Feng Zhengjie B. 1968

"In his most recent works, the artist borrowed the manner of popular culture and images to depict reality without any judgment. Just like Gaudy and Pop art, Feng employs existing images as well, yet, in his circumstance, the antitype of these images is of no importance at all. What matters here is that Feng Zhengjie has successfully developed a set of images based on these contemporary visual data. His works appear to be like those exaggerated, transformative photographs, yet, as a matter of fact, they were produced artificially out of imagination. While painting his images, the artist abandons all ethical judgments. If Gaudy Art is spiritually centered on irony, then Feng Zhengjie's spiritual core, by borrowing techniques from commercial culture and popular culture, is to develop a new aesthetic interest and novel means to process images, and to demonstrate the mechanism of producing contemporary commercial images through imitation, counterfeit and rewriting."

Transcending Meretriciousness by Pi Li, in Feng Zhengjie (Ming Art, 2005), p10