Xingming Wu (Peter) has studied and worked for many years in Hangzhou China, currently, as an academic researcher in the contemporary field. He is living and creating his ink and wash works in Australia.
Xingming Wu graduated from the China Academy of Arts in 1997 (the former name was Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts, in Hangzhou, China) and the Fine Art School of Hangzhou Normal University in 2008, respectively, gained a BFS and an MFA. With a visiting scholar from 2013 to 2014, visiting Tasmanian School of Art - sent by China Scholarship Council (SCS). He was awarded his PhD degree at the Tasmanian School of Art in 2018.
He focuses on Asian art in the Chinese landscape painting area and traditional narrative technique, especially for wrinkle methods expanding form, reform possibility and traditional elements reusing or recreating in his contemporary ink and wash works.
Art is art that infuses emotion and resonates with the soul.
Cezanne, the formalism artist representative, developed the art stream form to abstract. Marcel Duchamp, however, created a none-easel art stream through concepts that came from his thoughts, ideological level or philosophy. After them, installation, performance art, video, and sound art appear in the area of art, of various art forms.
Is art the expression of emotions, the interpretation of current social events, or the conveyance of thoughts? Emotions are the intuitive reflections and feedback from within oneself, while thoughts are the accumulation of knowledge, contemplation, and summaries through life experiences. Both languages use images and materials to convey emotions and thoughts, regardless of whether it is in Eastern or Western culture.
