Wu Guanzhong: A collection of 52 works (HD)

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Wu Guanzhong: A collection of 52 works (HD)

Description: "Wu Guanzhong (Chinese, 1919–2010) was one of the most renowned Chinese artists of the 20th century, and is widely considered to be the founder of modern Chinese painting. Born in Yixing in the Jiangsu Province, in 1935, he entered the Zhejiang Industrial School, where he studied engineering. In 1936, he transferred to the National Arts Academy of Hangzhou, studying both Chinese and Western painting under Pan Tianshou and Lin Fengmian.

In 1947, Wu received a scholarship and traveled to Paris to study at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts. During this time, he was greatly inspired by the works of European artists such as Maurice Utrillo, Georges Braque, Henri Matisse, Paul Gauguin, Paul Cézanne, Pablo Picasso, and, in particular, Vincent van Gogh.

Between 1950 and 1953, Wu taught at the Central Academy of Fine Art in Beijing, where he introduced Western art practices to his students. Facing strong resistance from members of the academy, who were proponents of the Social Realist style, Wu transferred, first to Tsinghua University and later to the Beijing Fine Arts Normal College. He also traveled around the country, and created a number of landscape paintings.

At the start of the Cultural Revolution in 1966, he was banned from painting, writing, and teaching, and, in 1970, was sent to Hebei Province for hard labor. In 1973, Wu and other artists were sent back to Beijing to paint murals for restaurants and hotels. His style gradually evolved over the 1970s, during which time he began using watercolors in the traditional Chinese style. He then concentrated on the human form, and applied the techniques he used in these works to his landscape paintings, experimenting with ink and oil on paper.

After the Cultural Revolution, Wu was able to successfully bridge the gap between Western and Eastern art, returning to the stylistic formalism for which he had initially become known. At the beginning of the 1980s, Wu painted The Great Wall for Beijing’s Xiangshan Hotel, which exemplified the shift in style, from representation to semi-abstraction.

Over the course of his career, he held solo exhibitions in major art galleries and museums around the world, including mainland China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo, Taipei, South Korea, England, and the United States. In 1992, his paintings were exhibited at the British Museum, marking the first show for a living Chinese artist at the institution.

Wu passed away in Beijing at the age of 90."

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