Excellent Chinese Oil Painting Artist Shang Yang Art Review

Among today's Chinese Artists, Mr. Shang Yang undoubtedly is one of the most high-profiled oil painting artists. With great concentration on the diversified try of artistic language and deeply discovery in art spirit, as well as his tenacity in the avant-garde exploration and solid artistic skill, profound foundation of traditional culture, he created a series of excellent works of expressionism oil paintings.

The artistic concept of Shang Yang was built on a solid base of visions, in those gentle and grand compositions with visual images, you can see humanistic connotations which is tasteful. His oil painting works not only maintained abstract inherent tensions, but also have some improvised relaxations and humors, and even contained innocent naïve just as kind of smear art. The peculiar beauty in his paintings is original, simple and pure, which sublimed the special painting style of Chinese literati as free and easy, magnanimous.

Shang Yang's oil paining works delivered expressions of spirit as well as language charms. From his works we can not only reading out artist-style speculative philosophy, courage for culture criticism and spirit pursuit, but also his art concepts and aesthetics thoughts.

The art style of Shang Yang with its free and unlimited painting topics, creative picture compositions, rigorous and magnificent colors, devious thoughts and twisted emotions, has show us its infinite beauty and artistic charms.

About Artist Shang Yang:

Mr. Shang Yang, formerly named as Shang Nengquan, come from Kai county Sichuan province in China

Art Career:

In 1965 he graduated from the Department of Fine Arts at Hubei Art Institute, and got a master degree of oil painting from Hubei College of Art in 1981, he stayed in the school and acted as a teacher from then on.

Served as the vice president of the Hubei Institute of Fine Arts, superintendent of the Graduate School of Fine Arts at South China Normal University, council of the Chinese Artists Association, and accepted specialist allowance granted by the State Department.

Now Mr. Shang Yang is acted as professor and graduate student tutor in the Capital Normal University, director of Modern Art Institute at the Capital Normal University, vice chairman of Chinese Society of Oil Painting, as well as member of the Oil Painting Art Council at Chinese Artists Association.

Publications of Shang Yang:

"Shang Yang Painted Portraits"; "Shang Yang Series --- Taste and Assessment Collection of Chinese Modern Art"; "Contemporary Chinese Oil Painting Artist Self-Selected Collection — Shang Yang Works" and so on.