The Art of Ai Fang Wu - Wu-Preston, L.
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This book depicts the mastery of the artist's works in landscapes, portraits, and sketches. He was passionate in drawings as a child and eventually entered the Hangchow College of Arts and Designs. During the 1930s, he travelled throughout China and encountered people of all walks of life, as seen in his brilliantly executed pencil sketches of working people. He painted and drew the everyday life of his native China. As a lover of nature, he always tried to depict scenes of realism.

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This book depicts the mastery of the artist's works in landscapes, portraits, and sketches. He was passionate in drawings as a child and eventually entered the Hangchow College of Arts and Designs. During the 1930s, he travelled throughout China and encountered people of all walks of life, as seen in his brilliantly executed pencil sketches of working people. He painted and drew the everyday life of his native China. As a lover of nature, he always tried to depict scenes of realism.
Autorenporträt
A multi-talented artist, sculptor and writer, Ai Fang Wu was born on Feb. 19, 1917, the middle of 3 brothers in Kwangtung province, China. At the age of 11, his father died, and he had to help sell the family home at 13. His oldest brother had squandered the family fortune in drugs during trading missions outside of China. Despite all this, he managed to put himself through the famous Hangchow Art Institute by his own efforts.At a very young age, he was passionate about drawing and sketches. He would draw on whatever medium he could find, even on rough paper. He grew up unfortunately in an unstable era. During the Chinese Civil and Sino-Japanese war, the Institute he was attending had to be moved constantly.He travelled throughout China drawing or sketching and painting myths, working people and landscapes. Amidst the Chinese civil war, he and his wife escaped to Hong Kong in 1949.There he worked as an editor, illustrator for publishing companies and as an art designer in a toy company. He also created expressive bronze sculptures and wrote novels.As a lover of nature, he painted exquisite seascapes in Hong Kong. He also painted numerous rural scenes and people engaged in fishing, farming, and other activities. He liked sketching people in different positions, be it walking, straddling, reclining, or squatting. All these positions areevidenced in his paintings. Ai Fang Wu was very much a realistic painter; if the light was dark, he would paint the scene dark. He preferred to paint what he saw.In 1981, he and his wife emigrated to Canada to be with his adopted daughter and family. He was enraptured by the beauty of North America and had travelled to different places in Canada and U.S. painting many landscapes.Due to his sharp wit and humor, he was the author of over 40 books. And one of them was made into a movie. He illustrated all the lively characters in his book titled SALT.He passed away in 1994, he regretted not being able to travel elsewhere due to his declining health. But he felt that he had accomplished a body of work.As his adopted daughter, I undertake this opportunity to publish his life works in his honor.