Purple Air Comes from the East, Unbounded Colors, Wu Deng-yi’s Purple Ink Aesthetics

Oriental ink painting, influenced by Western painting in the 20th century, has developed differently. Modern masters such as Zhang Daqian, Lin Fengmian, Wu Guanzhong, etc. believed that oriental art must have a new style. Therefore, they extracted the spirit of western modernism and integrated it into oriental ink painting. On the traditional ink color, they gave rich and vivid colors to form a contemporary color ink art.
Color ink art can be said to be the origin of modern oriental art. It has innovative characteristics in itself. It integrates abstraction, emotion, thought, etc., and constantly extracts various forms. Purple color, rendering it, looking back on the century-old development of color ink, it is obvious that few people use purple in painting. The aesthetics of purple ink can be said to be a new generation of color ink innovation.
Wu Deng-yi is a representative of purple ink aesthetics. His use of purple is fresh and refined, elegant and sentimental, and there is a splendid show in the world, like a poem of landscape, forming a unique color ink style.

The Boat in Gorge, The Shade in My Mind  132.5×66.5cm Ink & Color on Paper 2020

Surging forward  66.5*66.2cm Ink & Color on Paper 2021

Journey of Colors  66x67cm Ink & Color on Paper 2020