What is the difference between the painting styles of Sanyu, Zao Wou-ki and Wu Guanzhong?

In general, Sanyu pursues spiritual freedom, painting rashly, and unwilling to fall into the world; Zao Wou-ki inclined to the classical style of painting, although most of his paintings are French scenery, but contains a unique oriental flavor, there is a combination of Chinese and French, the collision of different cultures resulting in a special temperament; Wu Guanzhong's paintings use Western abstractionism to show my country's aesthetic characteristics, which embodies the understanding of the western oil paintings by Wu Guanzhong. Western oil painting. The three masters of oil painting, while showing their understanding of the times, also contain the flavor of oriental aesthetics, which is the product of the trend of the times.

I. Painting is the reproduction of ideology.

Sheung Yuk is a painter with personality and ideology, releasing his personality but no one appreciated it, he experienced the ups and downs of his life, and finally died of gas poisoning, this personality also made him a miserable painter. Painting is a display of ideas and concepts, and this is indeed the case with Chang Yu, who did not want to go to art school to study, and always created with his personal ideas, doing as he pleased, and being unique in his artistic endeavors. Therefore, Changyu's paintings are more like a kind of emotional catharsis.

Like Chang Yu, Zao Wou-ki is undoubtedly a painter with a unique personality. In his view, ? The less a painter says, the better? , the concept of good painting must be communicated to the audience through the works. In him, two temperaments can be seen, one is the French classical flavor, and the other is the oriental connotation. Zao Wou-ki's early paintings reflect his struggle and denial to break away from the traditional style of painting, and he believes that? Conformity is not creation.

The later paintings realize this point, with the emptiness between objects and images, similar to the spiritual realm of the unity of heaven and man that the ancient Chinese pursued.

And Wu Guanzhong, as Zao Wou-ki's classmate, both studied under Lin Fengmian, but his painting style is more characterized by Chinese aesthetics. In the era of modernism, Wu Guanzhong was also wrapped up in the trend, but he incorporated the characteristics of Chinese painting into the bright oil colors, a unique style, presenting another spirit of the landscape.