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Wu Ming Zhong: Fragile Bodies Wu Ming Zhong (武明中) was born in...





















Wu Ming Zhong: Fragile Bodies

Wu Ming Zhong (武明中) was born in Hebei province China in 1963. He is the Associate Professor & Director of the Oil Painting Research Office for the College of Fine Arts at Capital Normal University. He was a visiting scholar at Liebin Academy of Fine Arts in Russia & Buffalo State College in the USA.

“The glassy, transparent human figures I paint were born out of heartache, a mental suffering caused by my experience with the frailty of human relations. Fate dictated that I would have that experience & that it would pour into my creativity.”

via: Yang Gallery (Singapore/Beijing)

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