Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: The prevalent interpretations regarding the creative transformations of the artistic heritage of an outstanding 20 th -century Chinese artist, Wu Guanzhong, often focus on external political, ideological, and everyday factors.The article aims to investigate the internal motivations behind his artistic development.It is grounded in Wu Guanzhong's ethical framework, as he adopted the character 荼 (tu, meaning «bitter») as his pen name, thereby associating his principles with those of the Chinese writer, translator, and patriot, Lu Xun, as well as his «brother», Russian proletarian writer Maxim Gorky.The aesthetic and theoretical contemplation of Wu Guanzhong's ethical framework was encapsulated in his theory of abstraction, described as «unbroken kite string», which posits a novel understanding of «beauty» as the outcome of abstracting artistic form from the objects of the external world, reflecting the artist's unique emotional response to a reality beyond themself.
Language: English
Topic: Art, Politics, and Modernism
Subfield: Visual Arts and Performing Arts
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W7117363780