Cheng Conglin, a Chinese contemporary oil painter born in 1954, is one of the representative figures of Scar Art. He once taught at Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, maintaining an attention to real life in both his creative work and his teaching. The one work by him in this collection is People of Liangshan, commonly classified under culture; its subject points to the people and life of the Liangshan region, observed from a perspective close to the land. Public information about him is currently limited, so his writing and painting cannot be described in detail in this short space. What can be confirmed is that his artistic practice shares the concern of Scar Art with individual experience and historical memory. Readers who begin with People of Liangshan may sense his effort to present local people and affairs in a plain manner, and the quiet, realistic quality of the work within cultural reading.
