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Xiaogang Zhu Biography


Xiaogang Zhu is known for his mastery with the gouache medium. He focuses on landscapes of places with which he is familiar - cities in China and the Yangtze River, Washington State and Arizona.

Occasionally he works in oil, but primarily he paints in gouache, a water base opaque medium.

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About his work, the artist writes: "I don't want to be arrogant, but I think my paintings are special, and I put a lot of myself into them…it is the most important thing for me to catch the moment of beauty of light and color.

The subject matter is always secondary, although my feelings seem to link more with my hometown landscape from China."

"As a matter of fact, since I'm more interested in color, I treat almost any object as color blocks, shapes or dots.

I concentrate more on pursuing the right relationship among those color blocks, instead of trying to paint each individual object. In order to pursue the right harmonic color relationship, I need to wor