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Wu's style, (or rather styles), is unmistakable. His landscapes in oils are marked by a delicacy of touch and colour, a purity and fluidity of line, which are very seductive. He also liked to work in the traditional Chinese medium of ink on paper, and his studies of trees and plants have a vitality and freedom that sometimes verges on abstract expressionism, although Wu always denied that abstraction was an issue.Wu was a remarkable man, not only for his prodigious talent, but for the courage with which he stood up to the Maoist ideologues – unlike his teacher Lin, who was crushed by them – for the lucidity of his writings about art, and for the demands he made upon himself. He was a prolific painter, perhaps excessively so, and not all his work, in particular in the too-fluid Chinese medium of brush and ink, is up to his best standard. Realizing this, in 1991 he destroyed several hundred of his paintings. He died a much-admired "old master"
2008
Wu Guanzhong (1919-2010)
Big Manor, 2001
“In searching for all the marvelous peaks to make sketches, for thirty years during winter, summer, spring, and autumn, I carried on my back the heavy painting equipment and set foot in the river towns, mountain villages, thick forests, and snowy peaks – from the farthest corner of the Eastern Sea to the border towns of Tibet, from the ruins of ancient Greek Gaochang (in Xinjiang) to the isles of seagulls, I stayed in truck stops, courtyards of fishermen’s homes, factory buildings, and broken temples....In all of these I trained myself to develop endurance.”
Wu Guanzhong
Life, 2001
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A Small Market in Indonesia, 1994
Boats in Indonesia, 1994
Hainan Island Scene (1993)
The streets of Lhasa, 1961
Camels in the Desert, 1981
Lhasa, 1961
Göteborg
Big Mansion
Amusement of fish
A village in England, 1992
China birds nest
Beijing Department Store, 1958
The Ancient City Of Jiaohe, 1981Sold to a Singaporean Chinese for a record ¥37 million or $4.9 million at Poly
One of the world's architectural wonders hides in Yarnaz Valley, Like a willow leaf, the ancient city of Jiaohe (Yarkhoto) with a history of 2300 years lies between two rivers on a loess plateau atop a cliff of over 30 meters, the largest, oldest and best-preserved earthen city in the world. An Indian proverb says, 'Intelligence is bound to exist where two rivers meet'. Jiaohe, meaning in Chinese where two rivers meet, is such a place.
A Fishing Harbour (III)
Wu village
An unbroken line
Sound: Snow Geese at Play on the Water - Louis Chen & Wu Ronghua
Text and pictures: Internet
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Presentation: Sanda Foişoreanu
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