Why Young Chinese Artists Are Avoiding Political Art

Alec Ash | The Atlantic | 26th July 2018

Tiananmen Square led to explicitly political art, such as Cynical Realism. This came to be the style expected of Chinese artists. Times change and today’s younger artists focus elsewhere. Is this a result of government pressure? Rather elliptically, one observer says, “There is no Chinese contemporary art, there is just art made by Chinese artists.”