Born in 1960s, Yang Shaobin has lived the up-and-down of contemporary Chinese art. He is among the first artists who took a corner of Yuan Ming Yuan (Winter Palace) as their homes. When the artists¡¯ village in Yuan Ming Yuan was dismissed, he migrated to Song village with his fellow artists. Yang Shaobin¡¯s is famous for his ¡°Violence Esthetic¡±. Once a fellow of Fang Lijun and Yue Minjun, Yang Shaobin could hardly accept the popular ¡°Cynical Realism¡± as his own style and tried all his best to find a proper way to express his own thoughts and feelings. ¡°Violence Esthetic¡± came out to be his way. There are always huge amount of dark red in his paintings and his brush strokes are brutally crude. Yang Shaobin has admitted that all his paintings were inspired by contemporary political events because he wanted to express his opinions towards these events through his paintings. Yang Shaobin has created a series dominated by the images of policemen and soldiers since 1993, and the Keep Fighting as Life Goes on is one of them. The prototype of the soldiers in this painting was taken from a famous poster during the period of Cultural Revolution, which represented a conflict between China and Soviet Union. The image of soldiers, who are the representatives of politics, expresses the heroism in Yang Shaobin¡¯s unconscious and his attention towards international political events. The dark green and crude brushstrokes in the painting created a sense of violence that is typical of Yang Shaobin¡¯s works. The artistic skills applied to the painting are rather simple, especially to the landscape in the midst of the painting. The brushstrokes are so crude and full of sense of movement that we feel that the soldier is rushing toward us with hostility in his eyes. He is rushing for a fight. Yang Shaobin is good at depicting the scene of violence indifferently. It seems that he is born with a sense of violence, which is expressed again and again in his works.