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Karl Weiming Lu

Lives and works in Sydney, Australia
http://www.kwluart.com/

Karl Weiming Lu is regarded as a true contemporary global and the significant”85 New Wave Art Movement”. Trained in both

Renaissance man and a distinctive artist of philosophy and Eastern and Western traditions, he often combines the two to
science & technology. His life and art spans from East to create unique hybrid styles of mixed media of acrylic and oil with
West, in 1991, the celebrated Hangzhou artist and engineer of both oil and Chinese ink brush techniques.” The Memory Series
China relocated to Australia to have his postgraduate studies 2002-03” evokes both real and imaginary landscapes where

in philosophy and international studies at The University of 1980’s Chinese students pondered philosophy, psychology,
Wollongong, and The University of Sydney respectively. He literature, political economics, art, and science. Lu first created
further achieved triple master’s degrees in Art, Architecture his original” Dripping Fluid” technique in his “Memory Series”
and Design from The University of New South Wales, Australia. in 2003 and then fully embraces the distinctive abstract style

He is a Premium-Plus Member of Australia National Association in his ongoing” The Dripping Fluid Series”. Karl Lu’s most recent
for Visual Arts, and a visiting Professor of Boya Think Tank of ongoing ” The Origin Series” had been created since 2010, (such
Beijing University. as those being published here), employs Chinese ink brush
technique in an homage to science, bio-forms, life, time space,

Lu has ever worked in civil engineering, architecture, fashion, and universe, which clearly show Lu’s top talent with fluent and
stock trading and web linked e-business, but he never bold ink-brush stroke to paint his unique style of abstract beauty
abandoned his artistic passion.” All my interests in art, science philosophically with his intuitions about the origin of nature,
& technology, and philosophy come together in my artworks” life, and universe, in his own words that’s also “The Origin of

he explains. Since 2000, he’s returned to the art practice Abstract Intuition Art of Life and Universe”. In fact, to create
professionally in his Sydney studio and his artworks have been the unique artworks with artist’s own style, feature, signature,
exhibited, awarded, and collected globally at major world art and originality must be the characteristics and essence of any
fairs and galleries in Australia, China, Japan, USA, UK, Germany, great Master of Art of our time and in history! Besides, he also

France, Italy, Spain, Holland, Austria, Switzerland, Portugal, manifestoed “The Contemporary Art of Historical Positivism” in
Denmark, Ukraine, Russia, Sweden, Singapore, Hong Kang 2008, which has been accompanied by his ongoing “Dialectical
of China, Argentina, UAE, and Middle East. And his artworks Autobiographical Series of Global Life: The Zeal Studying Abroad
have also been broadly published by many international & The Waves Overseas Graduates Returning” since then.

publishers and digital media, including Condé Nast, a global
media company that produces some of the world’s leading Karl W. Lu was born in 1962, into a big renowned intellectual
print, digital, video, and social brands, such as Vogue, GQ, The and arts family for generations in the world cultural heritage city
New Yorker, Vanity, Architectural Digest (AD), and The World Hangzhou, China, where Lu’s parents spent their professional

careers at the China Academy of Art. His father was a professor
of Interiors.
TOP CONTEMPOR ARY ARTISTS Lu’s art style reflects his personal journey and respected and the editor of “An English – Chinese Dictionary of Fine Arts”
His grandfather was a Lord of Ju-Ren of the Qing-Dynasty, since
position within the early 1980’s Chinese Elite Student Movement
1949, he had also been a Vice Chairman of The Chinese People’s

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