Yin Zhaoyang was born in Henan in 1970, graduated from the engraving department of China Central Academy of Fine Arts. He was praised as one of the most symbolic artist of the '70s, and is a representative of "the young and cruel painting". His paintings focus on narration, image concepts and aesthetic tastes, his groundbreaking experiments and thinking profundities influenced many avant-garde paintings of the '90s. His paintings held an important position in the late '90s realisit paintings of China.

Yin is one of the best painters of the '70s, and good at realizing people on canvas; he's also good at presenting the complexity of human nature and revealing his inner self, which is also uncommon among earlier generations.

He used his sharp brush strokes to brilliantly demonstrate youth's passion, spirit, confrontation, struggle, confusion, sadness, or even a little sense of pain. He used ceremonial styles and scenes to present human's inner thoughts, premonitions and signs. Some kind of danger lies inside the picture but there are also some uncertain forces and strengths within, he used the lights, sunshine, rainbows, temperature, shades, forms and looks to note down the growth of people from a generation, either physically or emotionally, and that's why his paintings are so stunning.

Yin placed paintings as one's key point of introspection, sensitively summarized the life of youths at a time. These situations come through dramatic visions and narrative tensions, presented the human dilemma and self-contradiction in the post-conscious period in this era. His paintings opened a door for people who were born in the 70's and their sadness.