ART CRITICISMS
1.“There is no doubt about it, Zhu Wei is one of the few best young artists in the northeast part of China with his professional qualities and potential abilities, we’re looking forward to his future development. …Zhu Wei is walking up to a new space.” (Yin Shuang-xi,“Art Critic”，CHINESE OIL PAINTING,1991)
2.“As a young academic leader, he is trying, further, to bring native and regional culture together and looking for the best meeting points of Chinese and the Western cultures on high quality of oil paintings.”, “Zhu Wei focuses on space’s simplicity which is limited, deep and summarized, not on space’s richness and mismatch which is different from Cubism. That is the contrary activity of returning to the original nature, and its academic art-purport means some famous artists such as Piero dellla Francesca, Jan Van Eyck in the early Renaissance.” “Just for his carrying of the traditional style and his independent thinking towards the modern oil painting’s artistic pursuit, this young artist is walking into a whole new world.” (Wang Li-ming, “Art Critic”,WEN BO ZHAI,1994)
3.“Zhu Wei’ brilliant and strong point is that he can easily demonstrate his high techniques while improving them when he is following the traditional realistic style. When he is dissatisfied with this level of work, it is not too difficult for him to find new paths in his creation, though he still needs to make a great effort when looking for his individual style in the theme, spirit, meaning and language of his works.” (Pro. Zhong Han, Chinese Central Academy of Art,SELECTED PAINTINGS BY ZHU WEI, 1995)
4.“Zhu Wei’s oil painting-<Landscape> evokes the possibility of a landscape of imagination filtered through his memories of China, and broken down into fractured marks of the palette knife.” (Louise Weinberg, Curator of the Flushing Biennial Art Exhibition, 2000)
5.“The artistic characteristic in his work is Abstraction in figuration, feeling in rationality and presentation of reappearance.” “Every highlight he added brought his paining closer to life. His art spoke volumes in a language everyone could understand.”(Pro.Joanie Goldberg,National Art League,Art Works,2001)
6.“Unlike other Chinese artists emerging from the same place and time in history , Wei Zhu approaches Western modernism cautiously,…his forms are always distinguishable and the emotional quality, cool. It is perhaps this conservatism and adherence to Chinese tradition that has made Wei Zhu revered in his homeland and popular among European collectors ”.“With the gates of China flung open and the path leading west, Wei Zhu has marched onward to join the American melting pot of exceptional artists in pursuit of truth and beauty. ”（Dr.Hwing-lih Chou,Curator of theNYU City College Museum，Along The Silk Road: The Tradition and the Elegance,2004）
7.“The rules he is complying with in his production of oil painting works are: adhering to the traditional restriction towards the contemporary art works, and also emphasizing on the contemporary art towards the traditional art’s development. Both of them are indispensable. The artistic characteristic in his art work is “abstraction in figuration” “feeling in rationality” and “presentation of reappearance”. He has been paying more attention to the sense of propriety and the appropriate measure while emphasizing the characteristics of painting language and is seeking the identity in contradictions.” (Pro.Rich Lontine , NY Rutherford Art Association, 2004)
8.“Zhu Wei's pieces are of a similarly hybrid nature, having affinities with post-impressionist and traditional Chinese landscape paintings.” “Zhu Wei's landscapes hold the viewer at a distance. Distinct enough to call to mind a quasi-familiar (past) world of rural villages and countryside’s, they are nonetheless too abstract for the viewer to locate himself in the world of the painting, as when viewing a Song Dynasty landscape. Yet even as Zhu's images situate the viewer at a geographical and historical distance, their thick textures traverse two-dimensionality, gesturing toward the viewer, intimating touch. This is not the tactility of emphasis; it is not the image in the painting reaching out to us, but the topography of the canvas itself. Zhu's landscapes exclude and distance the observer, but the unreachable distance between observer and image, viewer and referent, is traversed by the tangible terrain of the artistic medium.” (Pro. Nicholas A. Kaldis,Binghamton University, State University of New York, Trans-boundary Experiences: Zhu Wei,2006)
9. “Zhu Wei’s imaginary landscape painting freely straddles between representational and abstract, by transferring metaphorical landscapes inspired from his memory onto canvas, he captures and presents impressions crossing his past, presents, and maybe even future, in a melodious and poetic fashion, through the fragmented and shaggy representation of lines and colors....His art denies any generalized assumption about Chinese art and calls for respective and specific understanding.” (Dr. Meiqin Wang - Curator, Binghamton University, State University of New York, Ph.D. of Art History, Globalization, Asianization and Chinese individuals, 2006)
10. “During my many years of looking over artists' bios, never has there been page upon page crammed with exhibitions, honors and awards, title memberships and participations in collections that were so far reaching. We have been privileged to see some of his work right here at NAL. We've looked several times at his paintings... closer and closer to see the magnificent output of his gifted hands.” (Pro. Joanie Goldberg, National Art League, Art Works “Master Artist & Professor—Zhu Wei”, 2006)
11.“Zhu Wei responds in more abstract sense: .......Zhu by combining representational and abstract languages.”(Pro.Seokyung Han, Dr.Fumiwo Iwamoto, Dr.Meiqin Wang -Curator,2006)
12.“Professor Zhu Wei, master oil painter, once again treated our members’ night to his Zen like approach to painting. Prof. Wei, an accomplished artist and teacher from China holds many awards for his work and is exhibited worldwide.” (Michele Minor，National Art League,Art Works“Painting — A Worldwide Language”,2006)
13.“With seemingly crude brushstrokes, Zhu translates an artistic language of his own into worldly discretion that renders each of his paintings a sophisticated interpretation of fundamental questions that affect us all.” (Catherine Y. Hsieh-Art Critic NY ARTS“Social Crusader”,2008)