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Yan Heng captures his personal experiences and social ideology in his work. Yan Heng’s work is inspired by his ordinary and simple everyday life, as he combines people, used ob-jects and incidents that surround him in his life. Combining old broken electronic objects and painting in one surface, his works reflect the artist’s critical stance on man’s excessive reli-ance on objects that invade the human cogni-tive domain. The Geometric series criticize the learning by rote that prioritizes conventional delivering of knowledge regardless of individ-ual leaning ability and compulsory education which sets aside individual ability and character and functions simply for authority and social maintenance. Through combining faces that run contradictory and unrelated to each other, the artist encourages us to transcend beyond the confined realm of standardized ways of thought, to multi-dimensional world of limit-less thinking.

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Absinthe·Pont Marie by Yan Heng contemporary artwork painting, works on paper, sculpture
Yan Heng Absinthe·Pont Marie, 2019 布面油画装置 Oil and installation on canvas
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Absinthe-Belleville 1 苦艾酒-美丽城 1 by Yan Heng contemporary artwork painting, works on paper, sculpture, photography, print
Yan Heng Absinthe-Belleville 1 苦艾酒-美丽城 1, 2021 Oil on canvas, mixed media installation 布面油画、装置综合材料
143 x 268 cm
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Poem Porn·Kiko No.2 by Yan Heng contemporary artwork painting, works on paper, sculpture, photography, print
Yan Heng Poem Porn·Kiko No.2, 2019 综合材料 Mixed media
138 x 138 cm
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Absinthe-Belleville 2 苦艾酒-美丽城 2 by Yan Heng contemporary artwork painting, works on paper, sculpture, photography, print
Yan Heng Absinthe-Belleville 2 苦艾酒-美丽城 2, 2021 Oil on canvas, mixed media installation 布面油画、装置综合材料
143 x 268 cm
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肖像 1 | Portrait No.1 by Yan Heng contemporary artwork painting, works on paper
Yan Heng 肖像 1 | Portrait No.1, 2020 布面油画 Oil on canvas
50 x 50 cm
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海 | Sea by Yan Heng contemporary artwork painting, works on paper, sculpture, photography, print
Yan Heng 海 | Sea, 2018-2019 布面综合材料及装置 Mixed media on canvas and installation
166 x 216 cm
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Ocula presents comprehensive online access to a diverse number of artworks by a broad range of artists. On Ocula you can find artworks by well-known established artists as well as emerging artists.

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Using the tools within Ocula you can learn more about the artist who created the work, share the artwork with others, and enquire as to its availability for purchase, and also its price. Defining contemporary art is both complex and controversial, but the decision to place an artwork within the category usually rests on one requirement: namely, that the artwork was created in the current century, regardless of its medium.

Beyond this simplistic definition, however, it can be difficult to pin down any universal principles that bind the pieces produced by 21st-century artists—though perhaps diversity itself might be understood as a general theme. Developing in parallel with the prevalent theory of postmodernism, contemporary art shares a commitment to pluralism and variety (rather than, that is, to stability and straightforward truth).

Some commentators speak of 'modern contemporary art', with this term's conflation of the modern art and the contemporary art models pointing to the murky boundary that separates the early 20th-century modernist movement from the sprawling latter movement that has ruled the art scene in recent decades.

The two are indeed connected—with the contemporary fine arts essentially an outgrowth of the modern movement—but what definitively separates them is the clear set of principles that all modernist artworks share, as opposed to the relatively absent criteria surrounding contemporary artworks.

For all its experimentalism, though, contemporary art is not entirely anti-traditional, as semblances of prior artistic conditions—be that modernism, impressionism, or realism—can be found hidden within many works. Long-established ideas like the anti-establishment role of art and the artist in society continue to prevail in the contemporary art scene, with visionary creatives across the globe often using their talents to make political statements through art.

The diversity of contemporary art is reflected in the many different artworks presented on the pages of Ocula. On these pages you will find artworks ranging from watercolour paintings, acrylic paintings, oil paintings, video artworks, sculptures, conceptual artworks to fine art photography and prints. Many of these artworks are for sale and you can make an enquiry directly to the Ocula member gallery representing the relevant artist.

In Ocula Magazine, an even wider range of artworks are referenced, including performance works. In considering the artworks on Ocula, we encourage you to not view them in isolation, but to consider how the work might fit into the artist's practice by reading the artist's profile, how the work relates to the artist's exhibition history and by exploring the articles written by Ocula Magazine and / or other publications on the artist.

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