今天,中国的当代艺术呈现出多种形态。也许当下在西方圈子内最熟悉的面孔是岳敏君作品中的戏剧化卡通笑脸,像佛陀的笑容,它们第一次出现在20世纪90年代,还有是毛泽东的政治图像,如董希文的作品《开国大典》(1980年修改)。岳敏君的绘画超越了传统,旨在寻求新的艺术身份。他的作品没有多少传统文人画的痕迹。毛泽东在世时以及去世后出现了大量他的图像,安迪·沃霍尔在1972年和1973年创作了著名的作品,使得它们超越了中国的 Today, there are many forms of contemporary art in China. Perhaps the most familiar face nowadays in Western circles is the dramatic cartoon smile of Yue Minjun’s works, like the smile of the Buddha, which first appeared in the 1990s and was a political image of Mao Tse-tung. For example, Dong Xiwen’s work “ Ceremony ”(modified in 1980). Yue Minjun’s paintings transcend the tradition and aim to seek new artistic identity. His works do not have many traces of traditional literati painting. Mao Zedong was alive and died after the emergence of a large number of his images, Andy Warhol in 1972 and 1973, the creation of famous works, making them beyond China