Asia Society Museum's new exhibition, Revolutionary Ink: The Paintings of Wu Guanzhong, which opens tonight in New York City, marks the first posthumous retrospective in the United States of the ...

NEW YORK — “A snake swallowing an elephant” is how the Chinese artist Wu Guanzhong described himself. The snake was the Chinese artist in him, and the elephant was Western art. The stylistic fusion ...

Wu Guanzhong (1919–2010) stands as one of the most important artists of 20th-century China. He was highly prolific both in oil and ink painting and is well known for his eloquent writings on art and ...

The world of art created by Wu Guanzhong (1919?2010), a master of modern Chinese art, was largely composed of black, white, and gray. His work is divided into gray and white, with the Cultural ...

The opening ceremony of an exhibition celebrating the 100th birthday of artist Wu Guanzhong is held in Wu's hometown of Yixing in eastern Jiangsu province on Sept 21. [Photo/IC] An exhibition ...

"The Infinite Aestheticism: An Exhibition of Wu Guanzhong's Life of Art" -- the largest ever exhibition of the 83-year-old artist's work -- is currently on display at the Hong Kong Museum of Art ...

BEIJING - Wu Guanzhong, the master of Chinese painting, died at 11:57 p.m. Friday in Beijing Hospital at the age of 91. Wu, born in 1919, was a native of Yixing, Jiangsu Province, east China. In 1947, ...

SINGAPORE (Reuters Life!) - Wu Guanzhong never accepted the Cultural Revolution's practical approach to art and how it had to be for the masses. Now, in his 90th year, the Chinese contemporary art ...

His pictures, mainly landscapes, blend Western oil painting techniques with traditional Chinese brush strokes and touches of calligraphy. Wu's work commanded spectacular prices, and this summer his ...

It’s the dream of every amateur art collector. Not fully aware of what they owned, a London couple invited an appraiser to their home for a routine evaluation of their collection. That’s when the ...

In China, Wu Guanzhong’s work is “regarded as something of a national treasure,” said Rachel Wolff in The Wall Street Journal. The Paris-trained artist, who died at the age of 90 in 2010, had a ...