NEW CHINESE

The figures in the painting sit around a table with many microphones separately standing before them. The microphones suggest that everyone may speak as they want. Those figures show different facial expressions and gestures. Some are listening; some are debating; some are longing; some are meditating. The whole painting shows the atmosphere of propitiousness, democracy, equality and harmony.

Jia Gang's figure design of this "New Chinese" (representing a new generation of Chinese people) is mainly inspired by the paintings of beautiful women in the Tang Dynasty. All the figures in Jia's painting are endowed with sweet and lovely appearances with cherry-like mouths, upward-bending eyes, blushing faces, and narrow and feminine shoulders.

Ja Gang's art features rich sensibility and realistic existence of the figures via gestures and body language, and advocates the idea of equality, harmony and happiness in true life.