Wu Changshuo (Volume 1 and Volume 2)

Author: Zidu
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Publish Date: 2004-09-01
Features: Learning from nature, grasping the essence of artistic expression, vibrant artistic spirit, showcasing brushwork on paper, exploring the profound and subtle, measuring the hidden, harmonizing the four seasons, achieving the same effect as the six classics, imagining a single stroke as lasting for a thousand years, capturing countless changes in a single glance, half a plot of Chinese jujube and Chinese daylily as a refreshing offering, and a wall filled with landscapes as a journey of leisure. Through the ages, one can contemplate the artwork and find inspiration for lofty ideals. It avoids the shallowness of freshness and does not fall into the of gaudy colors. With bold and decisive strokes, he uses bold red and green to achieve complex color variations that ancient masters never attained. He can be considered a master of color in freehand flower painting. – Pan Tianshou on Wu Jingshuo’s paintings
Mr. Changshuo excels in both calligraphy and painting, and is particularly adept at incorporating calligraphic techniques into painting. Although his works may appear rough and disheveled, they possess the profound and mellow charm of stone and metal, with the power to withstand great weight. Scholars who fail to grasp his essence and only seek to imitate his bold and haphazard use of pink and green, painting wildly without understanding the fundamentals, are missing the mark by a thousand miles. – Yu Jianhua on Wu Changshuo