刘晨阳的肖像画及自画像是非常有力道的。她可以非常大胆地在画布上自如地运用色彩。画面上厚厚的颜料有一种丰富的乳脂般的感觉，同时与画中勾勒出的线条碰撞，产生一种水墨画般的流畅感。刘晨阳对于不同颜色的运用非常有创新，并且善于抓住人物的面部表情，性格甚至心情。她的画作能明显感到有首西方现代艺术的影响。她画作的平面型及明亮的颜色让人想起了保罗高更，她大胆地描绘轮廓的方式又似爱德华蒙克或埃贡席勒，同时又具有中国传统水墨画的特点。

Michael Manzardo

Liu Chenyang's portraits and self-portraits are particularly effective.She can be quite bold in these works in her handing of paint without the need for too much consideration for complex composition,The rich creaminess of her impasto is often contrasted with elegant and fluid linear elements that are quite calligraphic in manner,Liu Chenyang can also employ some rather audacious and surprising color combinations.The artist is equally adept at capturing a definite facial expression... Personality...and mood with limited or simplified means.Liu Chenyang’s work is clearly rooted in Western Modernism.Her employment of flat areas of bright color recalls Gauguin,while her bold gestural outlines suggest Edvard Munch,Egon Shiele...as wll as the Chinese tradition of calligraphy.

Michael Manzardo