Most of Feng Zikai's early works were done in monochrome and the subject matter was cartoon drawings. In the late 1930s and 1940s, Feng began to do a lot of landscape paintings in color. The subject matters changes; however, Feng's art works still carry strong lyrical sense and humanitarianism. Unlike the traditional landscape paintings, Feng's paintings communicate the exhilaration of exploration and discovery. Feng's landscape paintings reveal not only that how a modern Chinese landscape painter bridge the gap between tradition and innovation' but also the Sino-Japanese art scene and relationship in 1930s.