The Artist Project: Wenda Gu

Artist Wenda Gu reflects on Robert Motherwell's Lyric Suite in this episode of The Artist Project.

September 16, 2015

2 min. watch

From March 2015 to June 2016, we invited 120 artists—local, national, and global—to choose individual works of art or galleries that sparked their imaginations. In this online series, artists reflect on what art is, what inspires them from across 5,000 years of art, and in so doing, they reveal the power of a museum and The Met.

"It continues to evolve—another shape, another experiment—so there's a kind of life."

Wenda Gu reflects on Robert Motherwell's "Lyric Suite" in this episode of The Artist Project—an online series in which artists respond to works of art in The Met collection.

About the Artist
Wenda Gu, born in 1955 in Shanghai, is an artist who works in a variety of mediums, including painting and installation. He has become known for his use of bodily materials, human hair, and blood.

Hanging scroll with calligraphy characters drawn with ink

Gu Wenda (Chinese, born 1955)

The Mythos of Lost Dynasties-Form C: Pseudo-seal Scripture in Calligraphic Copybook Format, 1983–87

Hanging scroll, ink on paper; image: 24 1/4 × 36 7/8 in. (61.6 × 93.7 cm), overall with mounting: 53 1/8 × 41 5/8 in. (134.9 × 105.7 cm), overall with knobs: 53 1/8 × 44 3/4 in. (134.9 × 113.7 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Doris Dohrenwend, in memory of her mother, Gertrude Funke Dohrenwend, 2013 (2013.628) © Gu Wenda