几年前，海粟老人在北京饶有兴味地看完得意弟子汪易扬的一组人物画，对笔者说：“书画分家已久，今人搞返祖实验实有必要。然若重形轻意，必然难入高境。易扬走其反道，引书法线之表现力入画，篆情隶味草法蕴藉，并已有自己面目，十分可贵。”
青灯偏爱苦耕人。泳过茫茫墨海，化繁为简，在自我否定中筛选，积累渐变，追寻天籁，易扬是一番求索一番新。
遥远的梦温馨。易扬生于厦门鼓浪屿。那是音乐家的摇篮。天风、海涛、素月、繁花，诗之岛的灵乳，同样也滋养着画家的赤子之心和他那渐入妙境的笔。他从小便喜爱涂抹，进入上海美专之后，好似一条小鱼游进艺河。建国之初，正当他的创作走上新台阶的时候，遇到了那场“运动”，踏上了人生的坎坷之路。他在挥汗如雨的劳动中重新认识世界，也更加贴近了普通劳动者。他作曲、编舞、写剧，保持乐观本色。春回大地之后，他重操书画，而当年抚慰过他心灵的歌舞、戏曲却又给他的书画添了养分，转化为墨弦的节奏韵律，弹之有声，掬之有情。海粟大师曾为他著诗赞道：“万转墨弦着意求，前人肩上上层楼，灵襟书卷山川出，废画三千得自由。”
易扬爱刚正不阿的历史人物，喜欢民间文学中那些神仙、侠士、巧匠以至钟馗的形象。理想之光增加了这些人物形象的高度，他作丈二巨人为八仙，或雄健，或飘逸，或狂放，或冷峻。男子高得扎实而气宇非凡，女子高得灵动而窈窕俊秀，各有寄托，反映了艺术家在追求美的过程中闪现的人性光芒。他作画要有较长的腹稿时间，在心中酝酿这些巨灵们的千姿百态。他善取要领，洗去冗笔，乘兴一挥，顷刻成画。在一线之中构成人物形体、结构、动态、性格以至完成浓、淡、干、焦、湿的笔墨韵致。他很向往苏东坡“当其落笔风雨快，笔所未到气已吞”的境界。他的人物画一旦被放在争奇斗艳的百家画中，总能以其超凡的独具风韵而分外惹眼。
他也作数日方可结笔的现代风景画，也写客体世界给他的感受。但他不是只摹形再现对象，而是通过光的狂舞，线与彩的跌宕交融，把山山水水人情化，诗意化一一尽力表现为和我们对话的朋友。热得深沉，笑得活脱，是易扬，又是大自然的本色。 
BY MEANS OF CURSIVE HAND TO
STRIVE FOR WONDER AND IMPOSING
——See Yiyang's Raging Grass and Figure Paintings
Several years ago,in Beijing,after going over a set of figure paintings by his favourite pupil Wang Yiyang,the great aged master Hai Su had with great interest told the auther: "Calligraphy and painting have long sinee been Separated,it is quite necessary for people of our era to engage themselves in ataristic experiments.But if one puts stress on form and belittles conception,Sure he can not scale the heights.Yiyang follows the opposite direction,he introduces the force of expression of calligraphic lines into the painting the temperament of the seal and the taste of the script,the cursive hand temperate and refined,which already has its own true colours.a feat indeed highly commendable."
The green lantern has partiality for those who work hard.After swimming through the vast sea of ink,simplifying by weeding out Superfluities,Yiyang screened himself during self—negation,he accumalated,bringing forth gradual changes in pursuit of the sounds of nature,and conceived new ideas each time he obtained what he sought after.Lately,he brought several recent works with him for another exhibition in the city of the Rams for an exchange with southern scholars.I partook with all others the unquenchable joy of viewing the paintings.
Remote dreams are the fondest.Yiyang was born in Gulangyu , an island beyond Xiamen,Fujian province.That is the cradle of the musicians .The heavenly wind , the blue waves.the quiet moon and the luxurious flowers made the miraculous milk of the poetic island as well as nourished the ch1dish heart of the painter with his brush became more and more delightful.He loves painting Long from his childhood.After,entering the Shanghai Institute of Fine Arts.Like a small fish he swam into the river of arts.when his artistic creation had just stepped onto a new stage,there accured the terrible movement,He was persecuted as a Rightist and sent to the countryside.He soon walked on a rough way of life.He had to understand the world again in the labour that driped with sweat.and he was nearer to the ordinary labourer He wrote music,compiled dances,wrote drama for keeping up the colour of an optimist.When spring returned,after the Cultural Revolution was over,he picked up calligraphy and painting again,and the song the dance and the opera which had consoled his heart in those trouble years provided nutrient to his calligraphy and painting ultimately it transformed into the rhythm and rules of the ink—strings.It sounded when placking;became sentimental when scooping.The great Master Hai Su had written a poem praising him：Pluck the momentum through.Thousands Turnings of ink—trace.Ascend a higher stairs up from.The shouders of predecessors; Read books a great lot,And be inspired by poets old and new;Being Your own master that had Thousand of paintings ever been annuled.
Yiyang admires upright historical personages and is fond of those celestials chivalrous knights and skilful craftsmen in the folk literature,down to the image of Zhong Kui.The light of ideal has increased the heights of these figures.He painted them to giant.Some robust,some elegant,some unruly and some icy.The males are steadily tall and their temperament are uncommon：the females are nimble and agile.Each of them has their different spiritual sustenance which reflects the radiance of humanity what the artist in his course of beauty seeking.He always had a rather long period for the mental notes in order to play the delineation in his mind which with various manners.He is well to grasp the essentials,washing off the unnecessary strokes and wielding his brush while in a joyful mood and finishes the painting in almost a twinkling.He has been able in a single line to constitute the form of a figure;structure.developments and disposition down to the accomplishment of the thick the pale.the dry or the wet of the brush's lasting appeal once his figure painting displayed among the paintings scrambling for a riot of colour and combating for the oddity from hundred painting scholars,his work would be loudly conspicuous with its style over the others.
The painter also work on modern landscape painting which would take him several days to finish.He also writes about the feelings developed in him by the objective world.Note only does he make the simalations to reproduce the object but through the crazy dances of the light,the boldness and blend of the lines and colours to humanize poetize the mountains and rivers.as fully as possible to make our dialogue friends deeply warmed and laughed contentedly.This should be the natural colour as well as the Yiyang's.