{"id":278,"date":"2026-01-08T12:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T04:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lujinsong.com\/?page_id=278"},"modified":"2026-01-23T19:16:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T11:16:49","slug":"fantasy-color-freehand","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.lujinsong.com\/index.php\/fantasy-color-freehand\/","title":{"rendered":"Fantasy-Color"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My artistic practice is rooted in a continuous self-inquiry: Where should the contemporary brushstroke land after the vast tradition of Chinese ink painting?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.miaoliantang.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/%E5%BE%AE%E4%BF%A1%E5%9B%BE%E7%89%87_20251008192150_55_2-1024x709.jpg\" alt=\"The Fantasy-Color Freehand Art Museum and Studio of Contemporary Chinese Artist Lu Guanyu (Mu Rangong) in Hangzhou\" class=\"wp-image-3467\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The \u201cFantasy-Color Freehand\u201d style I founded is my answer. It is not a departure from tradition, but a profound \u201cinternal revolution.\u201d I regard the brushwork, ink tonalities, and philosophy of blank space in millennia of ink art as an irreplaceable gene pool and spiritual summit. What I strive for is to re-activate this heritage with the universal language of the contemporary world\u2014color and light\u2014allowing it to burst forth with new life in today\u2019s cultural soil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.miaoliantang.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/%E5%BE%AE%E4%BF%A1%E5%9B%BE%E7%89%87_20251201122308_77_311-621x1024.jpg\" alt=\" &quot;The Awakening Dragon of the East&quot; - A Fantasy-Color Freehand landscape painting by Mu Ran Gong (Lu Guanyu), exploring the spiritual dialogue between ink and vibrant color.\" class=\"wp-image-3430\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Technically, I have constructed the \u201cThree Inks, Five Colors, Two Lights\u201d system. Ink does not vanish but recedes into the painting\u2019s bone structure and foundation. Color ascends to the stage with unprecedented intensity and subjectivity, becoming the primary narrator. Light, as two intertwined energies of warmth and coolness, breathes temporality and spatial temperature into the picture plane. I internalize Huang Binhong\u2019s \u201cFive Brushes and Seven Inks\u201d as my framework, transform the scientific observation of Impressionist light into an internal rhythm of luminosity, and allow the texture of Dunhuang frescoes to reunite with the poetic conception of Song Dynasty landscapes within a new visual order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.miaoliantang.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/%E5%88%9B%E4%BD%9C%E4%B8%AD1-1024x606.jpg\" alt=\"The Fantasy-Color Freehand Art Museum and Studio of Contemporary Chinese Artist Lu Guanyu (Mu Rangong) in Hangzhou\" class=\"wp-image-3490\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Thus, \u201cFantasy-Color\u201d is the explicit contemporary language, while \u201cFreehand\u201d (Xieyi) is the intrinsic Eastern soul. My works are visually international, abstract, and elusive, yet their underlying code remains the philosophy and aesthetics formed through the thousand-year dialogue between brush, ink, and Xuan paper. I do not paint the form of landscapes; I construct a habitable spiritual field, condensing my contemporary understanding of \u201cZaohua\u201d (creation)\u2014encompassing nature, tradition, time, and the total projection of the creator\u2019s present state of being.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.miaoliantang.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/%E6%9F%A0%E6%AA%AC%E5%8D%8F%E5%A5%8F-687x1024.jpg\" alt=\" &quot;Concerto of the Lemon&quot; - A Fantasy-Color Freehand landscape painting by Mu Ran Gong (Lu Guanyu), exploring the spiritual dialogue between ink and vibrant color.\" class=\"wp-image-3415\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The evolution from \u201cLU Jinsong\u201d to \u201cMuran Gong\u201d marks the path from inheritance to initiation. My work is to enable ink, this most ancient Eastern medium, to confidently participate in the global contemporary art dialogue, offering a unique vision of the future that could only have grown from this very soil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.miaoliantang.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/%E9%87%8E%E8%8D%89%E4%B9%8B%E9%AD%82%E7%94%9F%E7%94%9F%E4%B8%8D%E6%81%AF%E4%B9%8B%E5%A4%A9%E4%BC%BC%E7%A9%B9%E5%BA%90-1024x510.jpg\" alt=\" &quot;The Eternal Soul of Wild Grassseries&quot; - A Fantasy-Color Freehand landscape painting by Mu Ran Gong (Lu Guanyu), exploring the spiritual dialogue between ink and vibrant color.\" class=\"wp-image-3565\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.miaoliantang.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/%E5%BE%AE%E4%BF%A1%E5%9B%BE%E7%89%87_20250328102703-1024x553.jpg\" alt=\" &quot;Origin of the Primordial Realm&quot; - A Fantasy-Color Freehand landscape painting by Mu Ran Gong (Lu Guanyu), exploring the spiritual dialogue between ink and vibrant color.\" class=\"wp-image-3466\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.miaoliantang.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/%E5%BE%AE%E4%BF%A1%E5%9B%BE%E7%89%87_20250615111501-997x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3401\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My artistic practice is rooted in a continuous self-inq [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":486,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-278","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lujinsong.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lujinsong.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lujinsong.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lujinsong.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lujinsong.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lujinsong.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":953,"href":"https:\/\/www.lujinsong.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/278\/revisions\/953"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lujinsong.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lujinsong.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}