Wu Guanzhong's Paintings Of His Charming Hometowm

Yixing is a famous city in China because of its beautiful scenery,picturesque mountains and rivers,where is also the hometown of Mr.Wu Guanzhong.These southern city scenery and characters were not only referred in Mr.Wu's writings,but also drawn by him.He created lot of paintings about this city.He had been back to his draw paintings for several times.Many classic paintings full of local flavor were pinned the deep affection of his hometown.This paper focuses on these paintings full of hometown charm and analyzes its creative process,reason,style,classic schema,deep meaning and other aspects.This paper interprets the unique features of Mr.Wu's hometown and its profound enlightenment for contemporary art practice comprehensively and systematically.According to the creative process,in general,the painting period about his hometown can be divided into four stages,including the 1960 s,1980s,1990 s and 2000 s.A great deal of sketches,watercolors,ink paintings and oil paintings reflect his creative style's continuous evolution,which is the important symbol of his high artistic level.Considering the creating reasons of his work,we can realize the formation of these paintings reflect the influence of various factors and multiple levels,which is from Mr.Wu's affection to his hometown,inspiration of Lu Xun's literature.Lu Xun's homesickness and salvation movement by literature promoted him to paint "Shuishangrenjia","The spring of Taihu"," The spring's sign of Yixing" and other series of paintings.Mr.Wu absorbed experience from his teachers,Lin Fengmian,Pan Tianshou,Wu Dayu,Souverbie and other masters,such as Shi Tao,Van Gogh,Cezanne.Combining with his own reality,Mr.Wu created a new style which combined the style of Chinese and Western.Originating from the inheritance and development of "respect",he paid attention to his own feelings and made his choice,so that he can express his feelings of humanity and personality by any forms,such as the ink painting and oil painting.By interpreting of the painting style,we can find the constitution by dot,line and frame,expression by watercolor,sketch,color ink,oil painting,combining by silver gray,white,black,brilliant,which is a prominent feature about his works of hometown.These features conveyed his exploring spirit of advancing with the times,using informal methods and innovative ideas.Wu Guanzhong's works about hometown contain not only rich nostalgia,but also novel "tone" and wonderful "rhythm".Because of the expression of deep connotation,the work can impress the audience,and give inspiration to them.Based on the combination of illustrations and words,complement argument and argument,this paper chooses a unique perspective,emphasizes the characteristics of Wu Guanzhong's Art,which focus on finding nature,society and the beauty of life in his sketch,inheriting the tradition style of East and West,daring to innovation,keeping on carving and commitment to create paintings with the characteristics of the times.The spirit of art and its Enlightenment to contemporary practice conveyed by Wu Guanzhong's works about hometown,is worth to consider and research seriously.And for our researchers,we have to absorb his indispensable energy to create more and better works.