“The bark of this type of pine peels from its trunk in irregular patches, producing a mottled pattern of white and brown of exceptional beauty…Whereas Van Gogh, influenced by Japan’s ukiyo-e paintings, tended in his later works to find sharp contrasts between his dark-colored outlines and brighter blocks of color, Wu Guanzhong distilled his lines and colors from their sources in nature, and when painting a scene, would highlight the aesthetic beauty of these geometric elements and colors…The artist from this point is clearly no longer limiting his artistic expression to capturing a ‘likeness’ or ‘imitation’ of what he sees, but instead, is refining and distilling from nature a kind of beauty composed of colors, spaces, and lines.”

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