Done in his figurative style with colorful lines, this portrait makes the fashion statement that wearing glasses, especially without lenses, has become. It was chosen for inclusion in a book: 2011 Chinese Contemporary Art, so, we are not the only ones who think it's special.
It is a portrait of Tang's high school teacher who dressed very fashionably and was very popular. Then, he went off to Beijing to start a business and ended up getting arrested for dealing drugs: not the kind of fashionable one should want to be.