话语从杨冕的创作谈起
      • 1998 哈拉德.森曼 / 杨冕的中国当代艺术奖金评语
  • Public project 公共项目
  • publications 出版
    • 国际媒体 Inter national Midia
    • 个人画册 Personal exhibition album
    • 重要公共出版 Important publications
    • Media 媒体
  • Forums and public services 论坛及公共服务
  • 联系 contact