"Where Art Is the Picture: Gao Xuming's Paintings and Writings"

Author: Gao Xuqi
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Publish Date: 2004-03-01
Features: This is a book where even the self-portraits and cover layout were designed by the author himself. It is a book that reveals the author's soul and pursues spiritual freedom. Seeking art and life, solitude and joy, indifference and transcendence from the format of ancient books, the author speaks to himself, mocking others and himself. The independent and unconventional behavior of a painter, the barefaced vulgarity of an illiterate rogue. I often think that it is difficult to be a pure scholar and a pure rogue in China. A pure scholar and a pure rogue require the courage to tear their souls apart. And have we truly achieved purity in seeking art and life within traditional culture? The book presented to the readers, "Only Art Is the Picture," is the author's daily reflections from the past few years. Crystallized philosophical thoughts, artistic insights, reflections on the world—its purpose is to think freely, paint freely, and live freely, even if it means being whipped by art.