"I'm actually trying to make sense of the world. There's nothing cynical or absurd in what I do," says Chinese painter Yue MinJun, about his series of chesire-cat-grinning self-portraits. Yue is accused of being a "cynical realist," but insists that his works are more concerned with exploring reality than with criticizing it. However they are interpreted, his artwork is colorful and bright; amusing and simultaneously disturbing, as it points to the aggregiously showy and loud facade that covers the bleak truths of an inhospitable society. For a more eloquent take on Yue's recent work: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/13/arts/design/13smil.html
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