Intangible But Sensible

Wu Dayu is one of the most outstanding modern oil painters,arteducators and Chinese modern painting founders.The world-renownedpainters such as Wu Guanzhong, Zhu Dequn and Zao Wou-Ki are all hisdisciples, whose artistic concepts and humanistic ideals are deeplyinfluenced by him. Wu Dayu’s work contains both the connotation oforiental culture and the abstract beauty of Western culture.He combinessome ideas and techniques of early modernist with Chinese traditional art,to create a unique, personalized and modern oil paintings art. Wu Dayuknows well about Chinese traditional philosophy, poetry. He is alsofamilar with the Chinese and Western culture. His characters makes hispainting inclined to environmental imagery in the form of the language.Imagery is one of the important concepts of Chinese ancient arttheory and aesthetics. Artistic painting imagery is borrowed from theessence of traditional Chinese literati painting freehand.It is written withimpressions and feelings to replace facing objective objects, and paymuch attention on expressing their own emotions. Wu Dayu oil paintingexplaines the spirit of Chinese traditional culture by Exotic Art style,while combining the modern artistic forms such as expressionism andabstract, he creates the Chinese painting imagery with oriental style.This thesis explores Wu Dayu’s oil paintings from the imageperspective, respects for their specific manifestations and aesthetic features.On the basis of brief discussing some issues,such as the basicconcepts and definitions of imagery, the aesthetic value of imagery, thispaper clarifies the development context of Wu Dayu painting imageryMacroscopically, and summarizes Wu Dayu manifestations paintingimagery from the color, texture, strokes, and other aspects of painting.Moreover,it is highly summarized on Wu Dayu painting imageryaesthetic value and reality.Wu Dayu, as a pioneer of Chinese modern artexploration,whose art always embodies the image of the rhyme of China.