Painting by Yun-Fei Ji, Bunk Bed(acrylic on canvas, 24" x 30", 2022). The image illustrates a key later body of work by Yun-Fei Ji's in the 2020s: his acrylic on canvas paintings which signaled a significant shift both in medium and subject matter and furthered the global, universal nature of his themes. These less expressionist works painted in thickly applied, dry, chalky colors emphasized interplays of abstraction and representation, flat pattern and volumetric form. The imagery—as in this work—frequently focused on juxtapositions of Matisse-like dappled light and clutter, with the disarray of jumbled belongings on streets and hasty departures creating tonal shifts between gaiety and gravitas. This work was publicly exhibited in prominent exhibitions, discussed in major art journals and daily press publications.

Artist Yun-Fei Ji. Copyright held by the artist.

Yun-Fei Ji

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a key later body of work by Yun-Fei Ji in the 2020s, when he made a significant turn toward new imagery (flowers, a portrait) and new medium (acrylic on canvas) that further conveyed the global, universal nature of his subject matter—contemporary stories of survival amid ecological and social disruption driven by industrialization and modernization. These paintings were stylistically less caricatured or expressionist than his characteristic scroll paintings, They were painted in thickly applied, dry, chalky colors that exploited the saturation and opacity of acrylic and created interplay between abstraction and representation, flat pattern and volumetric form. Because the article is about an artist and his work, the omission of the image would significantly limit a reader's understanding and ability to understand this key later body of work and shift in his overall art, which brought Ji continuing recognition through exhibitions and coverage by major critics and publications. Ji's work of this type and this work itself is discussed in the article and by critics cited in the article.

There is no free equivalent of this or any other of this series by Yun-Fei Ji, so the image cannot be replaced by a free image.

The image will not affect the value of the original work or limit the copyright holder's rights or ability to distribute the original due to its low resolution and the general workings of the art market, which values the actual work of art. Because of the low resolution, illegal copies could not be made.