INSPIRATIONS AND EXPERIMENTS

Modernism

In college, Chunming Yu spent much time to study Cubism movement and the Fauvist paintings; in particular, Georges Braque and Henry Matisse. The geometric forms in his paintings show clear influence from those studies. At the same time, Yu paid great attention to balance his color and forms.

Traditional Chinese Paintings

In his oil paintings, Yu also adopted the shifting perspectives of traditional Chinese paintings, in order to break away from the restrictions of time and space. Different from more decorative painters, he innovatively introduced light into his pictures, thus created a focal point for viewers, as well as added dimensions.
Wenda Gu, now a conceptual artist who lives in New York and enjoys an international fame, taught Chunming Yu at China Academy of Art in early 80s. Yu shared his instructors’ understandings in traditional art and the eagerness of creating something new from the old. Yu attempted an effect of ink on rice paper by diluting oil paint on canvas in his several paintings. Yu recently painted a series of oil paintings resembling traditional Chinese landscape paintings.

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