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Fang Lijun: Works Catalogue

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There are hundreds of writers evaluating Fang Lijun’s works. The number of the texts has  passed one thousand. Everyone interpreted Fang in their or others’ own way, affixing with all kinds of labels, making all kinds of judgments, which includes positive ones, neutral ones and negative ones. This has turned him into a hodgepodge public figure. This let me, the chief editor, recalled that Napoleon had one hundred and more biographies during and after his lifetime in praise, or curse, or both, In this case, Napoleon was turned into a figure with multiaspect. This increased the difficulty of late-comers’ recognizing his true features. Accumulated large numbers of ideas without independent judgments not only disturb audience’s impressions, but also contain the artist. Even if the autobiography will be affected. That’s because during the process of shaping Fang Lijun by public opinion, especially those positive and neutral interpretations, the artist probably will adopt a coordinating or tolerant attitude. The result of this is that people will confuse whether the shaped figure is his ego state or planned by others. In this situation, I want to steer clear of all the existing comments, and will not quote long paragraphs of accounts in his own words, but find a new logical sequence as one witness of this era, and infer why the art circle has kept focusing on Fang Lijun for 20 years in broad outline.