On the Concept of Creation in Wu Guanzhong's Landscape Painting

Oil painting and traditional Chinese landscape painting are two different painting styles.They are based on completely different culture backgrounds.There are also differences in aesthetic orientation.In the composition of oil painting scenery,Wu guan-zhong took not only the excellence in western paint-color and the western modern notion,but also the spirit of Chinese landscape.He mixes the advantages of both Chinese and western into a body perfectly.In the renovationto paint in Wu-style,he combines the two organically the creation ofsubstituting stealthily,removing mountains and fill seas.Wu brings the spirits of Chinese landscape into the creation of the oil painting scenery,which includes the method of observation and the view of creation—observing and travelling extensively,ways of building space by virtual and actual such as extending and closing,as well as the personification of the landscape etc.,and combines it with the very essence of the western paints—color and modern concepts to form his unique art vocabulary.Mr.Wu is neither constrained by master-apprentice nor surrenders in fashion,he pursues the expression of emotion by choosing all means.All of these demonstrate his unique artistic style,express his penetrating to the traditional and the modern,the oriental and western and also accomplishes oil painting in Wu-style which is different from the other artistic schools.