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Zhu Wei is the world’s most renowned contemporary Chinese ink painter and one of the most important explorers and representatives of the art form. He is also among the very first group of distinguished contemporary Chinese artists recognized by the international art audience in the nineties of the 21st century. 朱伟是最具国际声誉的当代水墨画家，是中国当代水墨画最重要的探索者和代表人物之一。朱伟同时又是上个世纪九十年代最早一批得到国际艺术界认可的中国当代艺术家中的一位。
----Zhu Wei's Album of Ink Paintings 1988-2008, published by Plum Blossoms (International) Ltd., Hong Kong, 2008, p.11. 《朱伟水墨册页1988-2008》，Plum Blossoms画廊（国际）有限公司2008年香港出版，p.11 |
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He successfully created the unique artistic symbols such as bald soldiers, big red flags, five-pointed stars, lattice windows and banana leaves, and successfully tranformed these symbols into certain artistic form. It should be said that this is a process in which new themes and new experiences, including "socialism experience", enter into the traditional art form and then reform this art form, and the result of which naturally affects the overall structure and treatment of the general appearance of a image. 他成功地创造了光头军人、大红旗、五角星、格子窗、芭蕉叶等具有个人特点的艺术符号，并让这些符号成功地转换为形式。应该说，这是新题材与新感受——包括“社会主义经验”进入传统程式，继而改造传统程式的过程，其结果又自然的影响了画面的结构与处理方式。
----History of Contemporary Chinese Art, published by Shanghai Painting and Calligraphy Publishing House in 2013, p.525. 《中国当代艺术史》，上海书画出版社2013年出版，p.525页。 |
Zhu Wei is the first artist adopting meticulous (Gong-bi) ink painting language into Chinese contemporary art scene. When many Chinese new artists were working on “political pop” and “ironic realism” oil paintings, Zhu was exploring the possibility to reflect contemporary Chinese political and social life with traditional meticulous ink and wash, and had completed representative series from then on. His motifs differentiate his art from those traditional meticulous ink paintings, however, the techniques Zhu employed, such as coloring, outlining, blending and other, still remain the fundamental characteristics of traditional. The dramatic contrast between traditional art language and contemporary political social motifs makes his art irresistibly appealing.
朱伟是第一位将工笔画手法引进中国当代艺术领域的艺术家。当大量的中国新锐艺术家用油画来做“政治波普”和“讽刺现实主义”作品时，他便开始探索传统的工笔画来表现当代中国的政治生活的可能性，完成了有代表性的系列作品。他的作品已经与传统的工笔水墨画产生了巨大的差距，但在设色、勾勒、晕染等技术层面保持了基本的特征。他作品的传统语言与当代政治生活图景之间的反差使作品获得了难以抗拒的吸引力。
----ZHU WEI 1988 - 2012, published by Today Art Museum, Beijing, 2013, back cover. 《朱伟 1988 - 2012》，今日美术馆2013年北京出版，封底 |
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