当今中国油画坛笼罩着希望之光。油画英才拔地而起。在东北这块黑土地上又出现了一个青年油画家杨成国,引起人们的瞩目。他是一位少言寡语的人,性格内向,深沉,勤于琢磨。也是一位认定了目标就不回头的人。正因如此,作为“文革”后的第一批七七届学员,在鲁迅美术学院油画系毕业后,就一直埋头于教学与艺术上的探索。近些年,正当大家都在忙于办个人画展或忙于应付艺术市场的压力时,却独独很少见到杨成国的踪影。原来他在远离沈阳市的乡村,租到了一个农村俱乐部的空空荡荡的大房子。远离了都市的尘嚣,不怕冷落,甘于寂寞,甘于过一张行军床、一个电炉子的苦行僧式的生活.舍弃了许多人生本该享受的乐趣,以致和他的妻子、儿子也都难得团聚。独处村野,专心致志的进行他的艺术追求,真是一个以艺术为第一生命的人。在这里他画了满满一屋子的都是大幅的油画。当我第一次被邀请来到这里时,我简直为这个 Today’s Chinese oil painting shrouds the light of hope. Oil painting talent to stand up. Yang Chengguo, a young oil painter, appeared again on this black land in the northeast and aroused people’s attention. He is a silent man, introverted, deep, hardworking. It’s also a man who does not look back on the target. For this reason, as the first seventy-seven students after the “Cultural Revolution”, after graduating from the Oil Painting Department of the Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts, they have been deeply immersed in the exploration of teaching and art. In recent years, just as everyone is busy with personal art exhibitions or is busy coping with the pressure of the art market, he rarely sees Yang Chengguo alone. It turned out he was away from the city of Shenyang City, rented a rural club empty big house. Away from the hubbub of the city, not afraid of the cold, willing to loneliness, willing to have a camp bed, an electric stove ascetic style life, give up the pleasures of many life, so that his wife and son are also rare reunion. Solitary village, dedicated his pursuit of art, is really a art as the first life. Here he drew a large painting full of paintings. When I first came here invited, I was just this one