Lu paints from the heart
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MODIFYING traditional ink-wash painting can be difficult because of the absence of vivid colors, layers and textures in the ancient genre. But Chinese artist Lu Chuntao succeeds. His solo exhibition titled “Spiritual Universe” featuring nearly 30 ink-wash paintings is now currently on display at Poly Art Space at Pacific Plaza in Hong Kong.
This is his third solo-exhibition in Hong Kong since 1997. Through hazy moonlight, starry skies, misty dawns, poignant twilight and vast lotus pools, the artist creates images brimming with a sense of mystery and illusion. His skillful use of water and ink reveals a deep understanding of the classical practice of “substituting ink for color” but is simultaneously completely at home with the theoretical conceptions of modern abstract expression.
Instead of limiting himself to the concrete characteristics of the lotus leaves and blossoms, he pursues a state that Huang Binhong (1865-1955) described as being “of absolute likeness and absolute unlikeness to the object.”
“My work is more like a short poem narrating a soliloquy from my heart as if it has discovered a musical rhythm that beats among these still points, lines and planes,” Lu said.
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