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Matthew Wong, The Kingdom, 2017 Oil on canvas, 121.9 x 182.9 cmLiz Lange and Davis Shapiro © 2024, ProLitteris, Zurich
Their artistic fraternity beyond time was as painful as it was colorful, leading to the same end because Wong, like Van Gogh, committed suicide.
Wong had come to painting like Van Gogh as an autodidact. He immersed himself desperately in Western art as in Chinese art, drawing inspiration from his soul brother Vincent as well as from Matisse, Klimt, Katz, Kusama and Shitao.
Wang put his dynamism and his highly evocative lyricism into his paintings in a sumptuous palette. A spiritual relative of Van Gogh, he shared with him significant mental disorders from a very young age.
