Творчість Ву Вейшана у контексті національних класичних традицій та вільного експресіонізму

Abstract

У статті досліджується творчість видатного китайського скульптора Ву Вейшана, аналізуються його монументальні й станко-ві роботи, визначено поняття «скульптура вільного експресіонізму», що характеризує стильову установку його пластики, своєрідну манеру, яка зближує культури Сходу й Заходу. This article deals with the famous Chinese sculptor Wu Weishan, whose art is well known not only in many provinces of our country, but also in many countries of the world. The exhibitions of works of this artist are always very popular, gaining a wide circles of supporters of his talent around the world and the desire of many museums to introduce his works to the plans of their exhibition work, marked, as it was claimed in Europe, an exciting expressive form. Unfortunately, in Ukraine, the sculptural heritage of Wu Weishan was little known before, and only in recent years, experts in oriental plastics, the professionals who are aware of its expressive plastic, in which is expressed the essence of Chinese wisdom, embodied in the teachings of Confucius and Lao Tzu. As follows, the task of this scientific publication follows from the goal of the study – to highlight the specifics of the sculptural heritage of the outstanding artist from Beijing and to analyze his main works, which makes up and set the scientific goal. The problem of «His exciting expressive form ...» spoken from a high podium in France, expressed the essential aspects of Wu Weishans plastic that with its deep roots reaches from the ancient traditions of Chinese art and emotion expressive means meets the criteria of innovative ideas about creativity. The artist gives to his art an opportunity to know human beings in a person and directs it to the way in which such knowledge borders on the notions of Goodness. Wu Weishan thus identifies the purpose of man to be directed towards to the Good, and with him – the morals, beauty and purity that was predetermined by the culture, art of China during the millennia of their development. Wu Weishan, as a sculptor, invites the viewer to recognize and assert a spiritual, beautiful, human in man, and this moral has in China an ancient humanistic roots. The author raised in the article highlight the purpose of art of the sculptor Wu Weishan as a national artist of high artistic quality, who knows, loves, honors East and reaches out openness, sincerity and kindness of the West, asserting their own multifaceted practice: culture has no any boundaries, it belongs to humanity.