Lu Yansheng has a special appreciation for color. In his works, color composition takes on a unique character - bright yet elegant, complex yet integrated. More than 30 years ago, Lu Yansheng was a member of the Underground Arts Movement during the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976). Since then, having experienced every aspect of the tumultuous history of contemporary Chinese art, he has sought to express in various ways the radical, rebellious mentality of the 1960s, as well as his particular understanding of the art scene during the Cultural Revolution. Being at the forefront of China's avant-garde art scene and based on his professional training at one of China's finest art institutions, the Central Academy of Fine Arts, he contributed in significant ways to the faceted artistic spirit of his generation and its times - a spirit that sought to combine and amalgamate the old and new, western and traditional Chinese elements of artistic expression. Indeed, from the 1970s to the 1990s, the Chinese art scene witnessed an unprecedented fusion of artistic concepts, techniques and ideas that culminated in the emergence of a novel artistic spirit, imprinted by a search for a national cultural identity. The result was the emergence of a multi-cultural yet distinctly Chinese art scene that took modern and traditional elements as its building blocks to create in a dialectical fashion a novel Chinese art style. Perhaps, the real meaning of Chinese postmodernism is to be found in this newly established middle ground, and it is precisely the works by Lu Yansheng that are an expression of this artistic ideal.