A leader in the cynical realism" movement, Fang dropped out of a high school to study ceramics at a local university in Hebei before taking up printmaking at the prestigious Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. His graduate project featured a series of oil paintings, a move that thumbed its nose at the academy's printmaking department, and introduced the bald figure that would repeat throughout his work. The expressions on the echoed man's face vary, but the countenance emotes a feeling that is utterly relatable and simultaneously indescribable