Chen Yiyan

1896 - 1944

Artist biography

Chen Yiyan was a creative artist, Chen Yiyan was born in 1896 and died in 1944. Artists like Josef Bieber, Jules Boully, Thomas Raymond Ball, Alexander Alpert, and Ernst Aebi were also born in 1896.

Further Biographical Context for Chen Yiyan

Born in 1896, Chen Yiyan's creative work was largely influenced by the 1900s and 1910s. The first decades of the twentieth century were defined by the energetic development of visual and pictorial art. These decades were an time of experimentation, with artists delving into ideas surrounding Post-Impressionism, Expressionism and Abstraction. These developments inspired artist communities and collectives around the world, with many groups developing different methods of communicating their ideas. The first twenty years of the twentieth century are viewed as the period in art history where modernist and modern ideas initially began to have cultural effects. They were a prolific time in the art world, and industrial advances such as mechanisation led to other disciplines such as architecture, led by the work of Le Corbusier and Gerrit Rietveld, to develop at an equally high rate. The idea of a common discipline across all modes of art was epitomised in the Bauhaus movement, which became a leading way of thinking about art. These philosophies that we associate today with modern and contemporary art can be traced back to the diverse range of artworks produced at this time.

Chen Yiyan

