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Zhaohui comments on the filter that observers bring in viewing things such as fine art as a result of what they are exposed to in the modern world. This accounts for the lifeless, muted tone of his paintings. One gets a sense of time in Yin's artwork; the dead tone and shading of the images suggest the decay in an individual's sense of time. Yin's paintings encourage the observer to go inward and contemplate their concept of self and their role as an observer in society. Yin often focuses on the hands and face in his paintings, to further challenge the viewer's ideas about what is natural or real and what is not. Yin also uses a grayscale palette and areas with forced lighting or diffused focus to further emphasize how we perceive these details of the natural human body. The use of human hands and faces stresses an intimate theme in Yin's paintings. The face and the hands, especially in connection to each other, hold many emotional connotations, and both are used in one way or another as a portal to the inner self. His modern art differs from the avant-garde style that many others utilize in China; Yin chooses to retain classical topics and techniques that turn the viewer's attention to the inner self.
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classical techniques and themes". The brothers' artwork has a hold on desolation and solitude. While his brother's artwork involves a more broad perspective of the world, Yin
Zhaohui's artwork has a more intimate focus. Yin Zhaohui draws the viewer inward, and Yin Zhaoyu encourages the viewer to observe their vast surroundings.
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Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2004. Yin is a painter depicting ambiguous scenes of the human form. Yin Zhaohui works mostly with oil paint on canvas. His art consistently features subject matter of the human body, which is painted from photographs rather than
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Yin has a twin brother, Yin Zhaoyu, who displayed artwork alongside his brother in the exhibition “Departures” in 2008 at the Aura
Gallery. Yin Zhaoyu's work most clearly reflected the title of the exhibit with his paintings that depict airports surrounded by a vast space. Both artists "stick to
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This piece which features what appears to be a close-up mass of entwined fingers is perhaps the single piece of artwork that is most recognizable of Yin
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