Portrait of Yan Pei-Ming .

Born in a labor family of Shanghai, Yan Pei-Ming grew in the atmosphere of the civil war of the end of the Cultural revolution. In 1980 he(it) arrives in France, and settles down in Dijon. He studies during five years to the Art college of Dijon, then between 1988 and 1989 to the Institute of the high studies in plastic arts of Paris. He paints on immense sizes and works with big brushes. He creates saturations of black, white, grey and sometimes red.Ming is essentially a portrait painter, he is interested in the current events, he so realized portraits of the swindler Madoff, the humorist Coluche or the American president Barack Obama and the senator John McCain. He paints faces in close-up and realizes descriptions, Mao's heads, portraits of his own father, Bruce Lee, self-portraits, unknown persons, skulls...