“追光——阿斯蓬”系列将阿斯蓬壮丽的光影与社会主义现实主义传统的太阳升起的图像比喻联结在一起，颜磊从统治了中国和前苏联近六十年的宣传画风格中发展出了自己的一套波普版本。社会主义现实主义宣扬典型性、理想化、党派忠诚和无产主义；颜磊则代表着艺术、世俗、个人和流行文化。
Sparkling-Aspen marries the gloriousness of Aspen light with the traditional rising sun imagery associated with Socialist Realism. Yan Lei evolves his own Pop version of a propaganda-infused style of painting found in China and the former Soviet Union, where it was the officially approved art for nearly sixty years. Socialist Realism promoted the typical, idealized, partisan, and proletarian. Yan Lei presents the artistic, mundane, personal, and pop cultural.
