
Chinese-based artist Yang Yongliang uses a combination of photography and photo manipulation techniques to recreate traditional Chinese art.
Although Yang was trained in traditional painting and calligraphy from childhood, he aims to preserve ancient Chinese aesthetics through modern methods instead.
"I was born to create with a Chinese mind. At the same time, I was born in the Information Age, where technology grows fast, and new media and photography are handy tools for me”, Yang said.
"Tools change by time, but the traditional Chinese methods of thinking don't."
Yang also fears that Chinese art will go extinct if it does not keep up with the times. His work is in some ways also an act of preservation and conservation.
"In the future we'll only be able to see traditional Chinese art and calligraphy in museums because the structure of our current living conditions and changing cityscape won't allow this art form to survive. I've been thinking of a way to get Chinese art to thrive and continue in a new vein," he said.




[via Slate, images via Yang Yongliang]