ZHONG CHENG

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Illustrated：ILLUSTRATED: "Jing Shen -Yang Guoxin’s Works," Ling Nan Art Publishing House, 2011, Page 32

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Born in 1951 in Wuhan, Hubei Province, Yang Guoxin graduated from the Hubei Fine Arts Academy with a Master’s degree in 1991. He is currently a professor at the South China Normal University School of Fine Arts, specialized in oil painting and ceramics. Yang Guoxin and Wang Guangyi are recognized as the main leaders of 90s political Pop Art Movement in China. Yang Guixin pays careful attention to life’s details, what others disregard would become his main source of inspiration.
Yang Guoxin’s creative process involves the technological manipulation of fundamental material, this in result examines the impact of digitalization on our visual experience. He first inputs basic imageries into his computer, where the images are then given new dimension and texture. Lastly he would transfer the image on to his canvas by hand. In Yang perspective, this is an important and substantive process. This procedure blurred the conventional boundaries of virtual and realism, subjective and objective, commercial and fine arts. The final image takes form after photographic realism.
In the following series “Legend-Jiangnan,” English translation of traditional literature and poems are transferred onto the painting surface. The paintings depicts a deep cobalt blue, within the image are obscure form that symbolizes the artist’s memory. The memory is beyond the image of region, but more concerning the cultural attention to tradition and reality. The composition of historical content and contemporary quality represents this new style of painting.