Author: Wu Guoying
When: July 11, 2020
Wu Guoying: Chinese Surrealism
This article is included in the collection of "Wu Guoying - Thinkers Without Domain", Wu Guoying [Global Artist Code 087].
December 29, 2018, Still Life Exploration, from left: Wu Guoying, Zhao Meiyang
Chapter 10: Turbulence
Through the analysis of surrealist art in previous articles, we now try to make a retrospective, combing and summarizing of surrealist paintings:
Surrealist art began in the 1920s, when André Breton published the Manifesto of Surrealist, officially announcing the birth of Surrealist, and held the first surrealist exhibition in Paris in 1925.
Appreciation of Wu Guoying's new heavy color works
In his Manifesto of Surrealism, Breton stated that Surrealism was based on the belief in surreality, which is the hitherto neglected form of association. At the same time, it is also the infinite power of the dream of faith, and the various changes in thought that can not be diverted by interests. It tends to eventually destroy all other spiritual structures and replace them in order to solve the principal problems of life.
Surrealist art flourished in the twenties and forties and shined, producing world-renowned surrealist painting masters such as Kirico, Margolit, Dali, Miró, And Carlo, whose works shocked the soul, strongly infected the thoughts and feelings of the viewer, and had a profound impact and opened a new era of painting.
Zhao Meiyang: Wu Guoying and Chinese Surrealism
Surrealist painting advocates catharsis, focusing on revealing, exposing, showing dreams, subconscious thoughts, and thoughts, showing people, shocking people, and stimulating the senses.
Surrealism advocates the combination of life, death, dreams, reality, past, and future, unifying them, and their artworks present mysterious, terrifying, absurd, and eerie characteristics.
Surrealist art reveals the dreams and subconscious minds that sleep in people's hearts, a direct catharsis under the control of instinct and irrationality, exposing the hidden world deep in the human soul.
Appreciation of Wu Guoying's landscape paintings
Surrealist artists believe that dreams can show the other side of "eternal life", and only by correcting reality and changing reality with dreams can we tear down the wall leading to the "other shore" and reach the mysterious surreal realm.
By the 1960s and 1970s, Surrealism was gradually in decline, and with the departure of some well-known masters, this great art movement finally came to its end, and new, more influential art genres gushed out, replacing the dominance of the Surrealist painting movement.
Admiring the numerous paintings of Surrealism, we also gradually understand what is "absolutely" true, what is goodness, what is beauty, and what is romantic, poetic, and obsessive.
The current situation of research on surrealist art in China is unsatisfactory, with some research papers in academia and some books published, but overall, it stays at a relatively superficial level. Of course, this is related to the current impatience, frivolity, shallowness, lack of depth in academic research, short-sightedness, and short-term behavior in the Chinese academic community.
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At the mass level, there is little content related to exploration and popularization.
Many people are unclear about whether surrealism or hyperrealism (photorealism) or sillyness is confusing.
Looking ahead, the overall trend of China's current artistic development may be a revival of the prosperity of Surrealist painting in China, perhaps the popularity of Chinese-style Surrealist painting, the best period of great development.
China's neo-surrealist art is perhaps the most vital and influential genre that has risen together with abstract art in china today.
This is a positive reverse movement for some painters who only draw photos and are led by photos, learning from the creative concept of surrealist painting, and perhaps a good way to solve the problem of copying photos, painting and competing with photos.
In 2020, the worldwide new crown epidemic is overwhelming, and the worldwide spread is noisy, stirring up a peaceful world, and even some foreign media call it the third world war.
Some politicians in the international community have begun to challenge in an unprecedented manner, curbing China's rise, taking turns to sacrifice trade wars, financial wars, and even grain wars, and even real wars of blood and fire are imminent; India is constantly provoking and constantly engaging in small actions; the Taiwan independence forces have stepped up their overt and covert pace to challenge the bottom line of tolerance of the Chinese nation, and we are facing a severe test.
Strategic management expert Zhao Meiyang to contemporary surreal painter Wu Guoying", "Thinkers Without Domain"
The situation now is very similar to a hundred years ago, but it is more complicated and more devious!
However, the pace of national rejuvenation of our great motherland will not stop, and the wheel of history will surely roll forward.
The great cultural revival of a country necessarily includes the great revival of literature and art, music and painting: this includes:
Create numerous sublime and touching works of art;
There is a team of elite artists with thoughts, feelings, and works;
There is a large number of painting art lovers;
There is a solid, deep, long-sighted collector crowd and soil.
Contemporary surreal painter Wu Guoying to Zhao Meiyang's opening words for "Road Remote Knowledge Horsepower - Opening the Door of Enlightenment"
Everything is ready, only the east wind is owed.
This is a magnificent era, reform and opening up has brought a new atmosphere in all aspects, people's spiritual outlook is also changing, in this era of great changes, artists respond to the times, express life, sing the melody of the times, should create colorful, aesthetic and poetic works of art, worthy of this great era! Worthy of the glory and dream of the mother of the motherland!
This is a great cause worthy of the descendants of Yan Huang!
On June 29, 2014, Wu Guoying was in Tokyo
The main points of Wu Guoying: Chinese Surrealism:
Chapter 1: Turning out to be a reality
Chapter 2: The Stiffness of Desire
Chapter 3: Dream Heaven
Chapter 4: Time and Space
Chapter 5: Metaphorical Symbolism
Chapter Six: Love and Hate
Chapter Seven: I'm Crazy
Chapter 8: Empathy
Chapter Nine: Prajnaparamita
The author is the contemporary surreal painter Wu Guoying [Global Artist Code 087], and Wu Guoying and Chinese Surrealism have a detailed report.
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