Artists

Some Thoughts about Art

Reality is getting further and further away from us. Newspaper, magazines and television, the repetitious news which appears in every corner of our homes, offices, school seem to be the absolute reality. I’m looking for new reality, an absolute reality that only belongs to me.

In every corner of this world, you see faces, especially the ones which are created by our culture – television magazines, movies, newspapers, commercials. Faces are seen everywhere: there are faces upon faces. I cannot depict all of these different faces simply because my mind is only set for one face.

I hope my laughing character will be seen everywhere, whether through mass-communications or the interaction of our daily lives. If everybody would laugh from their hearts, then the world would be nicer for us.

I have always found laughter irresistible – well, at least I don’t disk like it.

I paint people laughing, whether it is a big laugh, a restrained laugh, a crazy-laugh, a near-death laugh or simply laughter about our society: laughter can be about anything.

Laughter is a moment when our mind refuses to reason. When we are puzzled by certain things, our mind simply doesn’t want to struggle, or perhaps we don’t know how to think, therefore we just want to forget it.

The 90’s is the time when everyone should laugh.

Artists are the kind of people who always like to reveal to the simple, innocent and humble souls the never-ending illusion of our lives.

 Yue Min Jun