Cynical Realism
Nota de aplicación
A term coined by art critic Li Xianting to refer to an art style in China, mainly focused in Beijing, in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The Cynical Realist artists were mainly born in the 1960s and thus experienced constant social, political and cultural turmoil. As the June Fourth Incident in 1989 declared the attempt to rebuild Chinese culture by introducing western modern art too idealistic, the artists felt disillusioned and discarded the me…