Wu Ming Zhong was born in Hebei province China in 1963. In most of his paintings he uses a monochrome palette with reds as the defining accents. He is the Associate Professor & Director of the Oil Painting Research Office for the College of Fine Arts at Capital Normal University. He was a visiting scholar at Liebin Academy of Fine Arts in Russia & Buffalo State College in the USA.
HAIKU Art Review: Wu Ming Zhong
Fragile heart of glass
In a cold monochrome world
Life painted in blood
"My work isn’t like the work of Edward Munch – paintings shot through with obvious expressions of pain. My paintings, rather, are easy on the eye & serve to dissipate the pain."
"Looking back, I can see that my works were born from a sense of sorrow. The glassy, transparent human figures I was painting were born out of heartache, a mental suffering caused by my experience with the frailty of human relations."
"Since I feel empty, I need energy – I need the energy of Nature. Listening to pines & communing with stones means that I am listening & taking to heart the lessons that nature has to offer."
"In 2010, illness posed a serious threat to my life, & so it was that I experienced an awareness of my mortality firsthand. Due to the treatments I was receiving, sometimes I just wouldn’t have any get-up-&-go. Sometimes I felt like I was on the brink & all I could do was just lie in bed. It was then that I felt the fragility of life & its utter emptiness."
