Liu Wei, who graduated from the printmaking department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, is one of the leading representatives of Cynical Realism. For a long time Liu Wei has always overturned the aesthetic habits of viewers with his symbolic painting and composition way. Most of his works are deal with landscapes, flowers, birds, children, soldiers and matters like these. Liu Wei is always pursuing new attempts of art creation. Sometimes he makes it easily and causally to exert freewheeling art issues vividly in a very subtle way. He doesn't like to repeat himself and once said, " I will never do the same thing after they're done." The art critic Li Xianting also praises Liu Wei as a "talented painter".

The work "Flowers" was created in 2006. It is the main representative subject of the artist recently. Indescribably exquisiteness and beauty has been made during his interpreting of the causal and fickle shapes of flowers, colors, and painting styles. However, the representations of leaves show his wild character thoroughly. The artist paints freely in a trickling and gentle way to make the picture full of vitality and power.