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Comment on the works of Fang Shaohua

The holiness of classis is destructed and the rational spirit of critic is overshadowed by the anxious thinking of reality in fang Shaohua’s image world. A civilized visual experience that absorbs the manner of expressionism delivers the Chinese experience of Fang: a spiritual symbol of personal will… we feel the pizzazz of smooth and clean and the undercurrent of an inner passion. Through it we have found the contemporary sense and charm that are brought by a simple yet rich and powerful picture that reveals a mentality-pursued brutality.

The newly works of Fang express an overlap of historical culture and memory that has been forgotten. Maybe only a one-colored cloth is made after a process of repeated scribbling. As the generation of information comes, life styles, concepts and cultural values have been shocked and shifted. Those should not be forgotten are stepping into extinction, the labyrinth of culture, the basic position of art, the acknowledgment of value, the recycle of traditional culture, the conflict between the ancient and modern civilization and all the cultural issues have been recalled to the painting. Fang uses his familiar visual language to destroy the certainty of art history and at the same time teases the loyalty of art. He not only presents the story of our era but also doubts the moral norm that has become more and more kitsch and superficial. Of course fang’s unique perceptivity and acute sense have been showed through the expansion of power capitalism, criticism and doubt of the modernism in the image world.   

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