刘小东,1963年生于辽宁省金城,1988年毕业于中央美术学院油画系,而后留校任教至今。多年的美术教育使得刘小东具备了扎实的绘画功底,用写实的笔触来表述自己对现实的反思。刘小东在艺术圈的影响力是无庸置疑的,他的成功很大程度上取决于他对自身艺术信念的坚守。刘小东在创作上始终坚持艺术对于表达社会生活现实的“写实”功 Liu Xiaodong, born in Jincheng, Liaoning Province in 1963, graduated from the Oil Painting Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1988 and has been teaching in the school since then. Years of art education makes Liu Xiaodong have a solid foundation of painting, with realistic brushstrokes to express their own reflection on the reality. Liu Xiaodong in the art circle’s influence is beyond doubt, his success depends largely on his adherence to his own artistic beliefs. Liu Xiaodong always sticks to the “realistic” power of art in expressing the reality of social life