Void Realm II

chinese material of ink and brushes, water, rice paper

and natural pigments

68 x 68 cm

About

The Paintbrush artist Pu Wei, a native of Kunming, Yunnan, China, is well-known as an “innovative color of Surupa painting” artist in China. She was reported in Chinese influential art webs, magazines and newspapers, TVs, CNC world news, participated in international art exhibitions in New York, London, Paris, Strasbourg, Miami, San Diego, Dubai, Tokyo, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Switzerland etc.，and won many international art awards.

Pu Wei is the first painter who apply the mind method of Great Perfection (Dzogchen) Dharma in contemporary art, and create a new artistic expression style of Chinese painting – The color of Surupa. This is a new type of Chinese painting rooted in Eastern philosophy and Chinese cultural, which pushes the art of Chinese mental imagery to a higher dimension and level. Contemporary Chinese painting - Color of Surupa series are full of colors, lights and shadows, artistic conceptions and prospects, using Chinese ink and brushes, water, rice paper and natural pigments.

The traditional Chinese cultural ideology Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism all point to the same goal---staying connected to the nature, achieving a transcended mind without being stimulated by reality environment. Chinese artists through history tend to consider as essential that art works must express “spirit” or “rhythm”. The artist with the capability to express the “inner spirit” of the subjects they are painting is held in high esteem. Pu Wei’s wide range of brush paintings contain the aesthetic ideals expressed by Oriental art thought and Western abstract arts. Her brush paintings convey the essence of the traditional Chinese art ethics, which emphasizes “likeness in unlikeness”. Pu Wei has merged into her works the Western impressionist and abstract styles called “the imagery style” that reveals the illusions of visible reality or invisible void world.

Pu Wei’s unique contribution in brush painting lies in her choice of aesthetic preference that is deeply grounded in the traditional Chinese major philosophies significantly. The ideal aesthetic art realm promoted is to bring out “inner spirit” or “vitality” of the subject artists are depicting. Pu Wei paints with a strong sense of modern and cutting-edge fashion. Her paintings, thick and heavy in colors, convey the profound life meaning and vitality.

Statement

I think the ultimate goal of art is to obtain the freedom of the soul. No matter how noisy and prosperous the art world is today, art will eventually move towards a lofty spiritual world. My art has been far away from the material world and social reality, I found a new path from Eastern philosophy and wisdom: meditation. By using the highest level of mind training —— the Great Perfection (Dzogchen) mind method to create art, I directly enter the “empty essence" of my inner awareness, and arrive at an ideal kingdom that transcends social reality, which is void realm. There, I feel the “love” energies from the universe, nature and life. Such as: Light, Peace, Harmony, Warmth, Calm, Joy, Relaxation, Happiness, Purity, Freedom, etc. These feelings are frequencies and vibrations; There, I obtained spiritual sublimation and soul freedom.

Meditation helps me open the door to connect with the universe and nature. I feel the higher frequency lights and colors and the profound natural states. I believe that in addition to the sights of the physical world that our eyes can see, there is also the natural state of higher dimensions of invisible space that is perceived with the soul. Connect with the universe and nature through meditation, I got rid of the shackles of the real material world and gained true freedom of the soul. This is a very perfect kind of life experience, and I feel extremely joyful and happy. I would love to convey these universe love energies to the audience through my paintings. "Void Realm Series" are the esoteric images of the soul I perceive, a higher-dimensional mental imagery projection with extraordinary information and energy. My works are pure spiritual artistic expressions, belonging to the metaphysical category of spiritual supremacy, and are an artistic medium and channel to help people improve their spiritual level and realize noble soul.