oil pigment at that time, there are small cracks on the surface. The proposal for restoration has been stopped by the artist, "Don’t repair it. It doesn’t matter as it does not impact the painting." In the course of taking up and putting down, he got in trance for times without any utterance. Such reminiscence goes across over 30 years, almost 40 years.
allowed to paint on Sunday. On these golden Sundays, Wu Guanzhong without tools for painting bought a makeshift backboard used in countryside. After pasting glue, he began to paint on it. For that period of life, Wu Guanzhong described in his own account, “In the house, there was pigment sometimes, without painting board. There was blackboard on the farmland. It was portable and on it was Chairman Mao's Quotation. I bought a batch of the blackboard. I brushed glue on the board and made oil painting. Without easel, I used pannier. The pannier had very high handle and was used to carry both vegetable and dung. I used it as easel and carried it to the field. For most of the time I was in the wheat
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field and no one saw me.” Tough no one has seen
Gathering of times In 1970's, especially in mid-1970's, a considerable amount of Wu Guanzhong's works have wooden board as the base material for creation. It is not easy for artists at that time even to find a wood block. In 1970, influenced by the Cultural Revolution, Wu Guanzhong, who taught in Central Craft and Fine Art Academy (present Fine Art Academy of Tsinghua University), and all teachers and students were transferred to Licun Village of Shijiazhuang in Hebei Province to labor in the fields. A life with planting paddy, carrying coal, criticizing, struggling, etc. had begun, but no painting anyway. Such time lasted for two years before he was
him, the fame and moral of Mr. Wu has influenced a little soldier who previously supervised over them. That is Wu Guiping mentioned by the collector and reminded Wu Guanzhong of the origins of the painting. Wu Guiping who in charge of supervision was at that time a lad from Tangshan of Hebei Province and he was ignorant about arts. Due to his respect to Mr. Wu, his relationship with Wu is deviated from supervision. He even saves his grain portion for Wu Guanzhong who was unable to realize the basic needs for life. The emotion in time of plight is the most worthy emotion in life. In the four years of countryside life, Wu Guanzhong and Wu Guiping become the sworn friends. Wu Guiping is Wu Guanzhong’s disciple in the field and began the painting class
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