Yang Yongliang is a Chinese artist and photographer from Shanghai. Born in 1980, he studied traditional Chinese painting and calligraphy before attending the Shanghai Art & Design Academy, where he specialized in decoration and design beginning in 1996. In 1999 he attended the China Academy of Art, Visual Communication Department, Shanghai branch. In 2005 he started his career as an artist with the stated goal of “creating new forms of contemporary art.”
A longtime student and devotee of shanshui, or landscape painting, Yang Yongliang has watched in dismay as a China modernises Yang Yongliang’s approach to saving shanshui is based on retaining its inner essence while updating its subjects and media… They also parallel the ‘despair and sadness’ he feels when he contemplates what is being lost as Shanghai erupts into the 21st century.
Yongliang photographs cityscapes that serve as raw materials for his images. He then alters them in Photoshop, blending them into fantasy landscapes that evoke the traditional Chinese landscape paintings of the past.
China is covered in mountain ranges, some of the most famous include Mount Everest in Tibet, The Five Great Mountains, Changbai Mountain, and Mount Wutai as well as many others.