Cloud of Life

Cloud of life ---Taste of life
                
 Artists of every era are attempting to reflect the glamour of art by the latest artistic insight and means, there for deduced an art history.  How to grasp the characteristics of the times today is the question for contemporary artist of the urgent need (of the urgent need for what…) to think about but there are some remarkable artists have taken out satisfactory answered in the meantime.

Taihu Lake Stone is the symbols of “literary temperament" in China, is far from a stone. （more than could be better?）Faced with such a complete and connotation of "image", what we can be done (passive?)except pay (need +ing) homage to? This is the question that I have thought for a long time. The contemporary art is a kind of very " direct " art , but this "direct" requests are (two verbs?) "accurate". This “accurate” way is the understanding and penetrating solution to the spirit of the times,(better a full stop) I think we should grasp and understand the contemporary spirit.

Wang Changming was born in Wuxi and grew up in Wuxi, He was used to the wide expanse of misty Taihu Lake with poplar and willow decorated (passive?) banks. He was born in 1964. When he became sensible to the adult world, the China south of the Changjiang River, symbolic of the refined culture of the Chinese man of letters and scholars, was still laden with (two verbs?) the old atmosphere having been damaged by the “great leap forward” and the cultural revolution, The blue mountains were still blue, the green waters were still green. Inside the Jichang Garden, although filled with tourists, the winding paths were still leading to the secluded spot…
Only in the nineties, the crazy and rapid urbanization changed China all over: we saw everywhere copies of Manhattan, secular pleasures with bright colours---
In 2006，Wang Changming rented a workshop in Fei Jia Village, (better full stop) his works underwent the second big change. Two categories of works : one category cutting Taihu Lake Stone into cubic shapes creating a strong contrast between the natural curving outline with crude material and the stiff direct line carved with modern knives with smooth surface. Perhaps the ancient scholarly culture represented by Taihu Lake Stone was only a memory and the innermost feeling of Wang Changming. The reality he had to face was that the social environment belonging to the Taihu Lake Stone had disappeared. The rapid urbanization with skyscrapers and quick life pace was cutting the Taihu Lake Stone inside his heart exactly like the modern knives (cutting sth like knife ? this should be illogical). The cutting pleasure brought about by the modern knives  may not necessarily not be (duple negatives? ) the pleasures brought about by the real life of today.（Li Xianting）