Click here for help on searching . If you plan on making multiple searches, you might wish to make a bookmark for this page. If China can be said to be raising an MTV generation, then Wu Ershan wants to be part of it. His attraction to visual media stems more from the visual pleasure it is capable of creating than the overt message it is capable of conveying. Newer is better.
Oil painting is dead.
You can't erase this reality. In few other art forms is it condoned to shed the old and embrace the new, but with video artists, the sense of immediacy that captivates its viewers also affects its makers. Wu is only too happy to embrace the direct and active power of video art and be free of the worries of color, framing and brushstroke that dictate the limits of oil painting. I never paint anymore. See, I hang my clothes on my old frames.