Progress and Advancement

This pairing of abstraction and realism in this work is remarkable...and according to T.K. Sabapathy a direct response to the demands of the patron, who unusually received higher billing in the label on this work than the artist himself.

Yu Yu Yang (aka Yang Ying Feng) produced many realistic sculptures in the 1940s and 50s, but the realistic figures and reliefs at the bottom of this work look like his first return to such realism in many years.