Wang Yongxue

Born in 1981 in Tieling, Liaoning, he graduated from the Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts with a master’s degree and currently works and lives in Beijing.

Wang Yongxue’s recent painting creations mainly revolve around two themes: bamboo forests and sandbars. In traditional Chinese culture, bamboo symbolizes the noble and resilient spirit of a gentleman, and literati have never hesitated to praise and write about it. In the history of Chinese painting, Su Shi’s “Xiaoxiang Bamboo and Rock” and Wen Tong’s “Ink Bamboo” are both widely acclaimed masterpieces. Sandbars, however, are rarely subjects in traditional Chinese painting. In the 1940s, artists such as Guan Shanyue, Li Xiongcai, and Wu Zuoren sketched the snowy plateau and desert Gobi during their journeys to the west, and landscapes of sandbars were then incorporated into the imagery spectrum of Chinese painting history.