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This print is the second in the Artificial Wonderland series and is an example of the vertical landscape style. In this work, Yang has copied the imagery of the traditional master but has removed all of the calligraphic elements. By removing the…

The earliest of Yang’s works in the exhibition, this piece represents the beginnings of Yang’s stylistic experimentation. In viewing his earlier work, it becomes apparent how his later works more strongly exemplify the aesthetic and emotional…

The second print in a larger series, Viridescence focuses specifically on the short lived tradition of blue-green landscape painting, that emphasized bright, vivid hues of blue and green. This work shows Yang Yongliang experimenting with the…

This work Artificial Wonderland takes reference from Yan Wengui’s Buildings Among Mountains and Rivers from the Song Dynasty. Yang’s work reinterprets the landscape of the old master, following the traditional mode of referencing past works.

An example from the Peach Blossom Colony series, this work follows in the style of Zhao Mengfu’s handscroll of the same title. The subject of the scene is Xie Youyu, a scholar-official who is portrayed seated across from a stream in a landscape of…

This print comes from the Peach Blossom Colony series, which was Yang’s initial foray into placing human figures into his works, using actors as stand-ins for members of the literati class. Rather that attempting to recreate a landscape painting,…

Yang Yongliang's reinterpretation of Fan Kuan's work of the same title.

This composite photograph takes the form of a panoramic handscroll that presents a succession of towering mountains wreathed in mist and surrounded by expanses of open water. But upon closer examination, the majestic mountains are revealed to be…

The imagery and composition for this work was taken from Xu Daoning’s Fisherman’s Evening Song, a Northern Song hand scroll.

The composition of this work was taken from Qu Ding’s "Summer Mountains", a hand scroll from the Northern Song Dynasty. With this recognizable infusion of history, the work expresses an apocalyptic foreboding for the China of today