Yang Guangli - Recommended Artists' Fine Works by Chinese Galleries

Author: Jia Dejiang
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Publish Date: 2006-10-01
Features: Yang Guangli is one of the few painters in contemporary China's figure painting scene who lacks an aesthetic tendency. He has also broken the long-standing dominant self-expressive tendency in literati painting, which has been one of Yang Guangli's active efforts over the years. He is a narrative painter, thereby broadening the context. Among the mature painters in Shaanxi, he is one of the few who has transitioned from the "small self" to the "big self" and carries the weight of the world and the people. His artistic realm far surpasses that of ordinary painters who possess mature brushwork and talent. He is also a true creative painter. These are the foundations upon which we recognize and enter these grand and majestic works. He is a painter who has given realism the ability to reproduce, as he returns to the raw source of life and, after undergoing various refinements and manipulations of historical language, reverts to the simple earth. His creation is also an explosion from within realism. If placed within the specific field of modern Chinese ink-wash figure painting and observed from a historical perspective, he is an extreme painter who has gone too far and cannot return to his early radical period. This radicalism is not in terms of words or actions, nor in terms of ways of thinking or artistic concepts, but in terms of the nature of his work. This is the historical paradox of aesthetics.