Yue Minjun is famous for his portraits of cackling figures that reference archetypes of the laughing Buddha and the devil. Having sold upwards of 3.7 million USD, Yue is one of China’s most expensive living artists. Although Yue is predominantly a painter, he also works across sculpture and printmaking. In his work, garish pink figures wear symbolic costumes and often appear in large groups like an army or a crowd of protestors. With his pop and surrealist-inspired aesthetic, as well as traditional motifs lifted from across Chinese and European iconography, Yue reinterprets traditional and modernist painting into his own form of contemporary satire.