1989年以后，随着前卫绘画的冷却，一批具有坚实学院功底的画家，他们不满新潮美术的隔靴搔痒，把眼光重新投向周边的人和事，在油画的写实性和当代性之间找到了统一，于是成就了20世纪90年代艺术史上的“新生代”。
    王岱山于1999—2007年分别在湖北美术学院油画系和清华大学美术学院绘画系接受了严格的学院专业训练，根基厚实，特别是在研究生阶段，导师给予了他大量的帮助和启发。在此基础上，王岱山慢慢摸索出适合自己的道路和方向，他画的也是他周边的生活和日常现实，可以说承继了一部分新生代的线索，只是少了些新生代的社会虚无感和时代寓意性，更多了些对日常现实个人化的主观表现。
    琐碎的日常生活在新生代以前并不被集中关注，但人类的其它实践活动和日常生活的分离，恰恰是现代社会发展的趋势和标志，新生代的成就就在于他们抓住了现代社会分裂的缝隙，而王岱山再次把个人创作的焦点对准日常现实，意在打破对日常生活机械性的、习惯性的、重复性的麻木和被动适应，以便唤起对现实的异样感，从而在异样化、陌生化和神秘化的艺术氛围中更加敏锐地感受日常生活。

    Ever since the decline of Avant-garde Painting after 1989, a batch of painters, who are highly skilled but dissatisfied with the inefficiency of New Tide Art, have been refocusing on people and things around. They were able to find balance between the realism and modernity of oil painting, and thus became the “New Generation” in art history in the 1990s.
Wang Daishan received rigorous academic training in the Oil Painting Department of Hubei Institute of Fine Arts and the Academy of Arts and Design, Tsinghua University         respectively from 1999 to 2007, which laid a solid foundation for his painting. Thanks to the enormous help and inspiration he received from his supervisor at the graduate level, Wang has gradually developed a style of his own. He paints about life around him and daily reality, so there are some characteristics of the New Generation in his painting, with less sense of social nihility and morals of the time but more individualized subjective expression of daily reality.
Before the New Generation, trivial everyday life was not focused on, but the separation of other practices of human beings from everyday life is precisely the tendency and symbol of the development of modern society. And the achievement of the New Generation lies in their accurate grasp of the division of modern society. With the refocusing on daily reality, Wang intends to break the mechanical, habitual, repetitive numbness and passive adaptation to daily reality, so as to arouse a strange sensation of reality and thus enable the audience to experience life more exquisitely in an unusual, strange and mysterious art atmosphere.