On November 22 in Beijing Poly is now 09 autumn auction of contemporary Chinese art market in the evening, Wu Guanzhong work "Tanzania Falls" will be coming out shooting games. This works in 1975 to 100 × 180cm prime super-Chi Fu won the auction in the history of the greatest works of Wu Guanzhong oil paintings, more valuable, this is the only time Mr. Wu received a lifetime political tasks of the country-level ceremony creation, montage precious.

Mr. Wu Guanzhong in multiple articles have mentioned that to his desk decorated with a stone, above the carving of "straying into Laoshan" four characters, and drop the "this summer was to stay at the Laoshan painting; Yixing Wu Guanzhong "This kind of knowledge models. The old painter, it was a memory carved in stone. To this end, Wu Guanzhong has been painted one, entitled "straying into Laoshan" works to commemorate the art during the Cultural Revolution this unforgettable experience.

During the Cultural Revolution, Wu Guanzhong are "step aside" in a class of persons, which for his creative hand, provided a rare opportunity to be creative throughout his entire 70 years. In his later autobiography, I had mentioned that the mid-70s, he returned from the bottom in Hebei Province to Beijing, when the "university were not school, college is an empty city", so Wu had leisure, "all the time can be put into painting, and no interference. "In his own words, he was" serene state of mind, "With the whole" painting heaven and earth, forget the troubles of the earth ", and sometimes a painting for eight hours, or even eat or drink for him , the mid-70s, he has a "strong energy", has "too rare happiness", and thus have more opportunity to practice the arts and in-depth reflection.

Throughout Wu's artistic creation, the mid-70s have also become crucial in his long artistic career as a stage, or even can be said that he was the art of the mid-70s quest, not only determines his later artistic creation, the important transformation, He also provided further support for the theory of thought. "Straying into Laoshan" is a story of place in this period. Actually, this unforgettable Wu Guanzhong's "Laoshan" marriage, initially simply because the creation of two oil paintings which can be accomplished, of which one is what we have seen the creation in 1975, "Tanzania waterfall."

The Cultural Revolution, the mid-Wu had received the creation of a national task, in his autobiography had been filed in 1975, when he was ordered to go to Qingdao, for the then Ministry of Railways Quartet, Machinery Factory, Qingdao, aided Tanzania to Zambia, the President of the railway car Creation two oil paintings, decorative carriages as a tapestry of images used in the blueprint for a snow-capped mountains, which portrayed the Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, and the other one is that this performance of Zambia's Victoria Falls.

Many years later, Wu Guanzhong in Qingdao is also home to students, Wang Jin-Wu's special author recalls the experience of this period, he also mentioned that the reason why Mr. Wu Guanzhong and Qingdao, and the Laoshan destined, in fact, originated from a national task. Wang recalled in the text: "1975 China's assistance to Tanzania, Zambia, Tanzania-building - Zambia railway projects are nearing completion. Quartet Locomotive and Rolling Stock Works to accept the task of the manufacture of train cars, including two cars is our government sent to Tanzania, Zambia, The two presidents of the official cars, each one. The plant has a design of Section Zhu Renfu creativity that is inside each section are hung in a public oil painting. As a result, Zhu Renfu will be invited Mr. Wu Guanzhong Wu, Qingdao ... ... to blue after living in Qingdao, the door next to the Quartet and Western Railway Factory Guest House, temporary studio is also located there. "Wang Jin-Wu learned to home in Qingdao, news, went to see their own teachers. The Wu's writing at that time nearing completion, so he had the honor to see these two pieces of a huge Wu Guanzhong oil paintings. According to Wang Jin-house article describes, these two paintings to him very impressed, "frame can not remember the exact size. Painting the subject matter of course, with Tanzania, Zambia on. A painting is the highest mountain in Africa, United Republic of Tanzania -- - Mount Kilimanjaro, one is located between Zambia and Zimbabwe, Great Falls - Victoria Falls. Wu to especially sensitive to the formal beauty and rational treatment composition, in order to deal with high-profile high-level gray color. picture bright, quite decorative means. "

Although Wu's these two paintings to his left a deep impression on the students, but the artist himself later, it seems no more attention to them, many of his later text, despite repeated mention of these two paintings created and "mistakenly entered the Laoshan" experience, but these two paintings for the creative process and the result is never say any more. Perhaps, after the completion of these two paintings, the earliest they are stored in the four locomotives. 2005, No. 9, "Qingdao Illustrated," a reflection on the relationship between Wu and Qingdao in the article, I mentioned the Quartet Locomotive Works employees in the Chung passage confirms this point, he said, was painting, "hung in the Factory office wall, "but unfortunately," no one knows its value, "and then later, as time goes on, these two paintings end up," I do not know the whereabouts of the. "

Wang Jin-home in 2004, the article provides us with important tips, he reminded us, Wu Guanzhong oil paintings of these two is a very important work. Fortunately, the time and did not completely bury the classic masters of the past, most recently, these two works before the world again. From our front of this "waterfall in Tanzania," is not difficult to see the screen just as Wang Jin Jia said, it's composition is the artist to sensitive and rational formal beauty to be addressed and, more importantly, it is a high-profile high-level gray dealing with the relationship between color, which is precisely the choice of gray mid-gestation in 70 Wu Guanzhong, "Oil and Water," a sign of the conversion process, it became the great master of communication before the age of 70 after the Cultural Revolution of art exploration and the creation of a new road link between It Wu Guanzhong, "brings a bright silver-gray world", according to recently deceased art critic ink Zhai as saying that Wu's choice is "a strategic and tactical value of the" because "the Chinese nation's traditional silver gray aesthetic tone. " So, from this sense, "said Tanzania waterfall" shown by the "bright, high-profile high-level ash handling" has already foreshadowed the creation of Wu Guanzhong was pick up the transformation of the ink.

For the Wu Guanzhong oil / water transition process, Zhai ink analysis, it is between 70-80 years, there is a light from the dense to the trend. The early 70s he was working when the decentralization of Hebei Province, "Fenkuang works," a strong feeling and color are relatively thick. In 1975's "Laoshan turquoise", the color will gradually become bright and elegant. "Tanzania waterfall" of course, an important representative of this transformation. "Silver Gray Qudan by thick, marking the great master of painting the West and the East to reduce the proportion of the increase in the proportion of marks from the traditional to the modern art of Wu Guanzhong's gradual transition to complete."

United Republic of Tanzania as Africa's largest waterfall waterfall is also the world's largest and one of the most beautiful waterfalls, the spectacular scene of course, but we need to look not scenery, "we need to look at from the author is reflecting the soul of the mirror house" in landscape, this landscape is actually the artist's art. "Tanzania waterfall" The reason was, "no one knows its value," perhaps it is because people will only look fixed on the landscape at the expense of its position as a modern transformation of Wu Guanzhong's artistic vision of the important value of signs.