Name: Sun Wukong in Contemporary Times - 19.7'' × 23.6''
Brand: ZHANGYONGJIU
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Sun Wukong in Contemporary Times - 19.7'' × 23.6''

$1,105.00 USD

Sun Wukong in Contemporary Times - 19.7'' × 23.6''

$1,105.00 USD

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Artist: Zhang Yongjiu
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Canvas Size: 50 × 60 cm（19.7 ‘× 23.6 ’）
Framed Size: 60× 70 cm（23.6‘× 27.6 ’）
Year: 2026
Frame: solid wood gold oil painting frame
Artwork ID: MBA-2026-09
Authenticity: Original · One of a Kind · Signed Certificate of Authenticity

In Chinese cultural tradition, Sun Wukong is one of the most dynamic and recognizable mythological figures. In Sun Wukong in Contemporary Times, the artist does not revisit heroic conflict or mythic drama, but instead places this character within the ordinary conditions of contemporary life.

The composition features a vivid red ground, populated by figures, animals, fire, stars, and primitive, rock-like symbols. The scene carries a fairy-tale quality, built through a direct and easily readable visual narrative rather than layered symbolism or conceptual tension.

Here, Sun Wukong no longer functions as a mythological hero, but is transformed into a contemporary individual—an everyday presence shaped by modern surroundings. This shift is not intended to suggest struggle or confrontation, but to reflect how mythical identities dissolve into ordinary life when placed in the present.

The combination of bright color and narrative imagery is characteristic of the artist’s consistent practice. Through a straightforward, story-driven visual language, the work invites immediate engagement and accessibility, allowing viewers to enter the scene without interpretive barriers.

Executed in acrylic on canvas, the painting employs saturated color and clear composition to establish a distinctive narrative style rooted in openness, clarity, and continuity.

Zhang Yongjiu

Zhang Yongjiu (b. 1954) is a contemporary painter and writer whose artistic practice moves from realism toward dreams, memory, and inner vision.
With decades of experience as a published author and a member of the China Writers Association, his paintings are shaped by a deep literary sensibility, emphasizing metaphor, psychological space, and intellectual reflection.

Zhang began painting later in life, bringing to the medium a rare clarity of purpose and independence from academic convention.
Rather than depicting the external world, his recent works—primarily in acrylic and oil—explore inner experience, where fragments of dreams, emotion, and memory surface with quiet intensity.

For Zhang Yongjiu, painting is not a display of technique, but a form of inner writing—an honest and reflective process that gives visual form to what is felt, remembered, and imagined.