Wu Zuoren's paintings fully express nature and society, and he believes that only the public can understand the good works. Wu Zuoren has always advocated going to nature to find nature.
When Wu Zuoren was 20 years old, he was appreciated by Xu Beihong, a great educator at the time, and told Wu Zuoren his address, so that he could visit his home at any time. In 1930, with the help of Xu Beihong, Wu Zuoren went to Western Europe to study, and through continuous efforts, he successively entered the École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Belgium.
During this period, Wu Zuoren integrated Western painting techniques with traditional Chinese painting art, and eventually created his own realistic concept of entering the world.
In 1935, Wu Zuoren was asked by Xu Beihong to return to China to teach, and began the creative art road of Wu Zuoren's Chinese painting. In the 1940s, Wu Zuoren went west to sketch, and this sketch was also a turning point in his creative career. When Wu Zuoren traveled west to the Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes, he was deeply impressed by the statues of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and lamented the craftsman spirit of traditional skills. During this period, Wu Zuoren understood the local folk customs of the desert, combined with the painting techniques and concepts of the East and the West, and created a large number of watercolors, sketches, drawings, oil paintings and other works.
Wu Zuoren's lifelong requirement for his own creation was to find inspiration from natural objects. With his concept of traditional Chinese painting, combined with the techniques of Western painting, he opened a new chapter in Chinese oil painting.