1946年,吴冠中凭借优异成绩通过了公费留学生选拔考试,并于翌年赴法留学。留学期间,他通过自己的观察感到,在欧洲学习西方绘画的很多同胞,经过数年的留学生活后,其文化身份既不像欧洲人,也不像中国人,似乎只是一个“虚无缥缈的影子”。他们的作品,也只是一株株培育在“巴黎花圃里的东方盆景”而已。在此期间,吴冠中的内心里不断地积聚着“与生命痛痒相通的艺术更缘何产生”的困惑。敏感而强烈的自尊心,更是促发身处 In 1946, Wu Guanzhong passed the publicly-funded student selection examination with outstanding achievements and went to France to study in the following year. During his stay in Japan, he observed through his own observations that many of his compatriots who studied Western painting in Europe and after years of studying abroad did not have the same cultural identities as the European or the Chinese, and only seemed to be an “illusory shadow ”. Their work is just a strain of cultivation in the “Oriental Bonsai in the Paris flowerbed.” In the meantime, Wu Guanzhong’s heart is constantly accumulating “What is the origin of the art that communicates with the itching of life?”. Sensitive and strong self-esteem, it is to promote their place