Cosmic Butterfly
Title: Cosmic Butterfly
"I have never limited myself to 'Eastern' or 'Western' standards of beauty. My standard of beauty comes from the beauty of the cosmic world in the infinity." - MW
© Smithsonian Institution, National Air and Space Museum
Smithsonian Institution, National Air and Space Museum, Washington D. C. April 15 to October 15, 2009
Universal Dimensions: The Space Art of Wang Ming
Title: Cosmic Butterfly
©Smithsonian Institution, National Air and Space Museum
"I am very happy this painting was selected to be in the exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution, National Air and Space Museum. If you look closely, you will find black crossed handprints in the painting.
The first pictograms of pre-historic man were of handprints. Handprints can be found on the inside walls of ancient caves or outside on natural rocks. These pre-historic pictures reflect the importance of man’s hands. Now we wonder what kind of life we would have without our magic hands. The modern man uses his hands for doing everything today.
In the center of the circle is the cosmic butterfly. As the cosmic butterfly flies into space, I too as an artist can fly anywhere I want.
The circle evolved later as a more advanced concept of early man. It is a most powerful idea of man. Gradually it guided modern man with technology and spirituality to carry man into a new space age."- Wang Ming
