Yu Shaoping studied oil painting at first, then he engaged in performance art, and finally transferred to China traditional culture. His change represents the current trend of thought in China's fine arts and reflects one aspect of the trend of thought in China's fine arts. He is not alone, and this phenomenon is a little universal. In the first half of 198s, when the exhibition of western cultural information and art came to China, it aroused the extensive interest of young people in China. At that time, young people eagerly studied and studied western modern art. China's contemporary art has fiercely produced a new artistic trend of thought, which is called the "Eighth Five-Year New Trend", and Yugong was involved in it at that time.
After he had a certain understanding of western art, he felt that western art could not satisfy him to express his thoughts and feelings, express his emotions and express his creative desire. He was not fully satisfied in this modern art, and he saw the shortcomings and defects of western modern ideas. At this time, the whole trend of China's art thought was to return to tradition, that is, he began to accept traditional art, traditional calligraphy and traditional literati painting, which seemed to open a door for him here. After going in, he found that there were many artistic treasures, including traditional paintings in China and traditional calligraphy in China, which he didn't know much about in the past. After going in, he found it attractive to him, and the traditional art in China was very attractive. An avant-garde theorist once said such a thing. He said that for some reason, whenever he came into contact with traditional literati painting, he was led by the nose and was fascinated by literati painting, and so was Yu Gong. From the early 199s to the early 21st century, he has spent more than 1 years. During these 1 years, he carefully studied traditional calligraphy and traditional literati painting, and he was able to go deep into them.