Zao Wou-Ki masterpieces

The lyrical painting
a lyrical landscape by Zao Wou-Ki

Art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something - Rainbow Rowell

The lyrical abstraction

One of the best modern painters in the West

Zao Wou-Ki (1920-2013) was a Chinese-French painter and etcher known for his non-representational paintings with a mix of occidental and oriental artistic styles.  In the French magazine "Preuves", he declared Everybody is bound by a tradition; I am bound by two.

He became a French citizen through naturalization and was a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris.  Graduated from the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou, where he studied under Fang Ganmin and Wu Dayu.

He was born in Beijing into a family of intellectuals. Was taught by his grandfather to draw the characters of the Chinese alphabet, essential groundwork for the art of calligraphy. 

He is associated with the École de Paris (School of Paris) in the 50s, then affiliated with Lyrical Abstraction.  Claude Roy, a journalist, said about him:
a great painter whose work continued on from at least 10 major centuries of Chinese art, and who was one of the best modern painters in the West.

Favourite masterpieces

Watercolour, untitled, 1955
Watercolour, untitled, 1991
Watercolour, untitled, 1994
Watercolour, untitled, 2003
Watercolour, untitled, Biarritz, 2005 (rose)
Watercolour, untitled, Biarritz, 2005 (bleu)
Watercolour, untitled, Ibiza, 2005
Watercolour, untitled, Paris, 2006
Watercolour, untitled, Paris, 2007
Watercolour, untitled, Ibiza, 2007
Watercolour, untitled, La Cavalerie, 2008

Paintings
Septembre-octobre 2003, 2003
The wind pushes the sea – Triptych, 2004
Homage to Cezanne, 06.11.2005 – Diptych, 2005
Untitled, 2005
Red Earth – 16.01.2005

Chinese ink
Untitled, 1972
Untitled, 1982
Untitled, 2004
Untitled, 2005
Untitled, 2007

Prints
Untitled, 2000
Lantern, Avril 2007
ton vert
coloré



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