Image, Fantasy, an exhibition at the National Art Museum of China, shows works by Ou Yang and Yang Ying. [Photo provided to China Daily]

Ou Yang is recognized as a home-grown painter who pioneered a movement in the mid-1980s to usher the creation of oil paintings in China into a higher spiritual realm. 

Rising to fame for her distinctive style, Ou shifted to an abstract approach to painting by reducing physical likenesses. She seeks to present a poetic touch with philosophical implications.

Image, Fantasy, an exhibition at the National Art Museum of China running through Dec 20, shows these vivid paintings. Her works are on display along with ink paintings by her daughter Yang Ying.