PAN YUE

BIOGRAPHY

A graduate of the Beijing School of Fine Arts, Pan Yue spent six months at the Beaux-Arts de Paris to perfect his training. Like the art students of yesteryear, we imagine that Pan Yue paced the length and breadth of Parisian museums, contemplating masterpieces. He chooses to pay homage to painting and is particularly interested in the nineteenth century and in the artists that initiated the renaissance of subjects that inspired the avant-gardes of the early twentieth century. Having become a photographer, Pan Yue cites the "fire ships" of art, such as Goya's La maja desnuda (1805) and Manet's The Luncheon on the Grass (1862–1863), which were scandalous at the time.  ... See more See less