武艺

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**Representative works**

Wu Yi's practice spans ink painting, oil painting, watercolor, pencil drawing, woodblock printing, and sculpture. Among the works and series highlighted in the exhibition materials are:

- *Xiuzhen Tu* (修真图 / "Cultivating Truth"), ink on paper, 2018

- *Dunhuang* series, including oil and watercolor works inspired by cave murals and Buddhist subjects

- *Figures of West Lake* (西湖人物志), woodblock prints, 2015

- *Kyoto* (京都) series, pencil and watercolor on paper, 2012

- *Peach* (桃), ink on paper, 2024

- Earlier bodies of work such as *Northern Shaanxi Suite* (陕北组画), *Liaodong Suite* (辽东组画), and later travel-based series including *Beijing Winter*, *Prague*, *German Aschaffenburg*, *Dongjiaominxiang Hotel*, and *Military Museum*

**Creative style**

Wu Yi's creative development is often described in three broad phases:

- **Early period**: known for expressive ink painting, with strong tension and emotional intensity.

- **After 2000**: moved toward a gentler, small-scale freehand style, often associated with a "memory aesthetic."

- **Since 2012**: engaged deeply with the meticulous *gongbi* tradition, reinterpreting classical forms such as *Xiuzhen Tu* and *Xianxian Xiangzhuan*.

A central quality of his work is the pursuit of **stillness (静)**. His process is framed as a form of spiritual cultivation rather than merely image-making. He frequently works in small formats, producing "suite paintings" that accumulate into a larger visual record, often accompanied by travel diaries. His subjects are typically drawn from specific places—Beijing, Prague, Aschaffenburg, Dunhuang, Kyoto—and his approach shifts language according to the atmosphere of each place.

Wu Yi has been described as opening a "third path" for ink modernization: he preserves the cultural root of Chinese ink while incorporating contemporary visual consciousness, maintaining a dialogue with Western painting without abandoning East Asian sensibility. His oil paintings are often plein-air observations, while his ink works tend to express imagined or internal worlds, yet a linear, calligraphic awareness runs through both.

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