Curious, I was still a bit surprised when I opened the picture of the work that Yang Na passed to me. It's amazing! And it's quite natural to flaunt! This is what I am filled with emotion and joy. Like many young artists, Yang Na likes to convey her insights into life through both real and illusory language and concepts. Unlike previous generations of artists, her insights are very concrete: beauty, beauty, wine, and various beautiful and unreal things are fiercely piled up by the artist, creating illusory and confusing images. I have never felt this kind of image in general cartoon painting, but I did feel it here in Yangna.
The era of Yang Na's growth was a period of rapid political and economic development in China. The long historical tradition and advanced rapid development have made China, a very comprehensive and complex country, exceptionally active, diverse, and full of various possibilities. The elite culture of modernism and the cultural logic of Postmodernism are mixed in all aspects of life, and self and society have become infinitely inflated and contradictory. As artists who are in a state of cold-eyed observation of the world, they use their unique and sharp eyes to care about the development of society, discover problems, and ask questions. Yang Na discovered her feelings for social development and changes with the eyes of a woman, and expressed her personal survival experience with a paintbrush. The rapid development of society has also brought cultural phenomena that contradict traditional morality, "That is vanity. In this era full of foam, auditions, false votes, vulgar politics, digital economy, beauty effect, and beautiful advertisements make people forget the existence of danger and pain. People are used to using packaging to evaluate people or things. Young girls want to exchange love for jewelry. On the front of the newspaper is the real estate market and money. On the back of the newspaper is plastic surgery and breast enhancement. Inconsistent things are colorful and beautiful because of the coverage of foam, but the truth is always It will surface (Quoted from an interview with Yang Na) The beautiful image of NANA in Yang Na's works is charming and full of feelings of narcissism and self. The combination of exaggerated cartoon images and delicate and realistic skin depictions is seamless, making people feel both real and unreal. This is precisely the feeling brought by this era, where the boundary between reality and illusion is blurred by commercialization, networking, and globalization. Among them, people often find it difficult to find themselves, despite their pursuit of individuality and self. Being alienated by material things is no longer something that celebrities like Marilyn Monroe face, but a problem that every person born in this era must face and think about.
Yang Na's works often appear in micro dramatic scenes, but it seems like a huge Noah's Ark carrying a large number of characters and information, with many fashionable and classic images and characters stuffed in by her; Or it could be a bathtub like a stage setting crowded with various symbols and Miss NANA that Yang Na is paying attention to and referencing. In this composition, it is the material replacement of Yang Na's spiritual imagination space, and can also be extended to the symbolic symbol expression of the huge and empty material world. The various elements that fill these spaces, such as luxurious furniture, charming female images, exaggerated organs that express sexual desire, and various images with "anime aesthetics" and "violent aesthetics", are Yang Na's personal emotional world.
