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吳 兆 銘 油畫作品欣賞

ZHAOMING WU'S ART WORKS

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ZHAOMING WU'S ART WORKS 吳兆銘油畫作品欣賞

吳兆銘，出生成長於中國廣州，廣州美術學院
文學士，舊金山美術大學美術碩士。其作品
在許多藝術博物館展出並長年得到世界各地的私
人收藏。曾任教於廣州美術學院，現任教於舊金
山美術大學研究生院繪畫系。每年受邀在美國各
地和歐洲進行繪畫高研班講學，並在美國各地舉
辦個人作品展和參加聯展。連續八年受邀任西班
牙歐州現代美術博物館國際肖像展評委，出版個
人作品集十一本。美國英文雜誌《國際藝術家》
《西南藝術》《美國藝術收藏家》《美術鑑賞》《藝
術論壇》《西部藝術》《詩人與藝術家》《外光繪畫》
《藝術家論藝術》《西部藝術與建築》《西部藝
術收藏家》以及法國雜誌《藝術實踐》西班牙《寫
實繪畫年鑑》中國雜誌《藝術大觀》均專版文章
介紹刊登其作品。

Wu Zhaoming, born and raised in Guangzhou,
China, holds a Bachelor of Arts degree
from the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts and
a Master of Fine Arts degree from Academy of
Art University in San Francisco. His works have
been exhibited in many art museums and have
been in private collections around the world for
many years. He has taught at the Guangzhou
Academy of Fine Arts and is currently teaching
in the Painting Department of the Graduate
School in Academy of Art University. Every year,
he is invited to teach the painting workshops
throughout the United States and Europe, and
holds solo exhibitions and participates in group
exhibitions throughout the United States. For
eight consecutive years, he was invited to
serve as a jury member of the Modern Portrait
International Competition at the Museum of
Modern Art of Europe, Spain, and published
eleven books of his personal works. The
American English art magazine: International
Artist, Southwest Art, American Art Collector,
Fine Art Connoisseur, Art Talk, Art of West,
Poets and Artists, Plein Air, Artist on Art, Western
Art and Architecture, Western Art Collectors,
and the French magazine Pratique Des Arts,
Spanish art book Artelibre - Arte Y Libertad, And
The Chinese magazine Art Panorama have all
featured his works in special articles.

肖像攝影 Portrait photography：Sorcha Augustine

ART 新視野 I 當代藝術家 CONTEMPORARY ARTIST

Review

For the past two decades, many of the finest We are proud to add his name to our roster of
artists to enter the American art scene hail from master artists with whom you may never have
China. The period of modernism held no influence the opportunity to work with on a personal level,
over Chinese art schools, whose mentors were and we believe he and the other Chinese artists
the Russian schools set up in the first half of the who have come to our country have brought us a
20th Century. Ironically, the beauty and power of magnificent gift indeed. Don't miss collecting this
late 19th Century, western, realist art was saved important video for your reference library if you
by the Communist regime of the Soviet Union are a figurative artist. You will want to collect all
when it banned all modern art from its schools his books and videos when you see the mastery
and Universities. under his brush.

Despite great suppression of artistic Zhaoming Wu is also a consummate draftsman
experimentation, Western representative art was who can draw in any medium. If you have
sanctioned and encouraged, and used to spread purchased his book on drawing, you know that
communist propaganda through the images of he uses the charcoal medium in many different
happy, working class figurative art to a people ways to create works that have distinctive looks.
who could understand the painted images these This new video shows you how he approaches
paintings represented. drawing the head of a beautiful girl whose hair
might be a challenge for many.
While our Western art culture disintegrated into
abstraction and paint thrown on canvases with no His process of building from a layer of vine
content, the Russians and Chinese continued the charcoal (in many forms) before layers with the
study and practice of classical painting. With the more permanent charcoal pencil and compressed
easing of tensions between China and the West, charcoal is easy to understand. He uses his
many of the Chinese, trained in the classical fingers, palms, paper napkins and kneaded eraser
style practiced by the Russians, immigrated to to smooth, blend, and highlight the lighted areas
the United States and brought their long-lost of the drawing.
expertise to America.
It is magical to see how he pulls this incredibly
Zhaoming Wu is one of those artists, whose beautiful head out of blank paper. If drawing is
knowledge and talents merge into a convoluted your nemesis, this is a program you will want to
path from the Nineteenth Century Masters down view over and over to see how little is required to
to us, today. He is currently one of the most create a head of astounding sculptural quality on
valued faculty members of the San Francisco a flat piece of paper.
Academy of Art, and he instructs and mentors
artists in the graduate program in representative If you haven't yet purchased Zhaoming Wu's book
painting and drawing. on drawing, this is a perfect opportunity to acquire
both the book and the video. The book has been
We had the great privilege of filming him in his translated into English for the most information
home studio painting a lovely model swathed in about all of the various ways that Mr. Wu works
cascading folds of material, a subject for which he with his drawing tools.
is becoming known as a master painter. This is
the first of three video programs we filmed during This is another program we recommend for your
our sessions, and one you won't want to miss. Wu art video library, and one you will refer to often
uniquely articulates what makes a painting, how if you are interested in perfecting your drawing
he approaches the process, and how he works techniques.
from the live model, the photo, and computer
references in his gallery work.

ZHAOMING WU'S ART WORKS 吳兆銘油畫作品欣賞

藝術教學影評 :

在過去二十年間，許多來自中國出色的藝術家 吳兆銘同時也是一個完美極致的素描家，他能
進入了美國的藝術界。二十世紀上半葉，俄國人建 在素描裡運用各種材質。如果你擁有他的素描集，
立了自己的藝術學院教育體系，作為中國人的老 你就會知道他以各種不同的手法運用木炭媒介，
師，他們讓那個時期的中國藝術院校完全沒有受到 創造出獨特的作品。在新的一部有關素描的影片
現代主義的影響。令人諷刺的是當所有其他的大學 中，則呈現給你的是他如何描繪一個美麗姑娘的
和藝術學院都屈從於現代藝術的時候，蘇聯共產主 頭像，然而姑娘的頭髮對於許多人可能是難以刻
義政權卻把十九世紀下半葉西方的美與力量和寫 畫的挑戰。
實主義藝術保存下來了。
可以容易地理解到在使用較難修改的木炭筆和
儘管藝術的探索受到壓制 , 而西方的寫實藝術 炭精條之前，他先用木炭條鋪上一層色調。然後
是得到認可和鼓勵的。運用人們能明白的寫實繪 他用他的手指，手掌，紙巾和軟泥性橡皮擦去柔和，
畫，通過歡樂的形象，描寫工人階級人物的藝術去 融合，提點高光和抹淡素描的亮部。
傳播社會主義政治。
這像魔幻般地看著他如何在一張白紙上難以置
當我們西方藝術文化崩潰落入抽象藝術或只是 信地塑造出那美麗的頭像。如果素描於你是有難
將顏料擲向畫布而毫無內容時，俄國人和中國人繼 度的挑戰，你將會想一遍又一遍地反復觀看這部
續研究和實踐古典繪畫。由於中國與西方的關係緩 影片以便了解是他如何以一些小小的刻畫在平面
和，許多受過俄國寫實風格訓練的中國人移居到了 的紙上創造出令人驚嘆的雕塑般的頭像。
美國，同時將失傳已久的專業知識帶來了美國。
如果你還未擁有吳兆銘的素描集，這是最好的
吳兆銘是能將知識和才華融合一起，以迂迴的 機會收藏他的素描集和影片。素描集關於吳先生
方式把十九世紀的大師們帶來給今天的我們的藝 使用素描工具的各種技巧的文字內容都已翻譯成
術家中的一位。他是舊金山美術學院最有價值的教 為英文。
授之一，他指導研究生院裡的研究生，教授寫實繪
畫和素描課程。 我們很自豪地將他的名字列入我們的大師藝術
家名單裡，這些藝術家可能是你從未有機會跟隨
我們非常榮幸地能拍攝他在工作室裡繪畫包裹 他們作個人學習的。我們相信他與其他中國藝術
著層疊流暢布料的可愛模特的影片，這是讓他成名 家來到我們的國家，同時也把橫溢的才華帶來給
躋身為大師級藝術家的題材。這是三部影片中的第 我們。如果你是位人物畫家，就不要錯過收藏這
一部，也是你不想錯失的一部影片。在影片中我們 些重要的影片。當你看到在他筆下高超的技巧，
特別地表現了是什麼成就了一張畫，他是如何追尋 你將會希望收藏到他所有的著作和影片。
這過程，是如何通過真人模特、照片和電腦參照去
完成給予畫廊展出的作品。

約翰妮 . 里尼度
美國里尼度藝術教學影視公司

ART 新視野 I 當代藝術家 CONTEMPORARY ARTIST

Portrait of the Week: Adroit Strokes Mean
Everything

By Andre Webster
June 14, 2017

In this ongoing series, Fine Art Today delves into character and physiognomic details are captured
the world of portraiture, highlighting historical with accuracy, sensitivity, and expression.
and contemporary examples of superb quality Close inspection of the canvas reveals how Wu
and skill. This week: “Man with Mustache” by a has made every stroke matter. Consider the
contemporary master whose name will not soon shadowed portion of the man’s face. Just below
be forgotten. his eye are a handful of strokes in a warm red
hue. At distance, these few strokes merge to
Although recognized for his expressive and loose form a beautiful flash of reflected light. Indeed,
brushwork, contemporary master Zhaoming Wu if one pays close attention, the entire visage is
makes every stroke count. Though they often composed of similar strokes, from the man’s
appear fragmented and perhaps, to some, blurry, eyes, to his stylized mustache, pressed collar,
careful consideration of his works reveal details and pierced lips.
that continue to evoke a sense of wonder. All of Wu’s works produce similar, remarkable
effects. With a keen eye for color and skillfully
This week’s feature portrait is a superb example placed strokes of the brush, Wu captures an
of not only Wu’s talent, but also a highlights how entire world of luminance, character, and so
little our brains need to “get the picture.” Set much more.
against a gray-green background, a mustached
man gazes out upon the viewer. He is wearing This article was featured in Fine Art Today, a
a dark cap and illuminated from just outside the weekly e-newsletter from Fine Art Connoisseur
upper right edge of the canvas. The sitter’s magazine.

靈動的筆觸意味著一切

在這個連續系列中，《今日美術》將深入研究 細看，可以看出吳兆銘如何讓每一筆觸發揮作用。
肖像繪畫的領域，著重於在美術史上和當代的具有 細想著模特的面部陰影的部分，暖紅色度的少許
卓越水準和技巧的作品。今周作品“八字胡的男人” 筆觸就運用在眼睛下面，從一定的距離看，這些
由一位當代大師創作，他的名字將會被人們記住。 筆觸結合在一起組成漂亮的肉色反光。從深一層
吳兆銘 ---- 雖然他以用筆的表現性和虛化性而 來講，如果更進一步觀察，從眼睛到有風格的八
聞名，但他的每一個筆觸都有作用。儘管它們通常 字胡，緊壓的衣領和嘴唇，整個容貌都由相近的
呈現出片段狀甚至模糊，但在對其作品進行周詳考 筆觸譜成。所有吳先生的作品都有同樣出眾的效
量後，便知這是對細節的暗示，他不斷以此喚起觀 果，以一雙對色彩敏銳的眼睛和處置筆觸的卓越
者不可思議的感覺。
技巧，吳兆銘捕捉住了整個世界的光度和特色以
這週的肖像是一個出色的例子。不僅顯示吳兆 及更多更多。
銘的才華，同時也體現出人們的大腦如何只需小量

的細節就可以去“理解圖像”。在灰色的背景前， -- 摘自美國《美術鑑賞》雜誌的《今日美術》

八字胡男人望著觀者，他頭戴深色帽子，光從畫面 周刊（2017 年 1 月刊）
右上角邊緣照射過來。模特的個性和臉相細節被準
每週肖像專欄藝術評論人 : 安德魯·韋伯斯特
確、感性地捕捉到，表情也被仔細觀察。靠近畫面

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蒼白年代 Pale Age 48x48

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紅與白 White&red 20x16-2019

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憂鬱調 Green Mood

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畫室 Studio 11x14-2020

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少女峯 JUNGFRAU 18X24-2018

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日蝕 Eclipse 20x16-2019

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迴想 Lingering memory 24x30-2015

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2021 室 Room 2021-20x16

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片刻 The moment

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朝代 Dynasty 20x16

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日出 Dawn arrival 40x30

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彩色布料 Colorful Drapery 16x20

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長發的妮 Nhi (1)

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惠特尼 Whitney

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椅 Chair 16x20_2007

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下凡 Down to the Earth 20x16

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昨日再現 Yesterday once again 18x18 2013 (4) - Copy

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抓拍 Snapshot 8x10-2016

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布紋 Calligraphy of folds 20x16- 2015

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沙漠之夜 The night of desert 20x16

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夜色 Night fall

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北非記憶 Memory of north africa

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勝利女神 Winged victory 18x14 (1)

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靈動之態 Dynamic Movement

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普東与橙布 Pudon in Oringe 16x12

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溝火 Bonfire

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靜夜追憶 Remembering Quiet Night 12x16

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城市之頂 City roof

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黑與黑 Into Dark

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白與白 Into Light

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約翰 John

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約翰 ( 二 ) John 2

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丹娜 Dana

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戴耳環的女士 Lady with earring

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水手 Sailor

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格雷戈裡 Gregory

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埃莉卡 Erica

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喬治 George

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天黛 Tendai

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羅伯特 Bob

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福斯小姐 Fox

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傑西 Jess

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莒倍卡 Rebeca

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