Color grass
Wu Dayu. Oil on canvas, 53, 38cm, 1984.
Text|Wang Linyan.
"Color Grass" is a work created by Mr. Wu Dayu in his later years, which won the Honor Award of the 6th National Art Exhibition in 1984. Born in 1903 in Yixing, Jiangsu, Mr. Wu Dayu is the pioneer and founder of modern abstract painting in China. He studied in France in 1922, and his painting style is a testament to his deep influence on Western modern painting at that time. After returning to China, he taught at Hangzhou Art College (now China Academy of Art), during which he cultivated a number of outstanding oil painting talents, including Wu Guanzhong, Zao Wou-ki, and ** Qun, three world-renowned oil painters. The work composes a light and color movement with the beauty of rhythm with light and agile brushstrokes. The heaviest blue is used to represent the vase body, while the neck of the bottle is only outlined with a simple brush, which has the formal characteristics of deconstruction and reconstruction. The whole picture expresses the author's cheerful and full emotions with smooth brushwork and bright pure colors, and the scattered and figurative yellow flowers jump in the middle, flashing with lively and agile brilliance, overflowing with romantic and warm feelings, so that the viewer can feel the wonderful experience of "plausible and non-existent", "looming" and "virtual and real" in the concrete and abstract visual space. In the work, it can be seen that the color of the author's pen changes from dark to light, from wet to dry, and the technique is skillful and done in one go, which reflects the author's capture of intuitive feelings in an instant, and maintains the vividness and freshness of the temperament of the work. This work also expresses the exploration of Western modern painting by an Oriental man with his highly expressive brushwork, and Mr. Wu Dayu's pursuit of a natural beauty of oriental imagery. He has the following interpretation of his paintings: "The basis of my painting is the combination of potential, light and color, and rhyme. The concept of "potential" reflects the intrinsic quality of his oriental traditional aesthetics. "Potential" is the sinister beauty of "Tranquility and Wonder" related to "Placing Chen Bu Potential", and "Image" is the product of the subject's mutual observation of "mind" and "matter" with the object in aesthetic practice—the "image" of "image". Wu Dayu's experience and understanding of Chinese calligraphy has made him pursue the expression in painting, the charm and vitality, the brushwork is lively and natural, and the Western modern abstract painting form and technique are integrated into the oriental aesthetic connotation, in the movement and stillness, between the concrete and the abstract, rippling a beautiful and ethereal rhyme.
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