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Artist sees nature in bold new ways
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LU Chuntao says he “found himself” a few years ago and now produces wilder works that are more explosive.
A display of his latest paintings will be held at Hotel Nikko Shanghai.
His subject for this exhibition is the lotus pond.
The artist commonly introduces a single color or big blocks of color across rice paper in each work. He paints vast fields of dark or regular rows of flowers against a dark backdrop, making it seem as though the lotus is from another time or another planet.
“I want to pursue striking visual effects,” Lu says. “It’s easier said than done. But it’s inevitable if we really want to be different from our predecessors.”
Born in 1965 in Chongming, Shanghai, Lu is currently vice principal of the Shanghai Calligraphy and Painting Institute and the executive director at the Shanghai Artist Association.
Lu says he uses “a different eye” to see natural surroundings.
He applies abrupt geometric shapes and big blocks of color to separate a subject from its surroundings — a challenge to the traditional aesthetic taste.
His paintings reflect a sensibility that has opened to a wider natural world, an environment far broader than a limited private space.
“My work is more like a short poem narrating a soliloquy from my heart as if it has discovered a musical rhythm that beats among these still points, lines and planes,” he says.
Retaining the spirit of ink-wash paintings while taking the form farther can be difficult because of the absence of vivid colors, layers and textures in the ancient genre.
“What I paint is not that important. The key is to infuse the flowers and birds with verve and spirit as well as form, sentiment and taste all at the same time,” says the Shanghai native.
Date: January 18, 10am-4pm
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