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Apart from being exhibited in the British Museum (a rare tribute to living Asian artists), Metropolitan Museum, China National Art Museum and other major galleries, Wu also was made Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture in 1991 and became the first Chinese artist to be awarded the Médaille des Arts et Lettres by the Académie des Beaux-Arts de l’Institut de France in 2002.       Unimpressed by the global trend of commercialization in arts, Wu donated most of his works to Singapore Art Museum and Hong Kong Art Museum.Wu is also famous for his outspoken criticism of the contemporary artistic scene of China, with such quotes as: “100 Qi Baishi the painter cannot substitute for one Lu Xun the critic”, “exploring one’s own feeling is like getting pregnant, one has to run about to get it”,  ”the whole society is becoming shallow and crass, publications, galleries, exhibitions, you’d better call it rice-bowl scramble”.

Wu Guanzhong (1919-2010)

Pinus Taiwanensis

Da Zhu River, Sichuan

“Abstract beauty is the heart of the beauty of figurative art. It is a natural thing to which we all respond. As a child loves to play with a kaleidoscope, so everyone likes pure form and color.”

Wu Guanzhong

Rural houses of Guilin

Montmartre

A family by the gorge

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During the Cultural Revolution in the mid-1960s Wu was banned by the government from painting and writing about art for seven years; many of his early works were destroyed. His family said he was forced to read the works of Chairman Mao to "correct his ideology".

Old Chongqing, 1997

In 1970, Wu and his wife were sent to separate areas of the countryside to do manual labour. These were years of famine and social and political chaos in China, but despite the privations Wu managed to sketch or paint expressive landscapes – including pictures of chrysanthemums, sparrows and mountains, lakes, mulberry trees and fishing boats.

Pavilion beside the lotus pond

Reeds by the Li River

Water fall

Waterfall

“There is no boundary in

terms of art; art belongs to the world, not to a

certain nation or country.”

Wu Guanzhong

Lion Grove Garden, 1990

Lion Woods, 1983

Dress Up

Mountain Bamboo, 1975

The Li River, 1976 (Detail)

The Li River, 1976

The Charm of Lotus Pond, 2002Lotus under the sun, 2001

A banana graden of Xishuangbanna 1978 Love in Fangzhuang 2002

New City, 1996

Painting Jiangnan5

Pines, 1995

Reflections, 1990

The Ruins of Gaochang II, 1987

(His painting “the ruins of Gaochang” was sold on 1.87 million Hong Kong dollars, which sets the record to the international price of Chinese Painting from the living artists)

Chinese courtyard

Wall, 1993

White Poplar Woods

Lofty mountains and pine

Fishing boats

Fishes in the Suzhou garden

A mountain village of Xibaipo

1989 1994

The opening ceremony of

Wu Guanzhong Museum of Art in

Yixing

A statue of Wu Guangzhong stands in front of the museum

Leaving Youth Behind, 2009

Hong Kong Museum of Art

Sound: Vanessa Mae - I Will Always Love You

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