In these images, Huang Yan paints the surface of the face in the traditional Shan-Shui landscape tradition. Beginning with these early pieces, the artist has created his own radical conceptual context, and has given us one of the most enduring and recognizable images of the early avant-garde years of Chinese Contemporary art.

In these images, Huang Yan paints the surface of the face in the traditional Shan-Shui landscape tradition. Beginning with these early pieces, the artist has created his own radical conceptual context, and has given us one of the most enduring and recognizable images of the early avant-garde years of Chinese Contemporary art.

In these images, Huang Yan paints the surface of the face in the traditional Shan-Shui landscape tradition. Beginning with these early pieces, the artist has created his own radical conceptual context, and has given us one of the most enduring and recognizable images of the early avant-garde years of Chinese Contemporary art