Guo Jian
Guo Jian was born on January 26, 1962. See ranking, bio blurb, and everyone else born that day.
About Guo Jian
Guo Jian (Chinese: 郭健; pinyin: Guō Jiàn; born 26 January 1962) is a Chinese Australian artist. He is part of a movement of contemporary Chinese artists whose work is characterised as Cynical Realism, which began in the 1990s in Beijing. Born a year after the Great Leap Forward, his art is heavily influenced by the last fifty years of political upheaval and violence in China, a period that included the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s and 70s, the Sino-Vietnamese War in the early 1980s, and the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre. A central theme to Guo Jian's art derives from his…