Feng Guodong (born in Hebei, 1948–2005) participated in the fine art training course at the Beijing Working People’s Culture Palace, where he met Wang Luyan and other artists who played an important role in the 85 New Wave Movement. A member of the Beijing Oil Painting Research Association, Feng’s paintings reference the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists; he was in pursuit of individual artistic freedom and social democracy, a form of resistance to the ideology of official art during the Cultural Revolution.