Wu Guanzhong

Art Types involved-in: Oil Painting, Chinese Painting

Wu Guanzhong Biography:

Wu Guanzhong (1919.8.29-2010.6.25, Chinese name 吴冠中), born in the city of Yixing, Jiangsu Province, China, was a contemporary Chinese painter, and an educator of modern painting. He taught at China Central Academy of Fine Arts, and won many honors at home and abroad, for example, Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, corresponding academician of Académie des Beaux-Arts. 

The artist was famous for both his artistic achievements and his moral character. He had published more than 40 albums of paintings and dozens of literature anthologies. He held many exhibitions at home and abroad and his works are collected by museums in many countries. The British Museum held an exhibition for him, breaking their own unwritten convention of exhibiting merely ancient cultural relics. The painter held the idea of “Sinicizing oil painting” and “modernizing Chinese painting” in art creation, which made the distinct characteristic of his artworks. 

At the Poly Spring Auctions in Hong Kong, his 1997 oil painting “The Zhou Village” made a new record in the auctions of Chinese oil painting with 236 million Hong Kong dollars (about 30 million US dollars).

Wu Guanzhong's Representative Works Exhibitions:
In 1943, Wu Guanzhong held his first solo exhibition of paintings in Chongqing.
In 1987, Hong Kong Arts Center hosted an exhibition entitled “Wu Guanzhong: A Retrospective”.
In 1992, the British Museum broke with its convention for the first time and held a solo exhibition for the living Chinese artist entitled “Wu Guanzhong: A Twentieth-Century Chinese Painter”. 
In 1993, Musée Cernuschi held an exhibition entitled “Walking into the World—Wu Guanzhong’s Ink Paintings and Sketches” in Paris, France, and awarded him the “Gold Medal of Paris”.
In 1999, Ministry of Culture of the People’s Republic of China hosted “An Exhibition of Wu Guanzhong’s Paintings”.

Graduation School: Hangzhou Vocational School for Arts, école nationale supérieure des Beaux-arts de Paris

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