Contemporary Chinese painter, Zeng Fanzhi, is best known for his Expressionist and psychologically probing portraits. He depicts human faces with vivid and lively brushworks that can at times border on abstraction. Having lived through the Cultural Revolution, Zeng often focuses on this experience in his work and critically explores the rapidly changing face of contemporary Chinese culture. Zeng studied painting at the Hubei Academy of Fine Art. In 2008 his painting Mask Series 1996 No.6 (1996) broke auction records and became the highest-grossing work by a contemporary Asian artist.