The exhibition, which mainly displays Yang Canjun’s work series based on visual experience since 1995, consists of over 100 pieces of works on 3 themes: history, image and homeland. Yang Canjun is one of the representatives of China contemporary figurative expressionist oil painting and an influential oil painter and art educator. His oil paintings include history painting, figure painting, landscape painting as well as still life. His works are mixed and disorganized in color, vigorous, vivid and magnificent in way of expression, which implies his learning from drawing technique of western oil painting and reflections to Chinese traditional culture. Yang Canjun’s works have one’s life connect with existing destiny from the origin and show a strong appeal.
*image (left) Yang Canjun, The Earth No. 2, 2012 Oil on canvas, 200×400cm courtesy of the artist