Poetic Oil Painting and the Poetry of Oil Painting——The Poetry Pursuit in the Freehand Oil Paintings by Wu Guanzhong
As one of the representative painters of modern Chinese painting in the 20th century,Wu Guanzhong tirelessly explored the different aesthetic concepts of the two artistic languages of Eastern and Western painting in his creative career.His oil paintings have a highly Chinese style of freehand brushwork in form,and a poetic expression and pursuit in meaning.The high unity of form and meaning contains a pursuit of poetic sentiment.How to align Western oil painting with the spirit of traditional Chinese culture & the poetic pursuit in freehand oil painting to achieve the aesthetic value of integrating Chinese traditional literati painting with poetry and painting in an-other form,is not only our continuation and inheritance of the aesthetic core of Chinese traditional painting ideology,but also the free-hand spirit and connotation of Chinese style freehand oil painting,meanwhile,it is also a long-term exploration process.