Yao Lu is a Chinese artist who used computer manipulations to create photomontages that resemble traditional Chinese paintings to address the environmental problems in China. His paintings reveal the rampant path towards urbanization. He used the classical Chinese landscape painting aesthetics to depict fan shaped, or scroll like paintings. However, if one looks closely at the imageries, one would see construction sites, landfills, and trash.
"His recycling of a traditional aesthetic to approach contemporary issue reveals the tension between society's past and present values. Lu's environmental message crosses borders and raises pressing questions about the hidden costs of modernization and global sustainability."
Some of his paintings are showing currently at Gottesman Library outside of room 305.
Reference: http://www.brucesilverstein.com/artists/yao-lu
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