While there are many painters I like, I would have to say that Wu Guanzhong is my personal favourite. There is something about his style sets him apart from other painters.
Wu Guanzhong's painting style can (describe) as a mix of Western and Chinese painting traditions. However, his style is very modern: many of his paintings (be) strikingly simple, but also very elegant.
Wu Guanzhong mastered the use white space. My favourite painting is this one, called Zhou Village, in which he used this technique very (effective). Like many of his other works, it's very stylish. Wu used a striking (combine) of black strokes (笔画) and white space to depict (描绘) traditional Chinese buildings in a water town. There is something beautiful and strange about the whitewashed (house) in the painting: they rise up like mountains. Perhaps he wanted to create impressive landscape painting to represent a simple small-town scene. The river is in the foreground (前景), and at (it) centre is a small bridge. When you look at the painting, it is as if you were about (cross) the bridge and enter another world.
