this painting has a depth of meaning that isn't easy to access...
but once you do, it will change the way you look at EVERYTHING...!

Interviews with the artist, Yan Pei-Ming:
Elena Cué for HuffPost 2015

David Barboza for artzine china 2008

Selina Ting for initiArt Magazine 2009

Charles Schultz for the Brooklyn Rail 2012

Lisa Stahl for Art in America

brief bio from artnet 2015

more images of Yan Pei-Ming's paintings:
https://dailyartfair.com/artist/yan-pei-ming

https://dailyartfair.com/exhibition/5152/yan-pei-ming-massimo-de-carlo

https://dailyartfair.com/exhibition/7925/yan-pei-ming-galerie-thaddaeus-ropac

Some Good, Larger images of work by Yan Pei-Ming
https://www.tuttartpitturasculturapoesiamusica.com/2018/09/Yan-Pei-Ming.html

Significant links:
Francis Bacon Popes

Velazquez: Pope Innocent X

Titian: Pope Paul III

Jacques-Louis David: Coronation of Napoleon:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Coronation_of_Napoleon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Coronation_of_Napoleon#/media/File:David_-_L'Empereur_Napoleon_se_couronnant_lui-meme.png

Yan Pei-Ming’s Napoleons

Andy Warhol and Mao

Warhol’s candy colored Mao portraits:
https://guyhepner.com/artist/andy-warhol-art-prints-paintings/mao-by-andy-warhol/

https://www.masterworksfineart.com/educational-resources/andy-warhol/warhol-mao-series-1972/

https://www.wikiart.org/en/andy-warhol/mao-2

Warhol’s Death & Disaster Series

A great example of VanGogh’s brushwork

Silkscreen painting

Bill Alexander: Magic of Oil Painting

Bob Ross: Joy of Oil Painting

autonomous sensory meridian response

They Live

Freud's Free association method

more Warhol:
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