Zhu Yiqing & Xue Yongjun use seals, which is a symbol of authority in Chinese culture, as their basic elements of artworks. No matter whether be paintings or the wood carving sculpture, all showing their tireless effort to eliminate the boundaries between eastern and western culture, the native and the foreign, the traditional and the modern, the handmade and the machinery as well as the 2D and the 3D. The artworks, with features of digital era, demonstrated independence and freedom of the artists while facing the spiritual and psychological issue of modern people.
Wu Zhengyan, took colorful, Chinese folk art ornamental cotton and silk as her main medium for creation. And most of her artworks painted on silk recently. More than a thousand years ago, silk was the most important trade good from China to the Western world; in fact, the world famous Silk Road became the route of cultural exchange for Chinese, Indian, and Greek civilization. The discerning selection for the medium, and the way she juxtapose different cultural symbols on the picture, reflected the deep concerns to the sense of being and cultural context of Chinese people, which showed the contemporariness in her artworks.
Cheng Yong, as a rare classical realist painter in his generation, is established himself in the personal existence and cultural contexts. With an open mind, he took advantage of globalization and assimilated a good deal from it. Under his vivid realistic skills, Cheng Yong is unremittingly trying to further exploring the origin of Chinese culture.
Looking back to history, the great arts handed down from the past, were exactly the contemporary art at that time; and today’s new Chinese contemporary art scene would also leave its clear food prints in the history of the future.