The paintings of Cen Long suggest a mythological narration about a lost modern man in search of the way to his home, and also a psychological record of the process of searching. These memories contain merciful stories about human conditions, and fluid narratives about the human, the animals and the nature, and make one sigh at the absence of time. The backgrounds of his works are mostly the mountains and the farmers' villages. The reason why he chose the theme is unlike that of early realism, which has the motif of "returning to the nature", and not that of impressionism or post-impressionism either, that their goal is to experiment. The reason that urges him to choose this motif comes more likely from the psychological aspect. It is not only an intuitive counter-action to the urban civilization, but  also an imagined utopian space constructed in his own mind.

He used to express the lonesome self in the modern world in a style influenced by Egon Schiele, whereas in the narrative legacy of the Netherlandish Genre Paintings of Pieter Bruegel the Elder from the 16th century, he found his spiritual sustenance. In his series of work－"the Purgatory" and "the Bard", he merges the subjective imagination and the objective illustration of the nature and depicts a self-sufficient ideal world full of symbolism through depicting the working laborers and the nomads in the north. His efforts of illustrating and constructing an utopian world reaches a level almost as high as the religion.

Cen Long’s recent works, the series of “the Purgatory” and “the Bard”, both will be exhibited this time.