Yang Dongying

Modern Impressive Super-Flat Sculpture- Dynasty Qing Lacquer Wood- Untitled I

2020

Yang Dongying is a Chinese artist born in 1980 in Inner Mongolia who lives and works in Beijing, China. He studied art and design with the famous Chinese Contemporary artist Bu Di. His artworks have been collected by Guan Shan Yue Art Museum, Chinese Sculpture Museum, GuanFu Art Museum. The highly conceptual series draw materials from the rocks of Chinese Gardens. Garden rocks, often viewed as mountains -the larger world of nature in microcosm, often supplanted actual scenery as sources of inspiration for images of landscape. Whether it’s garden design or Chinese landscape painting, one of the most important considerations is the harmonious arrangement of elements expressing different aspects of yin (metaphor of feminity) and yang (metaphor of masculinity). In this series, the artist uses digital techniques to combine the image of flower (feminity) and rocks (masculinity), expressing the vitality of life. Behind the simple lines lie an outstanding creating ability of lines that have long set the artist apart. The pink color, along with the implied meaning of Spring in the title of work suggests implicitly the repressed sexual concept in East, which reveals in a moderate tone the artist’s insight about Chinese culture.