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A "Riverside Landscape" created in the 1950s participated in two major exhibitions. The frame and palette are highly localized. Elements such as sandy beaches, water bodies, islands, and sailboats are arranged in a well-proportioned manner, employing the classic three-part composition, embodying the quintessential Guan Liang style with extraordinary skill fully revealed through subtle and meticulous coloration and brushwork.
Guan Liang created a series of watercolor works on Emei Mountain, using Western artistic concepts and media to depict the charm of ink-wash landscapes. The exact time of its creation remains uncertain. The painting below, "Emei Mountain Heilongze," is a representative work of Guan Liang's early realistic oil paintings and can serve as a reference and comparison for his artistic characteristics across different periods.
Masters such as Guan Liang, Lin Fengmian, and Wu Dayu were particularly fond of creating "bottle flower" works during certain periods, as these vivid colors enlivened mundane life and symbolized their yearning for a free existence. Thus, the flowers and vases in their works are full of vitality, elegant and captivating, radiating flashes of philosophical insight into life.
Guan Liang's bottle flower paintings entirely adopt the compositional principles of Western still life, yet employ Chinese ink brush techniques to outline the forms. The flowers, branches, and leaves are rendered primarily through traditional ink-and-brush methods, while single-line flat painting appears full and substantial. There is a stronger tendency toward flattening and decoration; the colors are bright and refined, with a superior use of primary color combinations and clean backgrounds. The vase is painted in royal blue, leaving one-third of its surface as highlight to create a sense of three-dimensionality and realism.
Guan Liang had a long-standing connection with opera. When he was a child, his family moved to Nanjing and lived in the eastern wing of the "Liangguang Huiguan." "A small stage on the western side of this guildhall became my home." From childhood, Guan Liang was deeply enamored with opera, destined throughout his life to watch, perform, and paint Peking Opera. In the 1920s and 1930s, after teaching at the Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts, he frequently attended Peking Opera performances and developed a preference for painting theatrical figures, studying opera from masters to enrich his life experiences and artistic accumulation in depicting dramatic characters.