Voice of the East

Cao Yong’s "Voice of the Orient" converges the past and the present into a meaningful whole. The magnanimous bird’s eye view and the depiction of the ancient past reveal the artist’s emotions and passions, which spans a vast space-time continuum. This is truly an epic on canvas. From this perspective, ” Voice of the Orient” is about the motherland and its culture. For Cao Yong, who has lived abroad for so long, cultural values are not a set of values impregnated from childhood, but they are his cultural genes which molds his being. The motherland is not an empty ideology but the basis for human dignity and the source of national pride. The homage he paid upon return from his distant travels is an acknowledgement and ode of the 21st Century.